Xiangqi Game Pieces, Movement and Capturing

Game Pieces
The two players' pieces are usually colored red and black. Pieces are flat circular
disks labeled or engraved with a Chinese character identifying the piece type, and in
a color indicating which player has ownership. The black pieces are marked with
somewhat different Chinese characters from the corresponding red pieces.

The tables below show the details of Xiangqi pieces for the game.

Game pieces belong to Red’s Game pieces belong to Black’s

player player

Piece Name Quantity Piece Name Quantity

King 1 King 1

Advisor 2 Advisor 2

Elephant 2 Elephant 2

Pawn 5 Pawn 5

Chariot 2 Chariot 2

Horse 2 Horse 2

Cannon 2 Cannon 2

The player with the red pieces always moves first. After the first move, players
alternately move one piece per turn. Pieces are moved to either an unoccupied
intersection point or one occupied by an opponent's piece, which is captured and
removed from play. Pieces are not allowed to move to a point where already
occupied by his friendly piece. A player may not make any move that would put or
leave his king under attack. A player cannot "pass", at each turn they have to make a
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