XQ Arena: Chinese Chess

Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, is the classic strategy game of China, played for centuries. XQ Arena makes it easy to start, even if you have never seen the board and cannot read a single Chinese character. LEARN IT STEP BY STEP Pao, our cannon, teaches you. Short lessons, one idea each, played out on a real board you tap. Where the pieces go, why the horse can be blocked, why the elephant never crosses the river, and how a cannon takes a piece by jumping over one. No walls of text. You play every step. PIECES YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ Choose traditional Chinese characters, clear pictures of each piece, or both together with a small character in the corner so the writing sinks in while you play. It is your own setting. Your opponent still sees the board the way they like it. SEVEN MASTERS TO BEAT Climb the Arena ladder from Bing the soldier to Shuai the general. Each one plays with its own…