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# Chinese artist places regional chess variants in a 3D-printed context
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/chinese-artist-places-regional-chess-variants-3d-printed-context/
- Published: 2014-07-22T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:01.000Z
- Description: Nova Jiang explores the many ways that versions of chess are loved in her home country and elsewhere.
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, chess, Enjoy Public Gallery, Makruk, Nova Jiang, Shatar, Shogi, Xiangqi, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

How many different versions of chess are there in Asia?

Unlike Western chess, many of these Asian games are hardly known outside of their region, but artist [Nova Jiang ](http://www.novajiang.com/?ref=killscreen.com)wants to change that. For *[Orthogonal/Diagonal](http://www.novajiang.com/projects/orthogonaldiagonal/?ref=killscreen.com)*, an exhibition at [Enjoy Public Art Gallery](http://www.enjoy.org.nz/?ref=killscreen.com) in Wellington, New Zealand, she treats each version of chess as varietal of the same ancient system. The catch is that she’s 3D printed the pieces for games like Thailand’s [Makruk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruk?ref=killscreen.com), Mongolia’s [Shatar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatar?ref=killscreen.com), and her home country of China’s [Xiangqi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi?ref=killscreen.com).

By treating each one of these games as part of the same lineage of chess, Jiang hopes to reimagine the games as objects of sculpture, but of related kinds; siblings separated at birth. And by redesigning the pieces with a new technology like 3D printing, she’s forcing players to engage with these systems both as object and as practice. So much so, she held tournament for all eight versions.

*You can see more of Nova’s work [here](http://www.novajiang.com/?ref=killscreen.com).*

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tournament_amanda_rogers1.jpg)

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2_installation.jpg)

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10_shatranj.jpg)