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Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.
In shogi, castles (Japanese: 囲い, Hepburn: kakoi, lit.: "enclosure") are strong defensive configurations of pieces that protect the king (Japanese: 玉).. While the English shogi term "castle" seems to be borrowed from the special castling move in western chess, shogi castles are structures that require making multiple individual moves with more than one piece.
The attached diagram shows the point at which Ponanza (Black) adopted a Quick-Attack Feint (亜急戦, akyūsen) Cozy castle strategy against a Fourth File Rook (by software NineDayFever, playing White) in the finals of the World Computer Shogi Championship. [4] (Quick-Attack Feint tactics involve pretending to go with a Quick Attack to push ...
While it looks shabby, the formation is low and the king has a wide escape route regardless of what side it is attacked from. According to Nakahara, it is less resilient than the Central House, but because it has the gold in the back rank, it is strong against rook drop attacks and against knight's attacks. In addition, thanks to the simplicity ...
Ranging Rook or Swinging Rook (振り飛車 furibisha) openings in shogi position the rook to the center or left of the player's board to support an attack there.. Ranging Rook strategies used in Ranging Rook vs Static Rook are among the oldest of shogi strategies attested in the historical documents that first describe the rules of shogi around 1600.
Shō shōgi (小将棋 'small chess') is a 16th-century form of shogi (Japanese chess), and the immediate predecessor of the modern game. It is played on a 9×9 board with the same setup as in modern shogi, except that an extra piece is placed in front of the king: a 'drunk elephant' that promoted into a prince, which acts like a second king.
Left Silver-57 Rapid Attack or Left Silver-5g Rapid Attack or Left Silver-5g Quick Attack (5七銀左急戦 go-nana gin hidari kyuusen) is a fast attacking strategy in shogi used with several different Static Rook openings often played by Black against Ranging Rook positions played by White. It is characterized by moving the left silver from ...
A 9×9 version of this game known as "Dobutsu shogi in the Greenwood" (in Japanese: おおきな森のどうぶつしょうぎ ōkina mori no dōbutsu shōgi, lit. Animal Shogi in big forest), which is identical to shogi, has been launched. The game features new pieces and since the board is large, the movements of the Elephant and Giraffe ...