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This game was very popular among students in 1990s. The name is 'Lu Zhan
Qi' or 'Jun Qi', and 'Te Zhi' is just an adjective meaning made
special. But today in China very few people play this variant, because in
the last decade a four-player variant has become more and more pupolar on
internet. This four-player variant is called 'Si Guo Jun Qi', which means
army chess for four countries. Its rules are the same to the 2nd variant
mentioned in this page except that 1) the two players sitting opponent each
other are partners and the board is made in shape of a cross to fit four
players; 2) if a player's flag is taken, all of his pieces are eliminated
and the winning condition is taking two enemies' flags. With the help of
computers we don't need a referee now, so it's far more popular than Lu
Zhan Qi was in 1990s.

Supplements to the rules in this page: there are refuges on the board (the
circulars), in which pieces can't be attacked.

Seriously I doubt if games like stratego, 'Lu Zhan Qi' and 'Dou Shou
Qi' can be considered as chess variants. Of most of chess variants a
common feature is that different pieces just move and capture in different
ways but they can capture each other. Of stratego, 'Lu Zhan Qi' and 'Dou
Shou Qi', a common feature is that different pieces move almost the same
but only higher pieces can capture lower pieces.