Sittuyin — Burmese Chess Online
Play Burmese chess free online — the game starts with a placement phase where you decide where your king, general, elephants and horses go.
- Family
- Traditional chess of Asia
- Origin
- Myanmar
- Board
- 8 × 8 with diagonal markings
- Players
- 2
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Choose a mode inside the board: two players, vs computer, or online with a room code.
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About Sittuyin
The placement phase
Sittuyin begins with the pawns already on the board in a staggered line and the chariots in the corners. Players then alternate placing their remaining pieces — king, general, two elephants and two horses — anywhere behind their own pawn line. Choosing a setup is the first battle of the game.
The board carries two diagonal lines that mark the promotion squares and give the placement phase its visual structure.
How the pieces move
The general moves one square diagonally and the elephant one square diagonally or straight forward, exactly as in Makruk. Horses and chariots move like knights and rooks; pawns move one square forward and capture diagonally.
A pawn may promote to a general when it reaches the far diagonal, but only if your original general has already been captured — each side can have only one general on the board.
Winning the game
Checkmate wins and stalemate is a draw. Sittuyin is slow and deeply positional; with pieces that move only one square, tempo and structure matter more than raw material.