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Western Xiangqi Board is a miscellaneous item. It is categorized as: Oriental, XiangqiBased.

A Western Xiangqi Board. Proposal to play Xiangqi on a `westernized' board.

Author: Köksal Karakus.

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The board used for this game has 10 row(s), 9 column(s), 90 cells/squares.

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Yevgeniy Sova wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2022 08:27 AM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★

Added Westernized board and pieces for Xiangqi to the Wikipedia article.

ricardo wrote on Fri, May 1, 2015 03:11 AM EDT:Average ★★★

I like play with westernized pieces, the chinese characters are small, difficult to see. Now I'm making fast progress with it, doing in playok xiangqi web playing online.

Daniil Frolov wrote on Tue, Jan 21, 2014 06:59 AM EST:

In my opinion, for better visualization for western begginers, rather than traditional black-and-white checkering, board need special marking for squares, accesible by elephants. And different marking for advisors. And advisors should not resemble queens (unless if player, being new at Xiang-Qi, is not new at Shatranj).

Of course, it is not needed if one already visualize it well. My own prefrence is traditional board.

Joe Joyce wrote on Tue, Oct 5, 2010 02:18 PM EDT:

Mats, I applaud your position. I just don't hold with it for everyone. Many enjoy the traditions; it gives them a connection to the game on a second level and provides a richer and deeper experience for them. Others, myself among them, don't see it that way. I will likely play XiangQi a limited number of times, and not at the highest level, so the investment of time and effort is not worth it to me now. If I were to enjoy it a lot and become good, then I would likely learn the Chinese pieces because that would open up a new world of players for me, living in greater NYC. Barring that rather unlikely circumstance... Please note I do not disparage either position. I do however prefer my own. :)

M Winther wrote on Tue, Oct 5, 2010 11:25 AM EDT:

I think Xiangqi should be played with traditional Chinese pieces. I bought a wooden set on Ebay. It was very cheap. After a while they are easy to understand because chess thinking is really very abstract. I think one should keep to traditions that are thousands of years old. It adds to the dimension of Chinese chess. However, this set of yours could be used for chess variants.
/Mats

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