Check out Grant Acedrex, our featured variant for April, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
Ji Shi wrote on Sun, May 30, 2010 09:44 AM UTC:
This game was very popular among students in 1990s. The name is 'Lu Zhan
Qi' or 'Jun Qi', and 'Te Zhi' is just an adjective meaning made
special. But today in China very few people play this variant, because in
the last decade a four-player variant has become more and more pupolar on
internet. This four-player variant is called 'Si Guo Jun Qi', which means
army chess for four countries. Its rules are the same to the 2nd variant
mentioned in this page except that 1) the two players sitting opponent each
other are partners and the board is made in shape of a cross to fit four
players; 2) if a player's flag is taken, all of his pieces are eliminated
and the winning condition is taking two enemies' flags. With the help of
computers we don't need a referee now, so it's far more popular than Lu
Zhan Qi was in 1990s.

Supplements to the rules in this page: there are refuges on the board (the
circulars), in which pieces can't be attacked.

Seriously I doubt if games like stratego, 'Lu Zhan Qi' and 'Dou Shou
Qi' can be considered as chess variants. Of most of chess variants a
common feature is that different pieces just move and capture in different
ways but they can capture each other. Of stratego, 'Lu Zhan Qi' and 'Dou
Shou Qi', a common feature is that different pieces move almost the same
but only higher pieces can capture lower pieces.

Edit Form

Comment on the page Tezhi Luzhanqi - Chinese army chess

Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.