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A Xiangqi problem

Below, you see a complicated Xiangqi problem. It appear in Variant Chess, Jul-Sep 1993 issue. This problem is described in a report on the UK Championship Xiangqi. C.K. Lai presented this problem there; it appears in one of his books on Xiangqi.

Red to play and win. Red has a pawn and an elephant, and black has a mandarin.

Solution


Written by Hans Bodlaender.
WWW page created: October 21, 2001.

The above was authored by: Hans L. Bodlaender. The above was invented by: C. K. Lai.
Created on: October 29, 2001. Last modified on: October 29, 2001.

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Coffee Chinese Chess. A freeware Java applet for playing Chinese Chess Author: Fergus Duniho Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen
Uncle Wang Chinese Chess. Link to website of commercial program that plays Xiangqi
XieXie. Xiangqi Computer Program XieXieMaster 1.0.10 released! (Link) Author: Pascal Tang Inventor: Pascal Tang and Eugenio Castillo
Chinese Chess. Information on book on Xiangqi Author: H. T. Lau
Chinese Chess Cyber Newsletter. (Link)
First Syllabus on Xiangqi - Chinese Chess 1. Author: David Li
Xiangqi FAQ. Author: Stephen Leary
Elephant Chess Club. Webshop selling internationalized Xiangqi and Shogi sets (Link)
German Xiangqi Federation. Includes problem solving contest. (Link)
Go-Figure!. Webshop selling sets of Xiangqi (Chinese chess) (Link)
Xiangqi. Western Style. Version using Alfaerie graphics. (Zillions of Games file) Author: David Howe

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