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'''Chinese Chess''', or '''Xiangqi''' 象棋 <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chinese-chess/gcreEzzU3yQ/HvWOlP7yaYkJ Xiang Qi Is Not The Elephant Game] by Stephen Leary, [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chinese-chess]], November 18, 1994</ref>,<br/> is a chess variant which is very popular in East Asia, especially in China and Vietnam. The Chinese Chess set includes a board and 32 pieces for two players. The board has ten horizontal lines called [[Ranks|ranks]] and nine vertical lines called [[Files|files]]. Pieces are located not in the cells but intersectional points of ranks and files - there which are 90 pointsin total. In the middle of the board the central seven files are interrupted by a horizontal space called the “River”, which splits the board into two parts. <span id="Palace"></span>Each side of the board has a “Palace” a 3x3 area in the central base. The two sides are usually distinguished by colors, traditional names are red or black <ref>[[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tai-Ning Yang]], [[Shun-Chin Hsu]] ('''2004''') ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220174553_Computer_Chinese_Chess Computer Chinese Chess]''. [[ICGA Journal#27_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/223d/ef59c884503f18610bba314034157f55aacd.pdf pdf]</ref> but now they can be called white and black as chess. Sometimes the Xiangqi board can be considered as the representation of two countries.