Qi "Game of the Seven Kingdoms" is based symbolically on the Warring States Period. Unicode Xiangqi pieces were added to the Unicode Standard in June 2018 with the release of version 11.0. They appear in the Chess Symbols Unicode block, which is U+1FA00–U+1FA6F: Popular culture The game appears in the early 17th-century novel Jin Ping Mei. In Season 1, Episode 21 of Person of Interest, the protagonist John Reese plays the game with an older Chinese man. In the Soviet-North Vietnamese 1959 cartoon "Скоро будет дождь"/Trời sắp mưa (Soon There Will Be Rain), the plot is centered around the Lord of Heaven losing all the water on Earth to the Draught goddess in chess. The board seen appears to be Xiangqi. See also List of world championships in mind sports National Peasants' Games Xiang Jing Xiangqi at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games Xiangqi at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games Xiangqi at the 2010 Asian Games Xiexiemaster World Xiangqi Championship Notes References Leventhal, Dennis A. The Chess of China. Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya, 1978. (out-of-print but can be partly downloaded) Li, David H. The Genealogy of Chess. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 1998. . Wilkes, Charles Fred. A Manual of Chinese Chess. 1952. Further reading Li, David H. First Syllabus on Xiangqi: Chinese Chess 1. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 1996. . Li, David H. Xiangqi Syllabus on Cannon: Chinese Chess 2. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 1998. . Li, David H. Xiangqi Syllabus on Elephant: Chinese Chess 3. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 2000. . Li, David H. Xiangqi Syllabus on Pawn: Chinese Chess 4. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 2002. . Li, David H. Xiangqi Syllabus on Horse: Chinese Chess 5. Premier Publishing, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004. . External links Xiangqi.com Play Xiangqi for free Xiangqi Championships Learn Chinese Chess in English Rules, openings, strategy, ancient manuals An Introduction to Xiangqi for Chess Players Xiangqi, Chinese Chess Presentation, rules, history and variants, by Jean-Louis Cazaux Xiangqi (象棋): Chinese Chess by Hans Bodlaender, ed. Fergus Duniho, The Chess Variant Pages Abstract strategy games Games related to chaturanga Chess in China Chinese ancient games Traditional board games Asian Games competitors for China