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Xiangqi ( / ˈʃɑːŋtʃi /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí ), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess. Besides China and areas with ...
Xiexiemaster. Xiexiemaster, or simply Xiexie, is a strong xiangqi (Chinese chess) program created by Pascal Tang in 1998. At the beginning, as the program was located in France, it was difficult to find high-class Chinese chess players. Finally, some European top players accepted to challenge the software (Hua Say Ty, Woo Wei Cheung, and Dang ...
Universal Chinese Chess Interface (UCCI), a dialect for xiangqi. [7] Each of these protocols may also define variants of Portable Game Notation (PGN) and Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN). The XBoard CECP is said to require far fewer changes to support variants. [5]
Many variants of xiangqi have been developed over the centuries. A few of these variants are still regularly played, though none are nearly as popular as xiangqi itself. A few of these variants are still regularly played, though none are nearly as popular as xiangqi itself.
Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins) [8x8]: Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [ 6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) [6x6]: Played on a 6×6 board without bishops.
Game of the Three Friends ( Chinese: 三友棋, Pinyin: Sān-yǒu-qí ; also called Sanyou Qi or Three Friends Chess) is a three-player variant of the game xiangqi ("Chinese chess"). It was invented by Zheng Jinde ( Chinese: 鄭晉德, Zhèng Jìndé) during the Qing dynasty (1661–1722 AD). The game symbolizes the Three Kingdoms period war ...
Huang Xinzhai, the young player from Shanghai, scored historic win against Zagorovsky in 6th round, which was the only Chinese success in the whole match. Huang Xinzhai was a fan of xiangqi since his childhood and he won in 1957 the Shanghai Secondary School Xiangqi Championship. He learned chess from Xie Xiaxun (Centenarian Xiangqi King) and ...
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