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

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 ...

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 ...

had already been banned for life for illegal activities such as match-fixing and games manipulation. The penalties stem from the investigations into the "Recording Gate" scandal in Chinese chess ...