Canadian Xiangqi Championships


The Canadian Xiangqi Championships is a bi-annual event that was first organized by Vancouver Chinese Chess Association in 1987. It was originally just a team competition between Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto. Since 1989, the individual event was introduced as well. In 1991, with the participation from Montreal and Winnipeg, this event has become the National Xiangqi Championships of Canada. Also since 1991, a Chinese Xiangqi Team with Grand Master(s) is invited each time as the honorary guests to visit various cities in North America to help promoting Xiangqi. Unfortunately, this special Chinese Team visit was stopped with the Canadian Embassy in Beijing rejected the Chinese Team visa applications three times in a row since 2000.

 

The team event is based on the result of a round robin match between all participated cities. Each team is consisted of 3 players and with the top board represented by the champion of each city for that year. The individual event is based on the result of the top board. According to the regulation by the Organization Committee, any city that could win the Team Champion three times will be honoured the Team Trophy permanently.

 

In 1998, Toronto finally won its 3rd team title and was honoured the Team Trophy permanently. A new Team Trophy was acquired in 2000.  In 2002, Toronto claimed its first individual Champion and Huang Yuying became the first Canadian Woman Champion.

 

Canadian Xiangqi Championships Records

No

Year

Host City

Team Champion

1st

Runner-up

2nd

Runner-up

3rd

Runner-up

Individual Champion

1

1987

Vancouver

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver

Toronto

Not Organized

2

1989

Calgary

Vancouver

Calgary

Toronto

Edmonton

Calgary - RuoChi Jiang

3

1991

Edmonton

Calgary

Toronto

Edmonton

Vancouver

Edmonton - Dau Ung

4

1993

Toronto

Toronto

Calgary

Edmonton

Winnipeg

Calgary - John ZhongQi Ji

5

1994

Montreal

Vancouver

Calgary

Edmonton

Toronto

Vancouver - John ZiHan Li

6

1996

Vancouver

Toronto

Vancouver

Edmonton

Calgary

Calgary - JingYuan Wang

7

1998

Calgary

Toronto

Calgary

Vancouver

Edmonton

Calgary - JingYuan Wang

8

2000

Edmonton

Edmonton

Calgary

Vancouver

Toronto

Calgary - JingYuan Wang

9

2002

Toronto

Toronto

Calgary

Vancouver

Edmonton

Toronto – YuYing Huang

Calgary - JingYuan Wang

10

2004

Vancouver

Toronto 

 

 

 

Toronto - XiMing Zheng