World’s top player to take on Toronto’s best in both Xiangqi and Undercover Xiangqi on Canada Day

Wang Tianyi

Canada Day 2020 – July 1 – is also the 32nd anniversary of the Toronto Xiangqi Association. To celebrate, we have challenged the world’s hghest-ranked Xiangqi player to do battle with Toronto’s four top players. And in what is possibly a first for an event of this nature, the match will include both conventional and undercover ...

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Leading Chinese Xiangqi broadcaster offers free online classes for children

Xiangqi master Chen Dong

The Chinese version of this post can be found at www.meipian.cn. Xiangqi Master and online broadcaster Chen Dong of Inner Mongolia, together with the Toronto and Markham Xiangqi Associations, will be offering a free online program to introduce Xiangqi to young overseas Chinese people, and help them experience the profundity of traditional Chinese culture. The first online ...

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“Working together to share” makes two more deliveries

Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital

Since the beginning of the "Working Together to Share" campaign, and our initial deliveries to Markham and Scarborough, we’ve made two more deliveries and introduced a donations page that permits secure donations using PayPal. As always, the deliveries were made in cooperation with city officials and consisted of supplies that were verified with the help of ...

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“I feel extremely blessed that we could offer our assistance”

Scarborough General Hospotital healthcare workers

I received pictures yesterday from front line medical workers at Scarborough General Hospital wearing our masks and shields. I feel extremely blessed that we could offer our assistance. We delivered 5,000 masks to Scarborough General Hospital as part of our Working Together to Share campaign. Thank you to all the enthusiastic people who have so far contributed ...

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GTA Xiangqi clubs raise $30,000 to buy masks for local hospitals in one week; deliveries made to Markham and Scarborough

Delivery to Scarborough General Hospital

To contribute, please visit the Working Together to Share donations page. Concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Great Toronto Area, the Toronto Xiangqi Association (TXA) and the Markham Xiangqi Association (MXA) began a fundraising program called "Working Together to Share" on March 25. The program quickly received support from Markham City Councillor, Alan ...

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Working together to share

Markham Stouffville Hospital

Markham Stouffville Hospital To contribute, please visit the Working Together to Share donations page. The campaign began with a post at meipian8.cn. The spread of covid 19 virus infection in Canada is getting worse! Our frontline medical staff are seriously lacking in equipment to deal with the pandemic, and we need everyone to help us. As residents ...

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