Checkmate Patterns
Advisors and elephants protect the general, yet in many xiangqi mates they are what traps it. The smothered patterns and how to avoid building your own cage.
Endgames
A lone chariot beats a general with two advisors or two elephants, but usually not the full set of four defenders. Here is why, and the practical plans for both
Endgames
In the endgame the cannon runs out of screens. Why cannon and general alone cannot beat a bare general, and how keeping one advisor changes everything.