Rosewood Xiangqi

A rosewood board, its river worn pale between the Chu and Han banks where generations of hands have reached across. The pieces wait in their camps: one general behind its advisors, chariots on the flanks, cannons a step forward.

Xiangqi (Chinese chess, cờ tướng) against the computer at five levels or a friend online, with piece lessons, 50 mating problems and a daily problem.

Pick Match or Lessons and problems on the title screen. In a match choose Red or Black and a level from 1 to 5; Red moves first. Tap a piece to see its legal moves as dots, then tap a point to move there, or drag the piece. The general and advisors stay in the palace, elephants never cross the river and are blocked by a piece on the point between, the horse is blocked by a piece next to it, the cannon captures only by jumping exactly one piece, pawns step sideways once across the river, and the two generals may never face each other on an open file. You win by checkmate, or when your opponent has no legal move at all. The third repetition of a position ends the game: a side that gave check with every move of the cycle loses, so does a side that kept chasing an unprotected piece, and anything else is a draw. Sixty moves each without a capture, or no attacking pieces left on either side, is a draw. Threats turns on the threat view: dots turn green where the piece is safe and red where it can be taken, and rings mark your pieces under attack. Undo takes back your move and the computer's reply, Hint shows the move the computer would play. In Lessons and problems, the first chapter teaches each piece and the next five hold 50 problems where Red wins within a set number of moves against the best defence; a wrong move is shown with the reply that escapes and taken back. Hard mode removes the move dots, the threat view, Undo and Hint, and in problems one wrong move ends the try. To play a friend, choose Play with a friend, create a game and send the link.