Game of the Seven Kingdoms

Game of the Seven Kingdoms

Starting position
Designer(s) Sima Guang
Years active Since 13th century
Genre(s) Abstract strategy game
Chess variant
Players 7
Skill(s) required Strategy, tactics
Synonym(s) Seven-handed xiangqi
Qiquo xiangqi

Game of the Seven Kingdoms (Chinese: 七國象棋, p qī-guó-xiàng-qí ;) is a seven-player variant of the game xiangqi ("Chinese chess"). It was invented by Sima Guang. There is skepticism regarding the game's 13th-century formulation.[1]

See also

Game of the Seven Kingdoms symbolizes the Seven Warring States period (403–221 BC).[2]

References

  1. "The imbalance in the array must reflect on the play (assuming that the game was ever played), and can perhaps be attributed to the fact that a weiqi board rather than a bespoke board was used. The existence of pieces moving as Q and B at least two centuries before their introduction into orthochess is a phenomenon few will credit. (Leventhal, Chess of China)" (Pritchard 2007:343)
  2. Pritchard (1994), p. 265

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