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.
Checkmate Patterns
A chariot next to the enemy general, a central cannon and your own general guarding the file combine into one of xiangqi's most elegant mates.
Xiangqi Rules
Every way a xiangqi game can finish: checkmate, the no-legal-move loss, resignation, agreed draws, lack of material, running out of time, and forbidden repetiti
Checkmate Patterns
How the chariot and the horse combine to checkmate a general inside its palace, why the palace-corner horse is so deadly, and how to set the pattern up in your
Xiangqi Rules
Why the two generals in xiangqi may never face each other on an open file, which moves this makes illegal, and how strong players turn the rule into a weapon.
Checkmate Patterns
The rule that generals may never face each other turns your general into an attacker. The mates and no-move wins that use it, and how to defend against them.
Checkmate Patterns
Two cannons stacked on the centre file can mate a general that still has every advisor and elephant. How the pattern works, why blocking fails, how to build it.
Checkmate Patterns
A horse on the enemy general's file with a cannon behind it gives a check that cannot be escaped. The pattern Vietnamese players call Mã hậu Pháo, and how to re