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Yáng Qí. Yankee ingenuity adds new power to Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 5, 2003 12:25 AM UTC:
Sam wrote: 'The beuity with Chinese chess is that you can move any piece at
the beginning of the game, giving the game many more posiblitys in the
game.'

While it is true that any piece can move at the beginning of Chinese
Chess, it is also true that any piece may move at the beginning of Yang
Qi. If you consider more opening moves a reason for favoring a game,
consider that Yang Qi has 55 possible opening moves, while Chinese Chess
has only 44.