Top 5 Chess Games In China

Chess is a very popular puzzle game in China. Through careful thinking on the board, you can play against your opponents. Although the chessboard is small, the pattern on the chessboard is huge. Big thinking can be seen on this small chessboard. China has a long history of chess, and ancient Chinese people used chess to pass time and communicate. In China, there are 5 major chess categories that are the most popular.

1. Chinese Chess 中国象棋

Top 5 Chess Games In ChinaChinese chess has a long history. After nearly a hundred years of practice, chess was finalized into a modern model at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty: 32 chess pieces, a chessboard with a river boundary, and a chessboard in the nine palaces, etc. During the Southern Song Dynasty, chess became a very popular chess activity. Chinese chess is rooted in the folks and should be the most popular chess game in China.

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2. Gobang 五子棋

Gobang is a pure strategy chess game in which two players play against each other. It is one of the traditional black and white chess types that originated in ancient China. Developed in Japan and popular in Europe and America. Easy to learn, suitable for all ages, and interesting and fascinating, not only can enhance thinking ability, improve intelligence, but also rich in philosophy, which helps self-cultivation.
The pieces of traditional gobang are divided into black and white, and a 19×19 board is used. The pieces are placed on the intersection of the board lines. The two players play a game, each holding the same color, taking turns to take the next one. The first player to connect 5 or more pieces of the same color with horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines into an uninterrupted row is the winner. Because traditional gomoku cannot be moved or taken away after the move has been placed, the game can also be played with paper and pen.

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3. Go 围棋

The four great arts of ancient China, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, have a long history and a long history. The chess among them is Go.
The art of Go is ever-changing and has an enduring charm. This is the reason why it has been loved by people for thousands of years. As a science, Go can maximize the development of intelligence, enlighten thinking, exercise the mind, and cultivate sentiment.
In the game of Go, the creation of thinking in images and logical thinking is included. It can enhance mechanical memory and comprehension memory, and it can improve people’s computing skills.
Go is a traditional Chinese chess game, which has been widely spread as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. In each dynasty, many talented Go masters have emerged, and there are many moving and beautiful Go history stories. These are the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people in ancient my country.

4. Army chess 军棋

Military chess is one of the most popular chess games in China. When there are four, the four will occupy the four corners of the board and divide into two. The two opposing two will unite and fight against the other two, and fight with each other; when the two are playing, they will occupy the upper and lower corners of the board and fight each other. .
There are three ways to play military chess. One is dark chess (the chess pieces stand up), and the two confront each other, and a referee is required; the other is open chess;

5. Checkers 跳棋

Checkers, also known as checkers, is a two-person board game. The player’s pieces are all along an oblique angle. The pawn can jump over the opponent’s pawn and eat it.
Its history is longer than that of chess, and its ancestor is the checkers of the Middle East. There are many ways to play checkers. The most popular form of the game is Polish checkers known as Hundred Checkers, followed by English checkers.
There have been many mathematicians, computer experts and British checkers experts researching programs to crack checkers. Until July 2007, Canadian computer scientists officially announced that British checkers had been thoroughly researched, and the program was called Chinook.
They stated that the program can find the best move for the game. If both players play according to this best move, the game will end in a tie. But more changes in Polish checkers, Canadian checkers and other checkers have yet to be cracked.