A total of 41 Xiangqi (Chinese chess) players were penalized, including grandmasters Zhao Xinxin, Wang Yang and Zheng Weitong. The three players were banned for life and stripped of their technical ...

With reigning Asian Games champion and several grandmasters banned for life, the latest crackdown on corruption in xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has exposed a serious integrity crisis tarnishing the ...

The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang ... of player promotions.” Xiangqi, commonly known as Chinese chess, is a strategy ...

In-form Chinese grandmaster (GM) Wang Hao beat GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili of Georgia in the seventh round to widen his lead to a full point in the homestretch of the fourth Al Ain Chess Classic at ...