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World Xiangqi Championship
Xiangqi: SHAHNG-chee, IPA /ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/; Chinese 象棋, Mandarin pinyin xiàngqí
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The World Xiangqi Championship is the leading international tournament of Xiangqi. Its own third edition, held in Beijing in 1993, doubled as the founding conference of the World Xiangqi Federation, the sport's governing body, attended by representatives of twenty countries and regions across Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia; Huo Yingdong of Hong Kong became the first president of the federation. Preparatory work toward a permanent federation had begun in October 1988, five years before that founding conference.
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Host HistoryHeld in Beijing for its third edition in 1993, the year its governing federation was founded there; editions before and after have rotated among member nations across Asia, Europe and the Americas. 1 Learn More
Twenty Nations at the Table: The 1993 Beijing Conference
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The list of places represented at the 1993 founding conference is itself a small history lesson in how far Xiangqi had already traveled beyond China by the time it got a federation. Delegations came from across Asia, where the game's family shares deep roots, but also from Europe, the Americas and Australia, regions with no ancestral chess tradition of their own but with communities, largely built through overseas Chinese migration, that had kept the game alive far from its origin.
Electing Huo Yingdong of Hong Kong as the first president placed the new federation's leadership close to one of the game's largest overseas playing populations rather than to the mainland alone, a choice that reflected where organizational energy and resources for the sport had actually concentrated rather than only where the game had originated centuries earlier.
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