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Imperial Dragon Chess. A variant of Xiangqi designed to appeal to western players. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Sam wrote on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 03:45 PM UTC:Poor ★
You do not even know how this Dragon-Elephant excalty moves. Also this game just wants to try to trade off pieces to get this piece. In other words you are hurting the straige that is invabled in the game.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 18, 2003 06:56 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
So the two different versions of the Elephant move give two different game variants - all the better! I'm all for strengthened Elephants.

David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Apr 1, 2005 01:29 AM UTC:
Based on the example of the Dragon Horse in Shogi, I would assume that the Dragon-Elephant in this game moves like a Wazir or an Elephant. And thus the Elephant in Imperial Dragon Chess must be a leaper.

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 08:00 AM UTC:
Is pawn promotion obligatory or can be done later by moving sideways? Do promoted elephant demotes when again on friendly half of river?

📝Peter Aronson wrote on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 04:19 AM UTC:
I'll have to guess, because our description is incomplete, but I'd say Pawn promotion is obligatory, and Dragon-Elephants do not un-promote when crossing back over the river.

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