Game

Watermelon chess

Alignment and Abstract Strategy Games

Watermelon chess is a two-player abstract strategy game from China, where it is known as xi gua qi and also called the surround game or globe. It is played on a network of curved lines in the spirit of Go, with players taking turns placing or moving a piece and capturing an opponent's pieces by surrounding them so they have no open point left to move to. The game belongs to the broad family of alignment and territory-capture abstract games long played in China, and like many such folk games it carries no single recorded invention date, only its living local name and continuing local play.

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Designer

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Publisher

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Publisher

Bubblegum Stuff 2

Publisher

NewVenture Games 2

Publisher

Sports Meeple 2

Game Category

Abstract Strategy 2

Game Mechanic

Point to Point Movement 2

Minimum Players

2 2

Maximum Players

2 2

Classification

Player Count

Two-Player 1

Sport

Game Type (category)

Strategy Game 1

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China

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Sources

1. Watermelon chess (Wikipedia)

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Watermelon chess is a two-player abstract strategy game from China where it is known as xi gua qi.
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Watermelon chess is a two-player abstract strategy game

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2. Xi Gua Qi (BoardGameGeek)