Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Xiangqi1.JPG

Xiangqi board
Voting period ends on 9 Oct 2011 at 04:20:37 (UTC)
 * Reason:The best quality of any pictures in the same kind.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Xiangqi
 * FP category for this image:Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Entertainment
 * Creator:Trongphu


 * Support as nominator --Trongphu (talk) 04:20, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose -- The SVG image of the board used in the article is, in my opinion, superior to the photo. In the article, the photo is somewhat redundant. A better photo would be a nice snap of two Chinese people playing the game. Further, the image is cropped a little tight, and the gameboard could be set a little straighter & flatter for the photo. For a shot of a static item, I think it's rather ho-hum. JBarta (talk) 05:42, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Dull lighting and framing. I think something far better could be produced. J Milburn (talk) 15:27, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose It's under exposed, the surface behind (concrete?) needs to be something plain, perhaps white paper, the crop is too tight, and the barrel distortion is a bit disconcerting. JJ Harrison (talk) 00:14, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Jbarta summed it up well, and I would add that this should have been a well-made board (wood, traditional scroll, or whatever is commonly used by respectable players), not a cheap plastic item. This also looks like a miniature version to me, and the "barrel distortion" is simply because such boards are not perfectly rectangular when unfolded - because of the (invisible here) hinge along the middle line. Materialscientist (talk) 00:41, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I might point out that it is present on the vertical lines too. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:59, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey i'm having no problem with people "oppose" or saying that this image is not good enough but you can't insult the chess board. Tell you what most if not all people that play this chess never use any expensive board nor do they care if it's well-made board. There is no such thing as traditional scroll or board that commonly used by respective players. And as far as i know many "good" chess players, usually are elder (we called them master). Those elder are the best but nobody knows about them because they didn't participate in any competition, some of them are advisers for talented young chess player. They are usually using paper as a chess board. So consider my chess board is already a good standard. I'm sure that you have little knowledge or nothing about this so don't assume or speak something you don't know about. You could have accidently insult some Chinese and Vietnamese chess players and they will laugh at you. I'm speaking on behalf of a culture that this chess has been traditional play for thousand years and me myself have been playing it ever since i was little.Trongphu (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Please don't get insulted. I know first-hand the attitude of professional chess players to the board and pieces, and this is by no means limited to chess. For example (and here we go back to this board), pieces shouldn't be too small for comfortable grabbing and viewing, they shouldn't be too light (or they get scattered around). Plastic has low friction coefficient, and this doesn't seem like magnetic board (those are painted metal plates) meaning an awkward move can remove the game. Look at the images in chess - they are mostly large wood pieces with felt bottoms on a wooden board. Some sets contain plastic, but are still not miniature folding sets - those are widely produced, but are not used in competitions and are not representative examples. Yes, we played with one pencil, one eraser and a piece of paper when nothing better was available, and this might be added to some WP article :-), but not as an FP and not as a primary example of chess equipment. Materialscientist (talk) 06:22, 1 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose Reasons stated above. Overall poor quality image. JFitch   (talk)  11:43, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 05:45, 9 October 2011 (UTC)