Fangqi

Fangqi (方棋)

Men in an Ürümqi neighborhood playing Xinjiang Fāngqí (新疆方棋)
Genres	Board game Abstract strategy game
Players	2
Setup time	< 1 minute
Playing time	< 1 hour
Chance	None
Age range	Any
Skills	Strategy, tactics
Synonyms	Square game / Game of squares Playing squares Square chess Xia fang

Fangqi (Chinese: 方棋; pinyin: fāngqí) is a strategy board game played traditionally throughout Northern China as a training game for weiqi (Go). Fangqi is also known as diūfāng (Chinese: 丢方) and xiàfāng (Chinese: 下方). Muslim people of Chinese origin (Dungans), brought the game with them to Central Asian countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.