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Chinese chess ; a variant of chess created and mainly played inChina .
Etymologies
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The Chinese version is called xiangqi 象棋 "boardgame of the elephant", usually called "Chinese chess" in the West.
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ON THE STREETS in Yellow Sheep River, farmers often play Chinese chess, or xiangqi, in the time between planting and harvest
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Brains, not brawn, will predominate at the first World Mind Sports Games, in Beijing, as 3,000 competitors from 150 countries vie for gold in chess, bridge, checkers, go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess).
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Brains, not brawn, will predominate at the first World Mind Sports Games, in Beijing, as 3,000 competitors from 150 countries vie for gold in chess, bridge, checkers, go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess).
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ON THE STREETS in Yellow Sheep River, farmers often play Chinese chess, or xiangqi, in the time between planting and harvest
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ON THE STREETS in Yellow Sheep River, farmers often play Chinese chess, or xiangqi, in the time between planting and harvest
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Ranked as one of the best female xiangqi players in China, Wang earned six victories during, the competition.
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The competition was also a hard-won battle for silver medallist Zhao: Foreign female xiangqi players have made great progress in recent years.
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Masters compete for 35 medal sets divided into five events: bridge, chess, go, draughts and xiangqi.
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A native of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China, Wang is a veteran in the sport, having started learning xiangqi at the age of eight.
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