The Beijing font family for XiangQi (Chinese Chess) includes 7 fonts in
both TrueType and PostScript formats and an excellent 9 page downloadable User’s
Guide. Each of the fonts has the same keymap so it is easy to change from one diagram
style to another. There are three different border styles.
Shown below are diagrams using the various Beijing fonts.
Lu Qin - Li LaiQun, QiWang Match 5th game, February 24, 1994. 1.
H2-E2 B9-C7 2. H0-G2 H7-F7 3. G3-G4 H9-G7 4. I0-H0 I9-I8 5. B0-A2 I8-D8 6. B2-C2 D8-D4 7.
A0-B0 A9-B9 8. B0-B6 D9-E8 9. G0-I2 B7-A7 10.B6-B9 C7-B9 (diagram below left - Beijing
font) 11. F0-E1 F7-C7 12. H0-F0 C9-E7 13. F0-F4 D4-F4 14. G2-F4 C6-C5 15. A3-A4 A7-A4
16. E2-G2 A4-A3 17. G2-G6 A3-E3 18. E0-F0 E6-E5 19. F4-D5 E3-F3 20. A2-B4 F3-F5 21. G4-G5
F5-D5 22. B4-D5 G7-E6 23. G5-F5 C7-C8 24. F5-E5 E6-C7 25. D5-E3 A6-A5 26. E3-F5 A5-A4
27.C2-H2 E8-F7 28. F5-H6 F7-E8 29. G6-G8 E8-D7 30. H2-D2 C8-D8 (diagram below right -
Beijing Common font)
31. D2-D8 B9-D8 32. G8-G6 I6-I5 33. G6-G7 F9-E8 34. G7-H7 E9-D9 35.
H6-G4 C7-B5 36. G4-I5 B5-C3 37. I5-G6 D8-B7 38. E5-E6 C3-D5 39. C0-E2 A4-B4 40. I3-I4
B4-B3 41. I4-I5 B3-C3 42. I2-G4 B7-A5 43. H7-H9 D9-D8 44. G6-E5 A5-B3 45. H9-H1 D8-D9 46.
I5-I6 E7-G5 47. I6-H6 D5-E3 48. E5-F3 G5-E7 49. H6-G6 C3-D3 50.F3-E5 E3-G2 (diagram
below left - Beijing Graphic font) 51. F0-F1 B3-D4 52. H1-H9 D9-D8 53. E6-D6 D3-E3
54.G6-G7 G2-I3 55. D6-C6 D4-F3 56. C6-C7 E8-F9 57. C7-D7 D8-D9 58. E5-C6 I3-H1 59. G7-H7
H1-G3 60. F1-F0 E7-G5 61. E2-G0 D9-E9 62. H7-H8 C5-C4 63. E1-D2 E3-D3 64. D0-E1 F3-D4 65.
C6-A7 D4-E6 66. H8-G8 G5-E7 67. A7-C8 E9-D9 68. C8-E7 D9-E9 69. G8-F8 Resigns (diagram
below right - Beijing English font)
There have been questions regarding the numeric portion of the gridding system. The
gridding system can be written using 0-9 (below left), or using 1-10 (below right).
