Hopefully you can read my handwriting … it is not so clear always …
This game of mine has received features from many other board games such as Shogi (Japan) and Chinese chess (China). For example, if an agent is captured by another General, this agent becomes a double agent of the capturing army, but if this double agent is captured again it will be removed from the board. In Chinese chess there is a cannon, but in my game there is a sniper who can eliminate agents from far distance in the same way as a cannon can do in Chinese chess. The triangle design of the board and its places has been received from Henry Kissinger’s triangle thinking, trianglism or trilateralism. It is an advanced game similar to chess, but more complex.
I started developing this my game back in Aug 1999 in America, one of the original thoughts was that when I integrate strategic games from many different cultures in one game, my game, I can achieve something great, we all know that Henry Kissinger has liked to see him playing chess, but my original thinking was that if one masters the strategic games of different cultures, one can master these cultures as well, I do not know if I achieved something already. Well, 18 years has passed since the beginning of this development.
Henry Kissinger has had the same thoughts as I have had …
I just read this article about Kissinger’s thoughts, I had these original thoughts over ten years earlier, back in March 1999 Henry Kissinger’s office invited me to participate in his Ambassador program in China, but I did not have money to do so, but it is somehow funny that we have had the same thoughts …