Chess
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Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king
Part of a Staunton chess setLeft to right: white king, black rook, black queen, white pawn, black knight, white bishop
Setup at the start of a chess game
Public chess tables in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Men playing chess, Kutaisi, Georgia, 2014
Xiangqi
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Xiangqi, commonly known in the West as Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Wes
Chess
…of chess dates back to the emergence of chaturanga in 7th-century India. Chaturanga is also thought to be an ancestor of similar games like janggi, xiangqi, and shogi. After its introduction to Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end…
Xiangqi is a popular weekend activity in Beijing.
Xiangqi game pieces dated to the Northern Song dynasty