https://mistboard.com/blog Xiangqi, fog variants, and engine work from Mistboard. en https://mistboard.com/blog/how-puzzle-mining-works mistboard:blog:how-puzzle-mining-works Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A miner that reads real xiangqi games, finds the moves people got wrong, and keeps the positions where exactly one move wins. About one blunder in nine survives it. Here is the algorithm, the code, and some of what it kept and threw away. https://mistboard.com/blog/xiangqi-match-fixing mistboard:blog:xiangqi-match-fixing Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Between 2024 and 2026 the Chinese Xiangqi Association sanctioned 49 people for buying and selling games, and a Hangzhou court convicted six grandmasters of bribery. What happened, why it paid, who ruled, and what is still unproven. https://mistboard.com/blog/xiangqi-world-championship mistboard:blog:xiangqi-world-championship Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every winner of the Xiangqi World Championship since 1990, why the Chinese national title is the harder one, and how a Vietnamese player took it out of China for the first time in 2025. https://mistboard.com/blog/xiangqi-champions mistboard:blog:xiangqi-champions Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every winner of the Chinese national xiangqi championship since 1956, and an annotated game for thirteen of them. Plus the nine hundred years before the title existed, and the decade that has been struck from the record. https://mistboard.com/blog/titled-players mistboard:blog:titled-players Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Verified titled players get a gold badge beside their name, a coaching page students can find, and a front page that will carry their work. Verification takes about two minutes. https://mistboard.com/blog/riverbank-cannon mistboard:blog:riverbank-cannon Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Red’s opening cannon reaches the riverbank first, one move from firing down any of five files, and in fog you never see it coming. Whether that breaks the game came down to one elephant move, one poisoned defense, and a coin flip we priced with the engine. https://mistboard.com/blog/skill-vs-luck mistboard:blog:skill-vs-luck Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Half the moves in banqi, jieqi, and flip jungle are dice rolls, so a chess-style review blames you for variance. Mistboard’s game review splits every flip into the decision and the tile: luck-stripped accuracy, a luck line on the advantage graph, and what 52 human-versus-engine games say about who really earned their wins. https://mistboard.com/blog/misty mistboard:blog:misty Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Misty is Mistboard's Fog of War chess engine: how it sees, searches possible boards, avoids hidden catastrophes, and where the current version stands. https://mistboard.com/blog/mistybanqi mistboard:blog:mistybanqi Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT MistyBanqi is the engine you play in Banqi on Mistboard: a classical search engine with a hand-written evaluation. How it thinks, and the blind spot worth knowing: it can draw a game it has already won. https://mistboard.com/blog/server-enforced-fog mistboard:blog:server-enforced-fog Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT How Mistboard keeps hidden information on the server: canonical state, seat-scoped views, private live rooms, and public postgame review.