Grandpa’s Xiangqi Lessons: Chinese chess for ages 6–10

Three chapters: first, meet one piece at a time (chariot, horse, cannon, soldier, elephant, advisor, general) and use it to collect candies, learning rules such as the blocked horse leg, the blocked elephant eye, the cannon needing a screen to capture, and generals never facing each other. Second, 8 checkmate-in-one puzzles. Third, a full game against Grandpa, the computer opponent, who gets stronger or easier depending on how the child does. Two players can also play on one device.

Tapping a piece shows where it can go, and tapping somewhere it can’t go explains why. An optional danger hint marks pieces that can be captured. In full games, three undos are allowed per game (each costs a star). To keep it simple, a draw is declared when the same position appears 3 times or 60 moves each pass without a capture; formal perpetual-check rulings are not applied. It lives in WonderPlay’s Brain Break corner: it is not a maths game and does not count towards daily missions or curriculum progress. On the parent page you can ask for daily missions to come first. Free, no ads, no sign-up, and no online play.