As in Western chess, the object of Chinese chess is to capture the opponent’s king (also called general in Chinese chess), and each player starts with an army of 16 pieces (one side traditionally red, ...

The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang Yuefei and Wang ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under the traditional Chinese rules, a player's score was the maximum number ... Black makes the first move, then White, and so on in alternation until the end of the game. Only one stone can be ...