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The pieces behave differently and have an entirely different set of rules allocated to each piece's movement, even the board is set up individually.

The Chinese variation of the game replaces pieces such as the rook and bishop with their eastern counterparts of ministers, counselors, and cannons. While these changes came through through European influences, Chess went down a whole different lane in China, where it became vastly different when compared to the dominant form of modern Chess that we see today. The game then spread to the nearby regions of Persia and China, thanks to the European traders that visited these lands the historic game soon made its way onto the western world where it went through certain adaptations to become what it is today. The beginning of chess can be traced back to the seventh century in India, where it was initially called Chaturanga. Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess is a strategy game that was developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1990 for the Amiga and MS-DOS.