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How To Play Chinese Chess? - Read Here January 10, 2022
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Table of content: Understanding the board Arrangement All about the Pieces Important Rules of the Game What games are available on GetMega? Chinese Chess or Elephant Chess is also called Xiangqi, pronounced as shyahng chi. It originates from the same family of Chanturanga and International Chess. This two-player board game of China chess has been played for centuries in China and other Asian countries, recently also in the West and today has become one of the most popular board games in the world.
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of real-money games and challenging contests on GetMega. Chinese chess is regarded as a good game for players who love strategy and mastery of endgame methods. China chess is more or less similar to international chess, except for the different pieces and different rules of movement. So, let’s learn how to play Chinese black and white chess—
Understanding the board Xiangqi also has a two-player chessboard that has 9 vertical lines or files, and 10 horizontal lines or ranks. Unlike in western chess, the chess pieces in China chess are placed on line intersections, and not in squares. On each side of the board, against the back edge, there is a palace or a castle 宮 . There are two zones centering at the first to third and eighth to tenth ranks of the board, each of these zones has three points by three points, that are demarcated by two diagonal lines connecting opposite corners and intersecting at the center point, forming an ‘X’ shape. Dividing the two opposite sides of the board between the fifth and sixth ranks is Chǔ Hé 楚 河 , known as River of Chu and Hàn Jiè 漢界 , meaning Border of Han, referring to the Chu-
Han War. Even though the river or the border creates a divide between the two sides, only two pieces from China chess are affected by it. The soldiers gain more advantages in their movements after crossing the river, and elephants are not allowed to cross it. On some boards, the starting points of the soldiers and cannons are marked with small crosses.
Arrangement Like in standard chess, each piece has a designated place on the board, in Chinese chess. So begin by placing all your pieces in their correct positions. Remember, the pieces in China chess go on the intersections, and not on the squares.
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