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Xiangqi


Xiangqi



Xiangqi board with pieces in their starting positions.

Players
2

Setup time
Under one minute

Playing time
Standard "home plays": around 30 minutes
Blitz games: up to 10 minutes

Random chance
None

Skills required
Tactics, Strategy




Xiangqi

Traditional Chinese
象棋

Simplified Chinese
象棋





[show]Transliterations

Mandarin

- Hanyu Pinyin
xingq

- Wade–Giles
hsiang4-ch'i2
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Cantonese

- Jyutping
zeong6 kei2
Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋) is a two-player Chinese board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, shogi and janggi. The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese chess in English. The first character 象 Xing here has the meaning "image" or "representational", hence Xiangqi can be literally translated as "representational chess". The game is sometimes called "elephant chess" after an alternative meaning of 象 as "elephant".
Harold James Ruthven Murray in his A History of Chess spelled its name as "Hsiang-k'i" (using the Wade-Giles Romanization system for Standard Mandarin), and translates 棋 more generally as "game": "the image game" (or "the elephant game"); the meaning of 棋 may have shifted down the centuries.
The game represents a battle between two armies, with the object of capturing the enemy's "general" piece. Xiangqi is one of the most popular board games in China. Distinctive features of Xiangqi include the unique movement of the pao ("cannon") piece, a rule prohibiting the generals (similar to chess kings) from facing each other directly, and the river and palace board features, which restrict the movement of some pieces.
Besides China and areas with significant ethnic Chinese communities, Xiangqi is also a popular pastime in Vietnam.

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