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http://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html
http://www.xiangqiclub.com
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/6544/cccintro.htm
\_ thanks for the links. It's hard to remember all those
chinese characters (on the Chinese Chess sets)
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| www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html Skip to comments Xiangqi Chinese Chess Recognized Variant of the Month for October 2001. Twelve times per year we will select a Recognized Variant for special consideration. Its web page will be reworked and improved and a connecting link displayed on all of our CV Pages. We hope to encourage CVPhiles to read about, play and explore this featured variant. See also: Xiangqi FAQ Xiangqi Rules text only Essentials of Chinese Chess and of Korean Chess Photos of a magnetic Xiangqi set . Photos of a Xiangqi set with three dimensional pieces , instead of the usual flat disks. Different way of visualizing Xiangqi which may be easier for people knowing chess. Xiangqi Chinese Chess Home page Roger Hares page on Xiangqi Yahoos page on Xiangqi Roleigh Martins page on Chinese and Korean Chess Mindsports Olympiad . In Mandarin it is written as either Xiangqi, Xiang Qi or Hsiang-Chi and pronounced Shiang-Chi. In Cantonese it is written as Jeuhng Keih and pronounced Junk Kay. Of Chinas four traditional arts - qin music, hua brush painting, shu calligraphy and q strategy games - the latter term, qi, provides the final syllable of Xiangqi. There are, however, a few books available in English and other languages. The most obvious of these are shops in the Chinese districts of large cities. Often, such sets are quite cheap, consisting of a paper board and flat wooden counters inscribed with red and black pictograms. These traditional Chinese symbols may appear strange to the western eye, but can easily be recognized with a minimum of practice. Shop for Xiangqi related products Xiangqi Variants Rules The board The Xiangqi board is made up of ten horizontal lines and nine vertical lines. The verticals are interrupted by a central-horizontal void called a river . Each is distinguished by a cross connecting its four corner points . Xiangqi Chess pieces are played on line intersections which are called points . The above board shows various L-shaped markings in order to distinguish the setup points of Pawns and Cannons. Pieces Each player has the following pieces: 2 Rooks R or chariots 2 Knights N or horses 2 Elephants M or bishops or ministers 2 Mandarins G or advisors or assistants or guards 1 King K or generals 2 Cannons C 5 Pawns P or soldiers The Xiangqi array is shown below: Traditional Pieces . Cannons Pao The Cannon moves differently when it moves to capture than when it moves passively . The Cannon moves passively as an orthodox Rook The Cannon moves to capture as an orthodox Rook which is required to hop over a single screen . In other words, Cannons capture by hoping over a second piece in order to capture a third piece. For example, a Cannon on a1 can take a piece on f1 when exactly one of the points b1, c1, d1, or e1 is occupied by a piece of either color. You cannot check your opponent more than three times in a row with the same piece and same board positions. You cannot force an enemy piece to move to and from the same two points , indefinitely, in order to avoid capture. If you move a Rook to e5, threatening a Cannon on e6, and your opponents only viable move is Cannon to f6, then you cannot force that Cannon to and from e6 and f6 by moving your Rook to and from e5 and f5, indefinitely. The purpose of this rule and the above rule is to avoid perpetual-check draws. Some of these situations are complicated, but the person who is forcing the perpetual move must usually break it off. The game is a draw when neither side can force a checkmate or a stalemate . This game can be played via email on Richards Play-By-eMail Server . Shop More products are also available at: Yutopians Page for Chinese Chess . Link to site where you can play Banchi, a Xiangqi variant against a Java program. Certain parts of the text were taken from Steven Learys FAQ for Chinese Chess. Thanks also to Ivan A Derzhanski for corrections to the linguistic information on the word Xiangqi. Thanks to John William Brown for editing this page in response to Xiangqi being selected as Recognized Variant of the Month Thanks to Robert Price for pointing out an error in the Kings movement description WWW page created: July 1, 1996. The above was edited/posted by: John William Brown Created on: July 01, 1996 . Nederlandstalige website over Xiangqi Chinees Schaken Link Author: Bob Bekker A Western Xiangqi Board . Proposal to play Xiangqi on a westernized board Author: Kksal Karakus Xiangqi for Chess Players . Icons of Xiangqi pieces in Western style Author: Fergus Duniho National Standard Chinese Pieces for Chinese Chess and Variants . Icons for pieces of Xiangqi and variants using the official Red China standard font Author: Fergus Duniho Traditional Chinese Pieces for Chinese Chess and Variants . Icons of pieces for Xiangqi and variants using a Chinese font Author: Fergus Duniho Chinese Chess . Shows off new capabilities of the PBM Author: Fergus Duniho Handmade Magnetic Chinese Chess Set . Photos of Xiangqi set made from magnetic chess and checkers sets Author: Fergus Duniho Magnetic Xiangqi set . Photos of a Chinese Chess set made from poker chips and posterboard tiles Author: Fergus Duniho Xiangqi set . |
| www.xiangqiclub.com -> www.xiangqiclub.com/ Welcome to Club XiangQi, XiangQi game of elephants, or Chinese chess has been around for thousand of years. Due to the large influx of Asian immigration to Europe and North America, and recently, due to the growth of the internet, it has been spread out all over the world. Club XiangQi CXQ hopes to provide lasting contributions to the greater Xiangqi lovers community with a stable and friendly playing environment. Please login and enjoy this exciting game with other Xiangqi fans. |
| www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/6544/cccintro.htm Additionally, you could customize its appearances and abilities into a totally new one for your home pages. No installation, ready to run anywhere and any computer The Cafe Chinese Chess software is an applet. So it could be run without having to first download and install, as well as worrying about your computer platform. Just open a home page which embeds this software and it will be ready for you. Now, you can play Chinese chess on the WWW Unlike many pictures of Chinese chess games, this software can be interactive. It is easy for your readers to follow a game from beginning till end by clicking a button and the happening can be seen directly. Additionally, more than a viewer of games, it is a real Chinese chess program. You can play against a computer some levels are not easy to defeat. With increasing CPU speeds, the Java applets are becoming more competitive with platform specific applications. Very small, but full features The software is very tiny around 27 kilobyte. It is only two times as large as a gif picture of game board and much smaller than any familys photo. As a result, the time to download via Internet will be considerably short. Even though very small, the software provides many of the functions you are probably already familiar with, such as setting to play against a computer or human, undo, redo, reset, choice of strong level of computer, move list, and so on. Economic and effective After the first download very quickly, any other appearances of this program need not to be downloaded again it means free. If you want to introduce more than two board pictures, it is more effective to use this program for some reason: reducing the download times; It could display in totally different ways one program, many appearances. You can also set up sound, choose difficulty levels, change the kinds of notation, decide the game input methods by setting parameters or by reading from text files. You can see there are some ways for doing the same work - all for your convenience. There are many parameters which help you to choose the fittest display / program abilities / comfortable for your needs. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OF THIS SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR OF THIS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Development History 15/9/2000 Release the first version - 01 alpha. |
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