Making Sense of Elephant Chess
<p>In parks across mainland China, it’s not uncommon to see retirees practising Chinese opera, taiqi, or playing chess or go. But the chess that they are playing is not on a 8x8 black and white board with kings, queens, rooks, knights, bishops, and pawns — but on a 9x10 grid with generals, advisors, elephants, horses, chariots, cannons, and soldiers.</p>
<p>This variant of chess, which is popular across East Asia, is known as 象棋 (xiàngqí) in Mandarin, 샹치 (Syangchi) in Korean, Shōgi in Japanese, and as cờ tướng (General’s Chess) in Vietnamese.</p>
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