Animals battle across rivers and traps to reach the enemy den. Move your 8 ranked animal pieces (Rat to Elephant) toward the opponent's Den. Higher rank captures lower, but the Rat defeats the Elephant. Traps weaken defenders, rivers block most pieces.
Every rule of Dou Shou Qi (斗兽棋 / Jungle) below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the chess plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.
Move your 8 ranked animal pieces (Rat to Elephant) toward the opponent's Den. Higher rank captures lower, but the Rat defeats the Elephant. Traps weaken defenders, rivers block most pieces.
engine:
topology:
type: grid
rows: 9
cols: 7
players: [white, black]
plugin: chess
plugins:
dou-shou-qi:
castling: false
enPassant: false
noCheck: true
stalemateMeaning: loss
regions:
water:
cells:
- [3, 1]
- [3, 2]
- [3, 4]
- [3, 5]
- [4, 1]
- [4, 2]
- [4, 4]
- [4, 5]
- [5, 1]
- [5, 2]
# …Dou Shou Qi (Standard)
Every Dou Shou Qi (斗兽棋 / Jungle) variant is playable against the AI or another player.