Eighteen months after leaked recordings revealed widespread match-fixing in the board game xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess, China has imposed lifetime bans on three grandmasters. Announced last ...

Xiangqi, commonly known as Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is a game where both players battle against each other with two armies, and the main objective is to ...

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 ...

A total of 41 individuals, including prominent players of the board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess, have been penalized for their involvement in cheating scandals, announced the sport's ...

"Xiangqi [Chinese chess] and Go have a much broader base ... It is not only in China and India that the traditional board game is booming. In Uzbekistan, Iran and Kazakhstan, too, more and more ...