XIANGQI ARENA
Play xiangqi online.
Rated, timed, worldwide.
Chinese chess with real competition: rated games with Elo and rank tiers, lessons you play rather than watch, a puzzle ladder, and an archive of master games with engine analysis.
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LESSONS & DRILLS
32,204
MASTER GAMES
12
SOUND COLLECTIONS
4
LANGUAGES
From the master game archiveOpening position
PLAY · LEARN · TRAIN · STUDY
Four ways to get better at xiangqi
Play
Rated games with Elo and rank tiers, your choice of clock, direct challenges, and ten engine strengths.
Learn
92 lessons you play rather than watch: piece basics, tactics, 20 opening systems, 17 checkmate patterns.
Train
A puzzle campaign, a rated ladder with its own Elo, a daily puzzle, and Puzzle Storm against the clock.
Study
32,204 master games, an opening explorer, and engine analysis that shows where a game turned.
HOW IT WORKS
From sign-up to first move in under a minute
一
Sign up with email
Create your free account in seconds. You start at 1500 Elo with a provisional rating.
二
Pick your time control
Quick match with one tap, or set custom timers and side, then create an open game or challenge a player.
三
Play, climb, review
Win rated games to climb the tiers. Replay any past game from your profile to sharpen your openings.
FROM THE GUIDE LIBRARY
Start with a guide
Twenty-six guides written by the people who built the lessons: every opening system in the course, the principles underneath them, and the checkmates worth knowing by name. Free to read, no account needed.
Opening systems
The Central Cannon
The first opening every teacher recommends, and why it still wins games at every level.
Skills and tactics
Opening principles: the first ten moves
What the first ten moves are for, and the habits that hold up whichever system you play.
Skills and tactics
The named checkmate patterns
Twelve named mating patterns, each shown on a board, from the horse-behind-cannon to the iron bolt.
Masters
Thirty-three masters
Career profiles of the professionals behind the archive, each with famous games you can replay move by move.
RATINGS & RANKS
Climb from Silver to Diamond
Every rated game adjusts your Elo. Your rating places you in a rank tier shown next to your name — win rated games to climb, and review your full rating history on your profile.
DIAMOND2200+top 2%
PLATINUM1900–2199top 12%
GOLD1650–1899top 38%
SILVERbelow 1650everyone starts here
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