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The Vietnamese Chess Championship has been held annually since 1980 by the Vietnam Chess Federation (Vietnamese: Liên đoàn Cờ Việt Nam), which joined FIDE in 1988. [1] The federation has also organized an annual Vietnamese Women's Chess Championship since 1983.
4 Thái- Tày ethnic group's games. 5 Muong ethnic group's games. Toggle the table of contents. List of Vietnamese traditional games. ... Cờ người; Pháo đất
[4] [5] The game is played on a 7×9 board and is popular with children in the Far East. [1] Jungle is a two-player strategy game and has been cited by The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games as resembling the Western game Stratego. [6] The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. [7]
Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China.
The deck is dealt as if three people are playing, but one pile remains face down for the duration of the game. Other versions of two-player games deal 16 cards to each player. [4] To begin, one person will shuffle the cards, and another will be designated to play as the House (Nhà Cái), i.e. the leader for the round
The game reached Japan in the 7th century CE—where it is called go (碁) or igo (囲碁). It became popular at the Japanese imperial court in the 8th century, [91] and among the general public by the 13th century. [92] The game was further formalized in the 15th century. In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu re-established Japan's unified national government.
Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically made of a standard 8×8 square, with 3 rows of 8 cells each extending from each side, and requires two sets of differently colored pieces.
Checkers [note 1] (American English), also known as draughts (/ d r ɑː f t s, d r æ f t s /; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.