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 ...

Often compared to chess, xiangqi is a centuries-old board game with deep ... Leaked phone recordings revealed match-fixing schemes involving two grandmasters, Wang Yuefei and Hao Jichao. The ...

The Uzbek city of Samarkand is preparing to host one of the world's most important chess events from 3-15 September. The Women's Grand Swiss will ...

The ‘Magnus Carlsen of Chinese chess’ receives life-time ban The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang Yuefei and Wang Tianyi.

Tianyi was also the No.1 player for a decade. The suspension of Chines chess (Xiangqi) players began after “Recording Gate” scandal. In April 2023, audio clips claiming Wang Yuefei and Hao Jichao ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump the "greatest friend Israel has ever had" after their meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday. After the president's remarks ...

This is not just a testament to their individual brilliance but also a reflection of how far Indian chess has come as a collective force," Sreekar Channapragada, an avid chess follower and co ...

Indian president Droupadi Murmu honoured D Gukesh, the youngest world chess champion, with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. At 18, Chennai-born Gukesh stunned everyone and won the World ...

Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, has taken out a full-page ad in The Washington Post asking the Trump administration to invest more in AI. Wang, who attended Trump’s inauguration on Monday ...