Crowded Xiangqi (擠迫棋) is a variant of Chinese Chess which I invented after all of my cheap magnetic boards broke in half. It is played using the standard 32-piece set on half the board (a grid of 5 × 9 intersections).
The starting position in FEN is
rnbakabnr/pcp1p1pcp/9/PCP1P1PCP/RNBAKABNR
where krncabp
(in either case) stand for
general (king), chariot (rook), horse (knight), cannon,
advisor, elephant (bishop), and pawn respectively.
I have not named this variant "half-board" lest it be confused with Banqi (半棋), which is a very different game where the pieces are shuffled (so there is a strong element of luck) and placed in the squares rather than at the intersections.
Conway (2022). Crowded Xiangqi. <https://yawnoc.github.io/crowded-xiangqi> Accessed yyyy-mm-dd.