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[[FILE:Xiangqi Board.svg|border|right|thumb|Xiangqi board, with pieces in their starting positions <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi Xiangqi from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Chinese Chess''', or '''Xiangqi''' 象棋 <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chinese-chess/gcreEzzU3yQ/HvWOlP7yaYkJ Xiang Qi Is Not The Elephant Game] by Stephen Leary, [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chinese-chess]], November 18, 1994</ref>,<br/>is a chess variant which is very popular in east East Asia, specially especially in China and Vietnam. The Chinese Chess set includes a board and 32 pieces for two players. The board has ten horizontal lines called [[Ranks|ranks]] and nine vertical lines called [[Files|files]]. Pieces are located not in the cells but intersectional points of ranks and files which are 90 in total. In the middle of the board the central seven files are interrupted by a horizontal space called the “River”, which splits the board into two parts. <span id="Palace"></span>Each side of the board has a “Palace” a 3x3 area in the central base. The seven kind of pieces are placed on the intersections and move and capture according to their individual ability and restriction along the lines including the “River banks”. The two sides are usually distinguished by colorcolors, being traditional names are red or black <ref>[[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tai-Ning Yang]], [[Shun-Chin Hsu]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220174553_Computer_Chinese_Chess Computer Chinese Chess]''. [[ICGA Journal#27_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/223d/ef59c884503f18610bba314034157f55aacd.pdf pdf]</ref> but now they can be called white and black as chess. Sometimes the Xiangqi board could be considered as the presentation of the war between two countries when the standard chess presents for a battle only.
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* [[Banqi]]
* [[Jeiqi]]
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=[[Computer Olympiad|Computer Olympiads]]=
* [[Pham Hong Nguyen|Nguyen Hong Pham]] ('''2018'''). ''A completed implementation for Xiangqi rules''. [[ICGA Journal#40_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3]]
* [[Ting-Yu Lin]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tsan-sheng Hsu]] ('''2018'''). ''The number of effective moves for Chinese chess''. [[CG 2018]], [[ICGA Journal#40_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4]]
* [[Wen-Jie Tseng]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[I-Chen Wu]], [[Tinghan Wei]] ('''2018'''). ''Comparison Training for Computer Chinese Chess''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07411 arXiv:1801.07411]
==2020 ...==
* [[Maximilian Langer]] ('''2021'''). ''Evaluation of Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Xiangqi''. B.Sc. thesis, [[Darmstadt University of Technology|TU Darmstadt]], [https://ml-research.github.io/papers/langer2021xiangqi.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67877 Xiangqi evaluation] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[CCC]], July 01, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69386 A proposal for Jeiqi notation] by [[Pham Hong Nguyen|Nguyen Pham]], [[CCC]], December 26, 2018
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76400 Xiangqi chess engine in javascript - YouTube tutorial series] by [[Maksim Korzh]], [[CCC]], January 24, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76391 Did anyone write a xiangqi chess engine?] by [[Maksim Korzh]], [[CCC]], January 27, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76430 Chinese chess Xiangqi perft results] by [[Maksim Korzh]], [[CCC]], January 27, 2021 » [[Chinese Chess Perft Results]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76464 Wukong Xiangqi - Chinese chess engine] by [[Maksim Korzh]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80642 SEE test suite for Xiangqi (Chinese chess)] by [[Pham Hong Nguyen|Nguyen Pham]], [[CCC]], September 08, 2022
=External Links=
* [http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/XQ.html XiangQi (Chinese Chess)] by [[Harm Geert Muller]]
: [http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/XQwinboard.html WinBoard and XiangQi] by [[Harm Geert Muller]]
* [http://lpforth.forthfreak.net/endgame-en.html Chinese Chess Endgame Databases Query System] by [[Jih-tung Tung Pai]]
* [http://www.xqbase.com/protocol/cchess_ucci.htm 中国象棋电脑应用规范(五):中国象棋通用引擎协议] Universal Chinese Chess Protocol (UCCI)
* [http://www.xqbase.com/league.htm 电脑象棋联赛 - 象棋百科全书 - Computer Chess League - Chess Encyclopedia]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3g2wxFLTVY&list=PLmN0neTso3Jw59oLgLUwSTZ_AO_u-pwWt Discovering Chinese chess Xiangqi to create game engine for it] by [[Maksim Korzh]], January 22, 2021, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Videos
==Source Code==
* [https://github.com/NeymarL/ChineseChess-AlphaZero GitHub - NeymarL/ChineseChess-AlphaZero: Implement AlphaZero/AlphaGo Zero methods on Chinese chess] » [[AlphaZero]]
* [https://github.com/maksimKorzh/wukong-xiangqi GitHub - maksimKorzh/wukong-xiangqi: Didactic Chinese chess Xiangqi engine] by [[Maksim Korzh|Code Monkey King]]
==Xiangqi Cloud Database==
* [https://www.chessdb.cn/query_en/ Xiangqi Cloud Database Query Interface] by [[Bojun Guo|noobpwnftw]]
=References=
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