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Tezhi Luzhanqi - Chinese army chess. Chinese strategic game.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Andy Thomas wrote on Tue, Mar 21, 2006 05:31 AM UTC:

i looked at this some more, and it looks like a variant... there are 6
naval type of ships, with gridpoints on the river and notation for the
spots where the ships set up... there are the barricades at the back of
the map, and the aircraft bases in the corners... this version i have has
a dual rail line across the river, rather than the 3 rail lines i see in
the picture...

oh... this one has the 9 different 'soldier' or 'army' type of pieces,
but only 1 of each of these... you can see that they have differing ranks
by the slightly varying pictures, but moreso by the obvious changes in
chinese characters from piece to piece... 

i looked at the pictures of the original game provided with the article
here and see that the pieces are wooden... 

these here are plastic...

anyway, what i have appears to be a variant on the same game... rail
lines, but not in the same locations... navies and naval movement added
in, with the same basic 'forts' and 'airbases' and 'depots' and
whatnot...

fascinating