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中国象棋Xiangqi · Chinese Chess

A board divided by the river, a studio scented with bamboo

Play xiangqi online with friends and rivals, challenge the AI, and crack classic endgame puzzles. Anytime, anywhere — a good game is always waiting.

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iOS · Android · Web — coming soon

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Opening demo · Central Cannon vs. Screen Horses

  1. 1.C2=5H8+7
  2. 2.H2+3R9=8
  3. 3.R1=2H2+3
  4. 4.P7+1P7+1

Features

Four Pleasures of the Studio

Play, train, solve, learn — beginner or veteran, everyone finds their own game here.

  • Play Online

    Get matched instantly with players at your level and watch your ranking climb — or invite a friend to a private game.

    • Instant matching
    • Ranked ladder
    • Play with friends

  • Train with AI

    From first steps to master strength, pick from multiple difficulty levels. After every game, the AI reviews it move by move, pointing out brilliancies and mistakes.

    • Multiple levels
    • Move-by-move review
    • Best-move hints

  • Endgame Challenges

    Seven Stars Gathering, Wild Horse Ploughing the Field… a curated collection of classic endgame compositions, with a new puzzle every day.

    • Classic compositions
    • Daily puzzle
    • Annotated solutions

  • Beginner’s Academy

    From how the pieces move to basic checkmates and standard openings, explained with diagrams and animations. Like a soldier crossing the river — one step at a time.

    • Rules
    • Basic mates
    • Openings

Daily Puzzle

Today’s Puzzle · Watching the Crosscurrent

An original position from Shiqing Yaqu, a Ming-dynasty puzzle manual. Black’s chariots, horse and pawn are already at Red’s general, so Red cannot spare a single quiet move — every move must be a check. Can you find the mate in three?

  • Red to move
  • Mate in 3

Source: Shiqing Yaqu 《适情雅趣》 (Ming dynasty, Longqing edition), “Watching the Crosscurrent” 目视横流. Commentary written by Zhuxiangzhai.

Need a hint?

The centre file is the way in. Can you bear to give up a chariot right in front of Black’s general? Ask which piece Black must take it with — and whose escape route that piece then blocks.

More puzzles in the app
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Red to move. Once you’ve thought it through, press “Next” to see the solution.

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Our Story

The Meaning of Our Name

Zhuxiangzhai (竹香斋) — zhu, bamboo; xiang, fragrance; zhai, a scholar’s studio: a studio scented with bamboo.

Bamboo: hollow within and upright without, it would rather break than bend — to the ancients, the very image of a gentleman’s integrity.

Studio: a quiet room, incense burning and tea brewing — a place to read, and a place to play.

Xiangqi asks the same of us: watch in silence, never take back a move, win without pride, lose without despair.

Zhuxiangzhai hopes to keep a quiet table for every player.

— Zhuxiangzhai

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A board that goes wherever you go

The Zhuxiangzhai app is being carefully polished and will launch soon on iOS and Android, alongside a web version.

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