Our rebuilt engine now annotates entire games in seconds, surfaces the critical turning point, and translates evaluations into plain-language coaching you can actually learn from.
Great tools should disappear. The best moment with a feature is the one you never notice, because it simply did what you needed and got out of the way. That has been our guiding principle for this release.
We have spent months reworking the parts of XiangqiPlay that you touch the most, and today we are excited to put them in your hands.
What is new
The headline change is speed. Operations that used to make you wait now feel instantaneous, and that difference compounds across an entire session of study or play.
Beyond raw performance, we have rebuilt the surrounding experience so that the information you need is always one glance away — no digging through menus, no guessing what a number means.
Built for how you actually learn
We watched hundreds of hours of real sessions to find the friction points, then designed around them. The result is a tool that meets beginners where they are while still rewarding the depth that stronger players crave.
Everything ships free for existing members, with the heaviest analysis features available to Premium subscribers who want to go deeper.
What it means going forward
None of this is the final word — Xiangqi rarely offers final words. But it is a reminder that the game keeps moving, and that the players and ideas worth watching are the ones unafraid to revisit what everyone thought was settled.
We will keep following the story as it develops. In the meantime, the best way to internalise any of this is the obvious one: set up the position yourself, play it out, and see where your intuition leads.