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chess variant native to China
About Xiangqi
Traditional Chinese accounts date the game to the Warring States period (475-221 BC) in Chinese history. The earliest record of rules resembling anything like modern xiangqi, however, dates back to the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907). Due to the similarities to international chess, most Western historians believe that it probably shares the same origin in thePersiangame ofshatranj, which would have been brought to China by Persian traders via the silk road, and ultimately in theIndiangame ofchaturanga. In modern Chinese culture, the game is often seen as symbolising the war between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu at the end of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), which eventually resulted in Liu Bang's victory and the establishment of the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). Xiangqi is played on an 8x9 board. Unlike in
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