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Chinese Dark Chess (暗棋), a popular version of Banqi, a variation of Chinese Chess that only uses half of the board, also called dark chess, half chess or blind chess. Chinese dark chess is a two-player zero-sum and incomplete information board game.

=Photos= Yokohama 2013 award ceremony Chinese Dark Chess, Hung-Jui Chang (Operator Yahari, Bronze), Wen-Jie Tseng (DarkKnight, Gold), Cheng-Wei Chou (Diablo, Silver), and Jaap van den Herik
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=Tournaments=

=See also=
 * KriegSpiel
 * Phantom Go

=Publications=

2010 ...

 * Bo-Nian Chen, Bing-Jie Shen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2010). Chinese Dark Chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2
 * Shi-Jim Yen, Shih-Yuan Chiu, I-Chen Wu (2010). Modark wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4 » 15th Computer Olympiad
 * Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2012). The Art of the Chinese Dark Chess Program DIABLE. ICS 2012, Hualien, Taiwan, December 2012
 * Jr-Chang Chen, Ting-Yu Lin, Shun-Chin Hsu, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2012). Design and Implementation of Computer Chinese Dark Chess Endgame Database, TCGA Workshop 2012
 * Bo-Nian Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2013). Automatic Generation of Chinese Dark Chess Opening Books. CG 2013
 * Shi-Jim Yen, Jr-Chang Chen, Bo-Nian Chen, Wen-Jie Tseng (2013). DARKNIGHT Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3 » 17th Computer Olympiad
 * Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2014). Design and Implementation of Chinese Dark Chess Programs. Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
 * Nicolas Jouandeau, Tristan Cazenave (2014). Small and Large MCTS Playouts applied to Chinese Dark Chess Stochastic Game. ECAI CGW 2014

2015 ...

 * Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, I-Chen Wu (2015). DARKKNIGHT wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 » 18th Computer Olympiad
 * Shi-Jim Yen, Cheng-Wei Chou, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu, Kuo-Yuan Kao (2015). Design and Implementation of Chinese Dark Chess Programs. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 7, No. 1
 * Jr-Chang Chen, Ting-Yu Lin, Bo-Nian Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2015). Equivalence Classes in Chinese Dark Chess Endgames. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 7, No. 2
 * Wen-Jie Tseng, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu (2017). DarkKnight Wins Chinese Dark Chess Tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2 » 19th Computer Olympiad 2016
 * Hung-Jui Chang, Gang-Yu Fan, Jr-Chang Chen, Chih-Wen Hsueh, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2017). Validating and Fine-Tuning of Game Evaluation Functions Using Endgame Databases. CGW@IJCAI 2017
 * Hung-Jui Chang, Jr-Chang Chen, Gang-Yu Fan, Chih-Wen Hsueh, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2018). Using Chinese dark chess endgame databases to validate and fine-tune game evaluation functions. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 » Endgame Tablebases
 * Hung-Jui Chang, Jr-Chang Chen, Chih-Wen Hsueh, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2018). Analysis and efficient solutions for 2 × 4 Chinese dark chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2
 * Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, I-Chen Wu, Tsan-sheng Hsu, Jr-Chang Chen (2018). An investigation of strength analysis metrics for game-playing programs: A case study in Chinese dark chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2
 * Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, I-Chen Wu, Jr-Chang Chen, Tsan-sheng Hsu (2018). AlphaZero for a Non-Deterministic Game. TAAI 2018 » AlphaZero

2020 ...

 * Jr-Chang Chen, Ting-Yu Lin, Gang-Yu Fan (2020). Yahari wins Chinese dark chess tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1 » 22nd Computer Olympiad

=External Links=
 * Banqi from Wikipedia
 * Chinese Dark Chess from Wikipedia (Chinese)
 * Links about Chinse Dark Chess
 * Chinese Dark Chess (ICGA Tournaments)

=References=

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