Is there a rule for repetitive forward and back play ?

What to do if you have a tiger jumping over and back a lake and a lion
doing the same thing nearby (going after it) :)

'Go' has a rule against this.

Viktor is right, twice. The Chinese name of the game is Dou Shou Qi meaning
'Game of fighting animals'.
And, true, there is a mistake in the given rules : a trap does not affect
at all a friendly piece. It only affects enemy pieces.

There is a very nice freeware-version of the Jungle Game by Peter Donnelly
at http://home1.gte.net/res1bup4/index.htm called Animal Game.
It has very nice graphics and you can play against a computer opponent
which has different skill levels. For Windows.

There is no such rule, many believed in such a rule, but in the newest version of the rules, this does not exist. However, some earlier versions of the game might have printed with this rule. Dog is ranked higher than wolf, whether that was a mistake, we'll have to stick with it.

The name of the game is Dou Shou Qi and not Shou Dou Qi.

Please get any Chinese-speaking person to look at a box with the title on it to verify this for you.

Many pictures of many different sets are available at the Board Game Geek entry for this game:

I hope the error can be corrected. The error here may have contributed to causing the error to be repeated at BGG (and possibily elsewhere), but fortunately that has been rectified. It would be nice if this page also showed the correct name of this game.

Regards,

Keng Ho

Basically, the game I am going to create will be called 'The War of the Animals: The Thousand Battles' and will star (unremarkably) Humans as commanders for Aslan and Sorcerers as commanders for Nemeroth. The game will involve the same physics as Dou Shou Qi and the same graphics (though not the same graphic nature) of Battlefield 2: Special Forces. I am hoping this game will at least garner as much attention as somehting like Rome: Total War or World of Warcraft.

Wish me luck!

I wonder why the name of the game in this page is not corrected as stated by many comments. It can be verified. Correct name is Doushouqi.
Shou dou qi is incorrect!

I concur with the below statements on the incorrect naming of the game.  

Also, I am quite fond of the first two pictures of the home made boards in the pictures.  Does anyone know how they were made?  I have a nice board for this game, as well, with some nice pieces.  

One of my favorite games, hands down.

Dog higher than wolf???
BTW, a jaguar is totally different from a leopard. It is as close to it as
it is to a tiger or a lion.

I came on this page by accident. After so many years, the name of this game is still wrong. It is Doushouqi, not Shou Dou Qi at all. And the comment about jaguar for leopard is absolutely right. The solution to avoid a L is to call this piece a Panther, panther or leopard is the same animal.

It appears this game is not on Richard's PBM server by any name provided. So, I removed that link.

I corrected the name and removed some dead links. This page would benefit from an update. If you're interested in providing a better page with better and more detailed graphics, you're welcome to.

OK, i will look what I can do. I shall have better graphics indeed. Till soon.

@Fergus: I've just sent you a zip with a new text and several illustrations to refresh this page. I sent it on your e-mail address at chessvariants.org box. Feel free to ask any question

I don't see it, and I may not have that address anymore. Please go to my profile and use the address provided there.

Ok. Re-done as you indicated.

Since what you sent me was not an HTML page with images embedded into it, I mixed what you had written in with what Hans had written, and I included selected photographs. I broke up the image of pieces into individual pieces so that it would flow better. I commented out most of what Hans wrote but left it on the page so that I can later check whether any of it should be included.

I have removed the See Also section, because the links are in the Related menu.

Nice page. Thank you.

Hello, this game has a subReddit (since june) : https://www.reddit.com/r/DouShouQi and a chatroom :

DouShouQi:matrix.org

accessible with opensource (web-based-)client Element.io We play at www.iggamecenter.com and welcome new players and interested persons.

The Wolf is ranked higher (stronger) than the Dog.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鬥獸棋

象>獅>虎>豹>狼>狗>貓>鼠

Elephant > Lion > Tiger > Leopard (Panther) > Wolf > Dog > Cat > Rat

I played this since childhood. This is the proper ranking of the animals.

The confusion about Dog > Wolf happened because on some of the cheap chess pieces, the wood carving of the Dog and the Wolf are almost identical.

This game is played with many variants, and even the Chinese Wikipedia page indicates a variant where Dog > Wolf. And also with Tiger > Lion. I prefer too playing with Wolf > Dog, but we should agree that it does not matter so much, the situations where Wolf encounters Dog are very rare.