Pocket Xiangqi

Little pieces. Big adventures. Learn a new move, challenge an offline opponent, and discover classic checkmating ideas in a playful little chess courtyard.

Welcome to Pocket Xiangqi, a cozy home for Chinese chess.

PLAY AT YOUR PACE Choose from three computer difficulty levels and play either side. Undo your last turn, ask for a suggested move, and continue your automatically saved game. The opponent thinks entirely on your device.

LEARN BY DOING Explore 15 short interactive lessons covering the board, each piece, blocked horses and elephants, cannon screens, facing generals, escaping check and checkmating combinations. Make the move yourself to complete each lesson.

FIND THE WINNING IDEA Solve 20 handcrafted teaching positions inspired by classic checkmating motifs, including rook ladders, horse-screen cannons and stacked cannons. The collection includes mirrored and spacing variations, with mate-in-one and mate-in-two challenges, hints and step-by-step replay.

A LITTLE THEATER ON EVERY SQUARE Enjoy a warm wooden board, dimensional chess tokens and playful capture effects. Chariots rush, cannons burst and horses leap. Check alerts and result celebrations bring each game to life. Quick animations and reduced motion are available.

OFFLINE AND PRIVATE All game content is included in the app. No account, ads or in-app purchases. Progress stays on your device. Choose Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese or English; chess tokens retain their Chinese characters.

Casual rules: checkmate and stalemate are losses. Threefold repetition with the same side to move, or 120 half-moves without a capture or pawn move, is a draw. Full tournament perpetual-check and chase adjudication is not included.