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CHINESE CHESS MASTER USER'S MANUAL |
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Introduction |
Chinese Chess, or Xiangqi, is one of the oldest and most popular board games in the world. Both Chinese Chess and International Chess are believed to have evolved from the original Indian chess game called Chanturanga.
Chinese Chess uses pieces similar to those of International Chess. However, the variations in the pieces, their movements, and the board layout make Xiangqi an exciting and challenging alternative to its cousin.
- Support new play mode: Human with Human via wifi network.
- Full undo-redo function with unlimited moves.
- Option to shake phone to Flip board on Human-Human mode
- Option to show legal moves
- Option to show last move
- Support Hint moves
- Fix bug on conflicting with playing music.
- New languages supported: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian...
This section describes the Chinese Chess board and pieces.
The Chinese Chess playing board is
8x9 squares, but pieces occupy the line intersections, or "points", not the
centers of the squares. This makes the playing board 9x10 points, which is
considerably larger than a normal chess board.
The board features two opposing palaces and a river that separates them. These
landmarks affect the movement of certain pieces.
General
The general is like the king in chess; when he dies, the game is over. His moves are limited to single horizontal and vertical steps within the palace. Under normal checking rules, it is illegal for the two generals to face each other without any other pieces in between them. (I.e. they can attack each other when they have a clear line of sight between them. Such an attack is called a "flying general." This is only possible in Qianhong when playing with "suicide moves" enabled.).
Advisor
The general's advisors (or guards) move diagonally within the palace, one step at a time. The two advisors can defend each other to form a strong defense around the general.
Elephant
The elephant moves diagonally two steps at a time. It cannot cross the river, nor can it move past a piece that blocks its first step. Two elephants can protect each other for a strong defense.
Horse
he horse is nearly identical to the knight in chess. It moves one step along a line, then one step diagonally. The exception is that it cannot move if a piece is blocking its first step.
Chariot
The chariot is identical to the rook in chess. It moves multiple steps at a time either horizontally or vertically. It is considered the strongest piece in Chinese Chess
Cannon
The cannon moves like the chariot with one exception: it can only attack by jumping over another piece (of either color). Its long range makes it strong, but the fact that it needs to jump another piece to attack can be a weakness at times. Moving a cannon to the center line is a common opening move
Soldier
The soldier, or pawn, only moves one step at a time. It can only move forward before crossing the river. Once it has crossed the river, it can also move side to side, but not backward. It does not attack diagonally like its western chess counterpart.
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Start a New Game |
To create a brand new game, Select Menu >> New Game., then select scales of difficulty (Expert, Master, Hard, Normal, Easy) and different kinds of opponents (man or computer).
To play with your friends via wifi, Select Menu > New Game, then choose Human-Human (Wifi) mode, press Play button and then wait for your friends join.
If between you and your friends don't have an unfinished game, a brand new game is created. The first player of the game is person who go to wifi mode earlier.
If between you and your friends have an unfinished game, Chinese Chess Master will ask you or your friend to continue play the game. (Chinese Chess Master ask only one person who is server).
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Posture |
This is an useful function when you want to play an arranged chess game. To play an postured game, you must take chess pieces and create posture after selecting this function.
Note: You can save postured game use Save funtions.
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Save/Load Game |
Save: To store the game you are playing, click Menu >> Save, then choose a filename and click Save. To withdraw the act, click Menu.
Load: To load a game which has been saved before and to solve with the game you are playing.
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Undo & Redo |
Since version 2.0, undo & redo functions allow user undo or redo unlimited moves.
Hint function will provide you a good move if you request.
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History |
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Settings |
To select skins or turn sound on/off, Go to Menu >> Setting.
Since version 2.0: Chinese Chess Master allows you enable some assist functions
on Settings View including:
+ Shake phone to Flip board.
+ Show last move.
+ Show legal moves.
+ Choose your languages.
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