Computer Olympiad Starting in 1999, that event is now co-sponsored by the World Bridge Federation. Chess is a two-player board game played on a checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces of varying characteristics, the objective being to capture one's opponent's king piece. Many computer-versus-computer events are held beyond those of the Computer Olympiad. Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players from the same family as western or international chess. Known primarily as Xiangqi internationally, the game is referred to as Chinese Chess in the Computer Olympiad competitions. Chinese Dark
The Game of Chinese Chess the engraving with a shorter central inscription is also in the Metropolitan Museum. The Game of Chinese Chess The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French - "Le jeu d'échets chinois") is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi - actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, whereas the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied. It is best known through the 39.4 by 27.7 cm engraving made after it by the Englishman John Ingram (1721 - c.1771; fl. 1763). It was part of