The first two rounds of our new year's tournament took place on Saturday in a crowded store area in Markham's New Kennedy Square Mall. Zhang ShanHang 张善行 and Victor Liu BoYang 刘博洋 share the lead, each with two points. Full results are below. In addition, there was lots of casual play for all levels and ...
There will be lots of Xiangqi action at Kennedy Square (Highway 7 and Kennedy) to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The TXA and the Scarborough Seniors Club are organizing the 2011 Kennedy Square Xiangqi Open, a free tournament that you can play in. Or you can come out to watch, play casually, and enjoy the New ...
Congratulations to Vancouver, winner of the 2010 North American championships held this weekend in Chicago. Second place went to Houston and third to New York. Toronto finished ninth. The individual champion is Hu YuShan of Houston, who edged out Yue YouKe of LA on tie-break points. Third place went to Do YoGi of USA Center Vietnam ahead ...
Lin ShiXiong 林世雄 is the 2010 Toronto championship, after beating Li DongHui 李东辉 in their two game match. After the first game was drawn, Lin won the second, handing Li his first loss of the tournament - Li had won the Swiss portion outright with 5.5/6, his one draw being against Lin. It was Lin's second trip to the final ...
Li DongHui 李东辉 is the outright winner of the Swiss tournament portion of the Toronto Open Championship, and will play Lin ShiXiong 林世雄 in a match for the title on Saturday November 13.
Here is a gallery of images from rounds one and two of the 2010 Toronto Open Championship at the Milliken Park Community Center in Toronto. Among the participants is Xu LuHua 徐露华, the son of the famous Chinese grandmaster, Xu TianHong, a former world and Chinese champion. In Round Two, Xu drew against defending Toronto champion Li ...
The World Xiangqi Championships will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2011. Here's a news release: 世界象棋锦标赛明年底雅加达登场 中新网10月27日电 据印尼《星洲日报》报道，印度尼西亚象棋总会(PEXI)总主席林仲平23日宣布，将于2011年底，在雅加达举办世界象棋锦标赛，预计将吸引由来自世界50多个国家与地区，逾500名象棋好手参加。 他指出，举办世界象棋锦标赛主要是为了推广印度尼西亚的中华文化，并加强国内象棋选手与世界各国的交流，并表示PEXI非常庆幸，能够担任2年1次的世界象棋锦标赛的主办单位。 他是于23日在帝王印度尼西亚风味海鲜酒楼带领其它理监事，包括伍展利、林进强、李丕江、黄盈见、叶毓强、魏才程、张敬和、郭居仁及张国源，就该事举行新闻发布会上，如是表示。 他补充道，举办国际性比赛的其它主要目的，也是为了提高国家和民族形象，提升印度尼西亚象棋选手水准，并带动印度尼西亚旅游业的发展。 “希望国内各地区象棋协会利用比赛前的时间，加强选手们的比赛素质和经验，希望能够重演2009年的辉煌成绩。” 众所周知，2009年在中国山东省举行的世界象棋锦标赛，来自印度尼西亚邦加勿里洞的伊宛，在参加非华裔/非越裔组比赛，以优越的成绩夺冠，同时，1986年在香港举行的亚洲象棋锦标赛，印度尼西亚代表团也赢得第4名。
Lin ShiXiong and Li DongHui share joint first place with 3.5 points out of four in the 2010 Toronto Xiangqi Open, Toronto's championship of Chinese chess. In Round Four of the initial Swiss tournament, Lin beat reigning Toronto champion Richard Li YaChao, avenging his defeat by Li in last year's final. The tournament is taking place ...
