Xiangqi Rules
A complete beginner's guide to xiangqi rules: the board and river, the palace, how each piece moves, check and checkmate, and what makes it different from chess
For Chess Players
If you play chess, you are closer to xiangqi than you think. What transfers directly, which habits will cost you games, and a two-week plan to get going.
For Chess Players
Chess instincts cause predictable xiangqi mistakes: blocked horses, cannon screens, pinned pieces between the generals. The ten most common and their fixes.
For Chess Players
The cannon moves like a rook but captures by jumping over exactly one piece. How it works, why it is so strong early, and the counting habit that tames it.
For Chess Players
In xiangqi a player with no legal move loses; there is no stalemate draw. How this rule wins endgames that chess would call drawn, and how to avoid it.
For Chess Players
The river and the two palaces are the board features chess does not have. Which pieces they restrict, why it matters, and how to use them in your games.
Xiangqi Rules
Learn xiangqi notation in ten minutes: WXF piece letters, file numbers from each player's side, the plus, minus and equals signs, and the Vietnamese version.
Xiangqi Rules
Xiangqi forbids endless checking and endless chasing by one side. The core ideas behind the repetition rules, the common cases, and how casual games handle them
Xiangqi Rules
Exactly how each xiangqi piece moves and captures: general, advisor, elephant, horse, chariot, cannon and soldier, plus the blocking rules that trip up beginner
Beginners
New to xiangqi? A step-by-step path: learn the board, the moves and the blocks, play short games, understand the opening, and win your first real game.
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
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.