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Hope I still get to put in my 2 cents worth even after rating the article Good. First of all, a big thank you to the contributor(s) for helping me understand what I think is the most perplexing move in Chinese Chess. I tried Google-ing (search term: 'playing chinese chess' for resource and somewhere at the top was a homepage by a certain Samantha Au of Western Michigan University. It turned out to be extremely terrible, filled with typos and served only to confuse and misguide rather than inform. <p>Anyway, I later stumble upon chessvariants.com and all problems solved!!! :)The only thing that irks me is the use of the term 'Mao'. I mean, where on earth did it com from? In what is by far the most common of Chinese dialects, both in Mandarin and in Cantonese the character on the chesspiece is pronounced as 'ma', though the intonation differs slightly between them. Perhaps the 'version' in the chessvariants.com's article is used because the author's inability to differentiate its actual meaning and pronunciation from the infamous China Chairman? Dude, those 2 are not related in any way!!