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    have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí; Wade–Giles: Hsiang ch'i; English: /ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/), commonly...
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    neutral (neither white nor black) pieces, knighted pieces, equihoppers, and xiangqi pieces. Shatranj pieces have been provisionally assigned for a future version...
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  • The World Xiangqi Championship is organised by the World Xiangqi Federation (WXF) and is held every two years since 1991. The inaugural edition took place...
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    Janggi (category Xiangqi variants)
    board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar to it, including the starting position...
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    international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess...
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    historians is that it is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese), makruk...
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  • The Chinese Xiangqi Association (Chinese: 中国象棋协会) was founded in 1962 as a member of the All-China Sports Federation promoting xiangqi, or Chinese chess...
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    recognises five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, draughts, Go and xiangqi. However, they limit the number of mind games which can be admitted as...
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    Sanguo Qi, Three Kingdoms Chess, or Three-Handed Xiangqi) is a three-player variant of the game xiangqi ("Chinese chess"). The game symbolizes the Three...
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  • Xiangqi at the 2022 Asian Games was held in Hangzhou Chess Academy also known as Hangzhou Qiyuan (Zhili) Chess Hall, Hangzhou, China, from 28 September...
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  • Ji Xiangqi (Chinese: 季缃绮; pinyin: Jì Xiāngqǐ; born October 1960) is a former Chinese politician and business executive. He was the Vice Governor of Shandong...
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  • women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64 women Go Puzzles Scrabble Sudoku Xiangqi Motorsport Other sports See also: World cups...
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    women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64 women Go Puzzles Scrabble Sudoku Xiangqi Motorsport Other sports See also: World cups...
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  • sits. The leaper's move cannot be blocked (unlike elephant and horse in Xiangqi and Janggi) – it "leaps" over any intervening pieces – so the check of...
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    chariot B 象 (xiàng) elephant N 馬 (mǎ) horse (P) 兵 (bīng) soldier 國際象棋 (guójì xiàngqí) international chess 將軍 (jiāngjūn) 將死 (jiāng sǐ) Czech K král king D dáma...
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    opera Melodious art Xiangsheng Acrobatic Performance and game Weiqi(Go) Xiangqi Folk art Ivory carving Traditional handicraft Peking duck manufacturing...
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  • of xiangqi have been developed over the centuries. A few of these variants are still regularly played, though none are nearly as popular as xiangqi itself...
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  • Sports Games in Beijing 2008 for contract bridge, chess, go, draughts and xiangqi many other bodies have lobbied for inclusion such as the International...
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  • chess (xiangqi i.e.象棋) pieces (instead of with the more traditional turtle shells or yarrow stalks used in I Ching divination). Twelve Xiangqi pieces...
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  • Xiangqi competitions at the 2023 SEA Games took place at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 12 to 15 May 2023. This was the second...
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    women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64 women Go Puzzles Scrabble Sudoku Xiangqi Motorsport Other sports See also: World cups...
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    vazīr in Persian and wazīr in Arabic. It has analogue to the guards in xiangqi. Rukh ("chariot"; from Persian رخ rokh) moves like the rook in chess. Pīl...
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  • The women's individual Xiangqi competition at the 2022 Asian Games took place at Hangzhou Qiyuan (Zhili) Chess Hall between 3 and 7 October. All times...
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  • The World Xiangqi Federation is the association of the national Xiangqi federations around the world, and has been a member of the International Mind...
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  • Look up Chinese chess or xiangqi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinese chess primarily refers to xiangqi, a two-player Chinese game in a family...
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    Emperor Wu belonged, in the 6th century CE. Yuwen Yong was a great fan of xiangqi, he wrote a book about it, Xiang Jing, in 569 AD. Consorts and Issue: Empress...
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  • Castling does not exist in Asian games of the chess family, such as shogi, xiangqi, and janggi, but it commonly appears in variants of Western chess. This...
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    includes some traditional Asian games of the chess family, such as shogi, xiangqi, and janggi (in fact these variants do not allow pawns to capture diagonally)...
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  • habit. However, Wang was very devoted to xiangqi. One day, while gathering garbage to sell, Wang met an old xiangqi master. Using the principles of Daoism...
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    the knight are found in almost all games of the chess family. The ma of xiangqi and janggi is slightly more restricted; conceptually, the piece is considered...
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