blitz games:~10 minutes Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; Hanyu Pinyin: xiàngqí; Wade-Giles: hsiang-ch'i; ( listen)), is a two-player Chinese game in a family of strategic board games of which Western chess, Japanese shogi, and the more similar Korean janggi are also members. The character 象 xiàng here has the meaning "image" or "representational", hence Xiangqi can be literally translated as "representational chess". The game, however, is com ...

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Xiangqi - Openings
Xiangqi - History Xiangqi - Xiangqi tournaments and leagues Xiangqi - Rankings Xiangqi - Xiangqi and computers Xiangqi - Books Xiangqi - Notes

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In Europe and Asia there are significantly more xiangqi leagues and clubs than in the United States. Each European nation generally has its own governing league; for example, in Britain xiangqi is regulated by the United Kingdom Chinese Chess Association. Asian countries also have nationwide leagues, such as the Malaysia Chinese Chess Association in Malaysia. In addition, there are also several international federations and tournaments. For example, the Chinese Xiangqi Association hosts several tournaments every year, including the Yi ...

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In games such as chess, shogi, and xiangqi, a check is an immediate threat to capture the king (or general in xiangqi). A king so threatened is said to be in check. In friendly games, it is customary for a player checking the opposing king to warn the opponent by saying "check". In the following move, the player whose king is in check must get his king out of check. Either the threat must be stopped (by interposing a piece between the threatening piece and the king, or capturing the threatening piece) or the king must be ...

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Chaturanga is an ancient Indian game which is presumed to be the common ancestor of chess, xiangqi, shogi, janggi and makruk. It has been played since at least the seventh century A.D., and is popularly believed to be the oldest chess-like game. Chaturanga is the direct ancestor of shatranj which was the form that brought chess to medieval Europe. Chaturanga - Rules. Chaturanga was played on a 8x8 uncheckered board, called Ashtāpada. The board had some special markers, the meaning of which is unknow ...

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A chess variant is any game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect. The difference from chess can include one or more of the following: Different board (larger or smaller, another board form, e.g. hexagonal or circle). Fairy pieces, different from those used in chess. Different rules for capture, move order, game goal, etc. The national chess variants like xiangqi and shogi are traditionally also called chess variants in western world. They have many ...

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Chess variant - Chess-related national games Chess variant - Chess variants software

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David H. Li, born 1928 in Ningbo, China, moved to the United States of America in 1949. He currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland. After retirement from an accountancy and academic career, Professor Li has published a number of books in the English language on the culture of China, including translations of the Analects of Confucius, The Art of War, and Tao Te Ching, as well as several books on Xiangqi or Chinese chess. In his book "The Genealogy of Chess" (which won the Book of the Year 1998 award from the editors of GAM ...

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Xiangqi - Board. Xiangqi is played on a board that is 9 lines wide by 10 lines long. In a manner similar to the game go, the pieces are played on the intersections, which are known as points. The vertical lines are known as files, while the horizontal lines are known as ranks. With a few awkward substitutions, it is possible to play this game using a standard chess set. Centered at the first through third ranks of the board is a square zone also mirrored in the opponent's territory. The three ...

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Xiangqi plays faster than Western chess for several reasons. First, the barrier of pawns is reduced dramatically. Second, the cannons jump to capture, making them a long-range threat early in the game. In addition, since the general is confined to only moving within the palace, it can be checkmated more easily unless it is protected by other pieces. While in Western chess, the battle between opposing sides is concentrated in the middle few rows for the bulk of the game, this is not the case in xiangqi. The board is bigger than the Wes ...

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Chinese chess has a long history. Though its precise origins have not yet been definitely confirmed, our earliest indications reveal the game may have been played as early as the 4th century BC, by Meng Changjun for example. (See chess in early literature or timeline of chess.) Judging by its rules, we can conclude that the origin of Chinese chess was apparently closely related to military strategists in ancient China. The word xiàngqí's meaning "figure game" can also be treated as meaning "constellation game". It is believed ...

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Xiangqi - Notational system 1. The book The Chess of China[1] describes a notational system of absolute positional references in which the ranks of the board are numbered 1 to 10 from closest to farthest away, followed by a digit 1 to 9 for files from right to left. Both values are relative to the moving player. Moves are then indicated as follows: [piece name] ([former rank][former file])-[new rank][new file] Thus, the most common opening in the game would be written as:

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The board is composed of 90 intersections of 9 vertical files and 10 horizontal rows. The board is the same as that used in xiangqi, except that the janggi board has no "river" in the central row. The pieces, disks marked with an identifying character, are placed on the intersections of the lines (as in go). The sides are green (or blue), which moves first, and red. Each side also has a palace that is 3 lines by 3 lines (i.e. 9 positions) in the center of that side against the back edge of the board. < ...

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Janggi, Janggi - History, Janggi - Rules, Janggi - Pieces, Janggi - Ending the game, Janggi - Miscellaneous rules

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Early on, the pieces in European chess had limited movement; bishops could only move by jumping exactly two spaces diagonally (similar to the elephant in xiangqi), the queen could move only one space diagonally, pawns could not move two spaces on their first move, and there was no castling. By the end of the 15th century, the modern rules for the basic moves had been adopted from Italy: pawns gained the option of moving two squares on their first move and the en passant capture therewith, bishops acquired their modern move, and the queen was ...

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Chess, Chess - Introduction, Chess - History, Chess - Gameplay, Chess - Rules of chess, Chess - Strategy and tactics, Chess - Ways to play chess, Chess - Modern chess, Chess - Notation, Chess - Chess and education, Chess - Computer chess, Chess - Chess variants, Chess - Famous chess games, Chess - History of chess, Chess - World chess champions, Chess - Chess literature, Chess - Chess in the arts and literature

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Zillions of Games is so called because of its potential to play an infinite number of user-programmed games. Just for starters, it is shipped with over 200 games and puzzles. These include a lot of popular board games, such as Alquerque, Fox and geese, Go, Gomoku, Jungle, Halma, Nim, Nine Men's Morris, Reversi, Tafl and Tic-tac-toe. The package includes many checkers variants, for example Chinese, Russian and Turkish checkers. Besides standard FIDE chess, Zillions of Games contains many national chess variants such as Shogi, Xiangqi, Janggi, ...

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In abstract strategy games, players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used. List of board games - Classic two-player abstract strategy games. Alquerque Chaturanga and its descendants: Chess Jangki (Korean Chess) Makruk (Thai Chess) Shogi (Japanese Chess) Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Draughts or Checkers Fox and geese Go Gomoku Hnefatafl M ...

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Han then continued to lead his forces to press Xiang. According to a hypothesis by David H. Li, during a lull in the fighting in the winter of 204 BC-203 BC, Han developed the earliest form of the board game Xiangqi to prepare for an upcoming battle against Xiang (this game, Li argues, led to the origins of chess). With the severe defeats that he suffered on multiple fronts, Xiang sued for peace. In autumn 203 BC, he reached a peace treaty with Liu, setting the boundary of their principalities at Hong Canal (modern Jialu River), cedin ...

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Han Xin, Han Xin - Early life and career, Han Xin - Han's masterplan for Liu Bang, Han Xin - Northern campaign, Han Xin - Participation in the campaign of Xiang Yu's destruction, Han Xin - Demotion and death, Han Xin - Impact on Chinese history

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Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files), giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark, with each player having a light square at the near right corner when facing the board. Each player begins the game with 16 pieces which can move in defined directions (and in some instances, limited range) and can remove other pieces from the board: each player's pieces comprise eight pawns, two knights, two bish ...

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Chess - Modern chess Chess - Notation Chess - Chess and education Chess - Computer chess Chess - Chess variants
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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities. Smaller than 10-36 10-36 10-33 10-30 10-27 10-24 10-21 10-18 10-15 10-12 10-9 10-6 10-3 10-2 10-1 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 109 ...

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It is extemely difficult to classify fairy chess pieces at all, as more and more are invented by chess composers. A specialized solving program, WinChloe, recognizes more than 1200 different fairy pieces. Most (but not all) usual fairy chess pieces fall into one of three classes, although it should be noted that some are hybrid pieces (see the Chinese pieces, for example, which can move without capture as riders yet can only capture as hoppers). It is easy to create a new type of piece by simply combining the movement powers of two or more d ...

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It is extremely difficult to classify fairy chess pieces at all, as more and more are invented by chess composers. A specialized solving program, WinChloe, recognizes more than 1200 different fairy pieces. Most (but not all) usual fairy chess pieces fall into one of three classes, although it should be noted that some are hybrid pieces (see the Chinese pieces, for example, which can move without capture as riders yet can only capture as hoppers). It is easy to create a new type of piece by simply combining the movement powers of two or more d ...

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