Hootle Xiangqi

Hootle Xiangqi teaches xiangqi, Chinese chess, from the very first move to the famous checkmates, and then gives you robots to beat. It is gentle enough for a child of six and thorough enough for a grown-up starting from zero. XIANGQI SCHOOL Ten chapters, 122 short lessons and more than 300 puzzles and games, taught by Hootle the owl and the robots of the ladder. Each lesson shows one idea on a real board, lets you try it, and reads every line aloud. 1. The board and the pieces: the river, the palace, and how every piece moves 2. Capturing and defending: what pieces are worth, the cannon's screen, the blocked horse 3. Check and checkmate, and the xiangqi rule that a general with no move loses 4. Rules and notation: the facing generals, perpetual check, draws, and reading "C2=5" 5. Starting the game: the central cannon, screen horses, traps to avoid 6. Tactics: forks, pins, discovered checks, double check and the sacrifice 7. Famous checkmates: double chariots, horse and cannon, double cannons, the iron bolt and more 8. Endgames: winning with a chariot, a soldier, a horse or a cannon 9. Making a plan: open lines, horses across the river, attacking a weak palace 10. Grand review, ending with games against the strongest robots Chapters open one after another, so you always know what to learn next. REAL PIECES Every piece is a wooden disc with the Chinese character of a real set, and one lesson teaches how to read them. TEN ROBOTS TO BEAT Climb a ladder of ten robot players, from Baby Chick, who is just learning, through Clever Fox, Professor Owl and Fire Dragon, up to Mega Brain. Play Red or Black. Every robot plays a little stronger than the one before, so each win feels earned. SAFE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY - Free to try: the first two chapters and three robots. One purchase unlocks everything else, for good. No ads, no subscription, no accounts - No analytics and no tracking; nothing about you or your child leaves the device - Works without the internet (except to fetch the narrator's voice the first time) - Lessons read aloud, and that can be turned off - In English, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Thai, starting in the device's own language - Friendly clay robots and gentle music Hootle Xiangqi comes from the makers of Hootle, a set of learning games for children. Privacy policy: https://xiangqi.hootle.app/privacy