Xiangqi Lab: Chinese Chess AI

Xiangqi Lab: Chinese Chess AI – Elevate Your Strategic Mind

Are you passionate about Chinese Chess (Xiangqi / Chinese Chess)? Want to improve your skills but haven't found the right sparring partner? Let Xiangqi Lab be your ultimate companion on your journey to chess mastery.

Xiangqi Lab is designed as a miniature training camp right on your phone. The app focuses deeply on learning and training (Training) with the support of AI technology.

Xiangqi Lab has everything you need to level up your skills including: Building Chinese chess openings and training to memorize them, solving puzzles, endgames, and middlegames to enhance your calculation power.

The app has 2 main languages: Vietnamese, English

MAIN FEATURES:

✅ 1. Play Against Powerful AI (Pikafish Engine) Challenge Pikafish – One of the Chinese chess engines with in-depth processing capabilities.

Adjustable difficulty from Beginner to Grandmaster.

Dynamic AI playstyles: Knows how to attack, defend, and exploit mistakes

You can make the AI give first move or piece handicaps for an easier match.
A supporting tool to practice calculation skills and chess intuition (Co tuong).

✅ 2. Build & Manage Opening "Books" A feature that helps players create personal data:

Draft your own opening and middlegame variations.

Supports best move suggestions from AI, helps find the 5 optimal moves (ranked by board evaluation score) in a position, Supports game analysis and book building with the "Oracle" feature.

Detailed note-taking feature for each move: Which is an excellent move, a flying dagger (trap), or a blunder.

Supports importing books from PGN files or JSON files (the app's format)

Build a knowledge base helping you memorize formations: Central Cannon, Screen Horse, Reverse Cannon...

✅ 3. Opening Trainer After drafting the opening, use this feature to memorize it.

The machine will play as the opponent, strictly following the variations you drafted.

If you make a wrong move in the book, the app will remind you immediately.

✅ 4. Puzzle Solver Many puzzles from basic to advanced (Checkmate) are waiting for you to solve.

"AI Defender" mechanic: The machine will defend at maximum level, requiring you to find the exact checkmate sequence to be able to win.

Train the ability to spot combinations and finish the match.

✅ 5. Authentic Chess Interface

Minimalist design, helping you focus on the chessboard.

Customize chess pieces, chessboard to your liking, supports vertical rotation, flipping left and right as you wish.

Fully supports Vietnamese.

✅ 6. Opening Practice

Synthesizes many different openings such as Same-Direction Cannon, Reverse Cannon, Palcorner Cannon, Edge Horse, Elephant Opening,... and some other tricky street chess openings for you to practice with AI, finding the optimal moves.

✅ 7. Endgame Studies

The app also features a comprehensive collection of specialized endgame studies, including Horse & Cannon endgames, Double Horse endgames, Rook endgames, Pawn endgames, and many more. This extensive library provides everything you need to sharpen your endgame skills and elevate your Xiangqi mastery.

✅ 8. Middlegame Studies

The app also includes a selection of carefully curated Middlegame Studies. These strategic compilations are designed to enhance your calculation abilities and deepen your understanding of middlegame positions, helping you make stronger, more decisive moves in the heat of battle.

✅ 8. Puzzle, Endgame Ranked Mode

After practicing, you can climb Rank, solve puzzles and endgames to see if you are as good as others.

✅ 8. Daily Challenges (checkmate, middlegame, endgame): Enjoy it

WHO IS XIANGQI LAB FOR?

Beginners who want to learn Chinese chess systematically.

Chess players who want to practice openings and memorize complex variations.

People who want intellectual entertainment, training logical thinking through board games specifically Chinese chess.

Download Xiangqi Lab: Chinese Chess AI now to start practicing today!