Game Rules:
Movements:
兵/卒: Moves forward only. Promote at the end rank.
炮/包: Move and capture like a cannon in Chinese Chess.
傌/馬: Move like a knight. Blocked by obstacles directly in front.
俥/車: Move like a rook: any blocks horizontally & vertically
相/象: Move like a bishop: any blocks diagonally.
仕/士: Move one step diagonally. Has special skills
帥/將: Moves like a king: one block in 8-neighborhood.
Move and Capturing(Stacking):
Except 炮/包, every piece captures exactly like it moves.
When capturing, you don't remove your opponent's piece; Instead, you stack your piece on and cover it.
Only pieces shown on top can move. Whenever a piece is moved away, the lower pieces show up again.
You lose (or the other wins) when your king is stacked by any piece.
Height & Blockade:
The height of a piece is the number of pieces below it.
You are only blocked by a piece of the same height; Think of you move a piece at its height, and then drop the piece at the target grid.
When capturing, ignore the height of the target grid. That means you can always capture a piece regardless of its height!
Example of blockades:
A height-2 傌/馬 is not blocked by any height-0 or height-1 pieces.
A height-4 俥/車 is only blocked by a stack of pieces with height at least 4, and thus may usually attack several pieces in a row at the same time!
A height-1 炮/包 is not blocked by any height-0 pieces. As any movement before blocked is considered a move, you cannot stop upon an opponent's piece if nothing is blocking between.
(Remember: "Move" means you move a piece to an empty grid or above another piece of yourself;
"Capture" means you move a piece to an opponent's piece.)
Special moves of 仕/士:
When 仕/士 moves, it can always stack on any piece --- even if they are same side!
Furthermore, when 仕/士 moves, it can carry any number of pieces right below it to a new grid.
Promotion of 兵/卒:
When a 兵/卒 appears on top at the end rank, you switch its place with another non-兵/卒 piece of the same side.
Note that you cannot select a top piece in the end rank, but you can select other pieces in the end rank.