1 What is Chinese Chess?

Chinese chess is a chess-like game which is especially popular in the Far East: China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, etc. The strongest players and tournaments can be found in these countries. As would be expected, most of the materials published on Chinese chess are written in the languages of this region: most notably, Chinese and Vietnamese. As Asians continue to immigrate to Europe and North America, the level of Chinese chess skill on these continents can be expected to improve and more materials should become available in western languages, such as English, French, and German. Also, more westerners should be expected to become interested in the game and improve their level of expertise.

Estimates of the total number of Xiangqi players around the world run from a conservative 100 million to well over 500 million.

Chinese chess is NOT any of the following games: Shogi, Japanese chess, go, wei chi, weiqi, Chinese checkers, western chess, Korean chess, Thai chess, Makrook, Malaysian chess, Mah Jong, Sic bo, Pai gow.

HISTORY

Under development.

2 What does the board look like?

3. What are the pieces?

Each side has the following pieces (familiar Chess-type English names):

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