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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. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.
Their naming convention is as follows: depending on the type of image, they together will form the entire image name, but start with xiangqi-and end with a unique four or five letter code. Color will either be light (red) or dark (black), and will be denoted by either a "l" or "d" respectively, in the second character placename in the code.
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The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant [16] and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, [9] with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. [17]
The Chinese Xiangqi Association (Chinese: 中国象棋协会) was founded in 1962 as a member of the All-China Sports Federation promoting xiangqi, or Chinese chess, and is based in Beijing. [1] It is among the founding members of the Asian Xiangqi Federation , and since 1975 has been a member of the International Xiangqi Federation .
Current definitions of qi cover a wide range of board games, and given that in classical Chinese qí could also refer to other games, some argue that the qí in the four arts could refer to xiangqi. [1] However, xiangqi is often considered a popular "game of the people," whereas weiqi was a game with aristocratic connotations.
Former headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, [24] under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads, and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body.