Some of the finest xiangqi ever composed was written three hundred years ago. Now it's waiting on your board. New in Endgame Studio: Classical Studies. Thirty legendary endgames from the great Qing-dynasty manuals, among them Seven Stars Gather, A Thousand Miles Alone, The Earthworm Tames the Dragon and The Wild Horse Ploughs the Field. Masters have pored over these positions for centuries. Now it's your turn to sit down at them. You play each study out against the engine, and any sound move counts, not just the book's. Stuck? Tap Book: first it points to the piece, then it shows the move. Afterwards, step through the master's own line and see how it was meant to go. Every position, line and result comes straight from the original manuals and was checked move by move with the engine. Nothing is invented. Also in this update: a round of fixes and polish. The old masters left you a challenge. Take your seat.

Think you beat the Master? Look up. Thirty new opponents have taken their seats in the teahouse — forty in all, in eight tiers from novice to master. Shīfu, the final boss of 1.0, now sits on rung 33. Above him wait the Shadow Horse, the Iron Abacus who counts out every ending, the Divine Cannon that fires over any screen — and, at the very top, the Sage. Every one of them plays a style, not a dialed-down engine, so each rung puts a new person across the board. The first ten rungs are free and open from your very first game — nothing to unlock. Premium opens the other thirty at once. And any opponent you had already unlocked stays yours. Pull up a stool. Your next rival is waiting.