Xiangqi with various new pieces
This article is about a collection of various Xianqi based games created by Vitya Makov. These games (with the eexception of modern Xiangqi) add an extra heavy piece in the mix with the goal of making the game more attacking. The first game invented was dragon Xiangqi, then sparrow Xiangqi, archer Xiangqi, then modern Xiangqi (which features two vaos), and finally maorider Xiangqi, which features the maorider piece initially invented by the author for maorider chess. To these Florea Aurelian has added fox Xiangqi which adds a fox (with the fox name also chosen by Vitya Makov) to the normal Xiangqi mix.
Setup
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Pieces
The usual xiangqi pieces are present in all of these games:
The royal wazir is the royal piece of the game. It moves and captures one square orthogonally and it cannot leave the palace.
The rook/chariot is the usual piece from xiangqi and orthodox chess.
The cannon/pao moves like a rook but must jump over a piece named platform in order to capture.
The horse/mao moves one step orthogonally, and cannot stop there, and then towards outside one diagonally. So it ends up on the squares where a orthodox knight would end up, but it can be blocked by and orthogonally adjacent piece.
The pawn/soldier moves and captures one square ahead in the home half of the board. After passing the river it can also move and capture one square sideways.
The elephant moves two squares diagonally and can be blocked by pieces diagonally adjacent. The elephant cannot cross the river.
The guard/ferz moves one square diagonally and it cannot exit the palace.
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Author: Aurelian Florea. Inventor: Vitya Makov and Aurelian Florea.
Last revised by Aurelian Florea.
Web page created: 2025-04-15. Web page last updated: 2025-04-30