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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by taejo on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:27AM (#10993669)
But not as popular as Chinese chess (xiangqi) as a game people actually play, though. Go might be more popular than xiangqi as a spectator sport; I don't know.
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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by xcombelle on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:02AM (#10994567)
I have some doubt that Chinese chess is popular in Japan and Korea
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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by taejo on Sunday January 31, 2016 @06:19AM (#11006055)
I was responding to a comment specifically about China.

Actually Janggi, the Korean variant of Chinese chess (yes, there are some rule differences, but it's recognizably the same game - like Chess without castling and en passant) is very popular, though according to Wikipedia currently less so than Go.

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