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How to Play Chess — Beginner's Guide
Learn chess rules, piece movements, and basic strategies. Free bilingual guide (English/Vietnamese).
Rook, Cannon, Horse: the same pieces, different logic in Xiangqi and Chess
The Chariot moves identically, the Cannon exists in only one game and captures over a screen, the Horse traces the same L but can be hobbled — a quick translation between the two games.
Xiangqi Skills That Make You Better at Chess (and Back Again)
X-rays and batteries learned from the Cannon, blocking-square calculation from the hobbled Horse, rook endgames, planning from chess — the skills that genuinely transfer between the two games.
7 Mistakes Chess Players Make When Switching to Xiangqi
Cannons need screens, Horses get hobbled, generals fly, and running out of moves loses — seven habits that are right in chess and wrong in xiangqi, and how to retrain them.