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Cờ Gánh Endgames: Winning by Blockade, Liberty Races, and the Two Faces of the Fortress
As the board thins, Cờ Gánh becomes arithmetic: winning by leaving the opponent no move, liberty races between mutually surrounded groups, the endgame carry trap, and why a self-surround fortress can become a coffin.
Common Cờ Nhào Mistakes: Parity Blindness, Self-Blocking, and Forgetting the Reply Chain
Four mistakes that make Cờ Nhào players lose games they don't understand: ignoring which points have diagonals, blocking your own last move, counting only your own chain, and breaking the opening wall too soon.
Ô Ăn Quan Strategy: Count the Seeds, Chain the Captures, Never Let Your Land Burn
Ô Ăn Quan is deterministic arithmetic on a 12-cell ring: count where the last stone lands, build empty-full bridges for capture chains, watch both mandarins ripen past 5 stones, and avoid the 5-stone reseed tax.
Cờ Nhào Tactics: Capture Chains and the Art of the Landing Square
Read the landing square before the chain, know when to decline a capture, think in networks of empty points, and use the 1-vs-1 draw rule on time — four decisions that make a strong Cờ Nhào player.
Cờ Gánh Tactics: Double Captures, Group Surrounds, and the Mandatory-Capture Trap
Force a bad mandatory capture, pre-load the axes for double carries at the centre, count breathing points to strangle whole groups — three ideas that decide strong Cờ Gánh games.
"The Central Cannon Opening: Xiangqi's Classic First Move"
Learn the Central Cannon opening — xiangqi's most classic attacking setup, its Same Direction and Opposite Direction variations, and how to counter it.
5 Xiangqi Endgame Tips That Will Help You Win More
The 5 most important xiangqi endgame principles: keep your king safe, use your crossed-river pawns, coordinate chariot and horse, and calculate continuous checks.