The Chinese Xiangqi Association was founded in 1962 as a member of the All-China Sports Federation

All-China Sports Federation

The All-China Sports Federation is a national non-governmental, non-profit sports organization in China. It oversees a wide array of sports associations in the country....

 promoting Xiangqi

Xiangqi

Xiangqi is a two-player Chinese board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, shogi, Indian chess and janggi. The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese chess in English. Xiangqi is one of the most popular board games in China...

, or Chinese chess, and is based in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

. It is among the founding members of the Asian Xiangqi Federation, and since 1975 has been a member of the International Xiangqi Federation. In addition to organising and hosting Xiangqi tournaments, it is responsible for publishing approximately 95% of Xiangqi books and other publications on the subject in China

China

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