The board, how every piece moves, the flying general, perpetual check and how a game ends.
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
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
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.
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