Banqi
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Banqi () or Half Chess, also known as Dark Chess (暗棋) or Blind Chess (盲棋), is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4×8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese chess) board. Most games last between ten and twenty minutes, but advanced games can last for an hour or more.
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It is catalogued under topics including Games related to chaturanga and Xiangqi variants.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Equipment
- Board
- Pieces
- Playing the game
- Rules for moves
- Turning over a piece
- Moving a piece
- Capturing an opposing piece
- Stalemate
- Strategy
- Variants
- References
- External links
Banqi () or Half Chess, also known as Dark Chess (暗棋) or Blind Chess (盲棋), is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4×8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese chess) board. Most games last between ten and twenty minutes, but advanced games can last for an hour or more.
Banqi is a social game, usually played for fun rather than serious competition. A more formal version of Banqi may have evolved into the games Jungle and modern Luzhanqi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Banqi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.