On the 27th and 28th of October German Xiangqi Association (DXB) celebrated its 20-Year-Birthday in Hamburg Yu-Yuan-Teahouse.
An event of China-Xiangqi-Day and the 19th German Xiangqi Individual Championship was held sponsored by Hamburg Confucius Institute and Zhong-Munich Business (Europe) GmbH.
Meanwile a side-tournament of Hansa-Horse Cup and the Children Alster Cup were carried out in parallel.
 
Chinese General Consul in Hamburg Mr. Yang Huiqun has attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech and made the first symbolic move.
About 40 local players aged from 8 to 70 has participated in the Xiangqi tournament including a Finnish guest player Mikko Tornqvist.
 
The first Xiangqi tournament dated back to 1992 in Hamburg and it is a destiny that the celebration goes back to the starting point after 20 years.
For the past 20 years DXB has achieved a lot with a "mass production" of Xiangqi-Masters. Till now the qualifiers in Germany are 3 WXF Federal Master, 1 EXF Grandmaster, 5 EXF Master (including 1 Female), 16 EXF NCNV Master. Besides, 6 German Xiangqi Grandmaster and 10 German Master have been generated in DXB.
 
The success story of promoting Xiangqi in the Hamburg Confucius Institute is recognized as a model and expected to be followed suit in other countries.

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Weitere Berichte / more reports in german language:
 
   Martin Berger (Leonberg)
   Guido Freyer (Steinwiesen) - Turniersieger des Hansa-Pferd-Pokals

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Und zum Abschluß noch einige Impressionen aus der Hansestadt:

Neben dem EXF hat auch der DXB die Vergabe von (nationalen) Titeln mit dem WXF abgestimmt.
Die dafür vorgesehene Vergabeordnung wird aktuell noch überarbeitet, nachfolgend zum Start der Saison 2012/2013 aber die aktuelle Liste der nationalen Titelträger.

DXB Großmeister	DXB Meister
Michael Nägler Norbert Schäfer Karsten Hoffarth Zhang Zhang Pu Fangyao Xue Zhong	Lam Keang Chhay Huang Xuekong Pu Minggang Nguyen Hung Stefan Scholz Hajo Siewert Joachim Schmidt-Brauns Claus Tempelmann Lai Hop Duong Weng Hanming

Allen Titelträgern der letzten 20 Jahre die herzlichsten Glückwünsche!

The newly founded EXF Evaluation and Qualification Committee is pleased to announce the issuing of EXF titles, authorized also by Ms Shan Xiali, WXF Director of Title and Qualification.

After thoroughly reviewing the results of the last decades, the following initial list of titulars has been provided:

Country	EXF Grandmaster	EXF Master	EXF NCNV Master
Finland			Raimo Lindroos Jouni Ramo Mikko Tornqvist
France	Nicolas Dang Hua Say Ty Woo Wei Cheung	Chen Techao Cao Quoc Chi Huynh Vinh Tuong Phung Kim Dang Kong Vong	Olivier Thill
Germany	Pu Fangyao	Zhang Zhang Hajo Siewert Xue Zhong Chen Jun   Wu Caifang (female)	Robert Hübner Stefan Scholz Jan Berents Claus Tempelmann Norbert Schäfer Michael Nägler Siegfried Huber Karsten Hoffarth Joachim Schmidt-Brauns Simon Henke Andreas Klein Reinhard Knab Stephan Bradler Rudolf Reinders Uwe Frischmuth Jörn Tessen
Italy	He Zhimin	Hu Yunxi	Carlo Veronesi
Netherlands	Ye Rongguang Cheung Wing On	Ng Wing San Huang Y.K. Wang Huichuan	Gert Greeuw
Russia			Dimitry Rumyantsev
Sweden		Jiang Thanh Hon
United Kingdom	Lai Chi Kong Huang Chunlong Chen Fazuo	Luckboon Young   Guo Shulong (female)	Paul Byway Alain Dekker

All potential titulars are asked to submit the EXF title application form to the Evaluation and Qualification Committee: pufangyao [AT]msn [dot] com. Besides the issuing of the title and the master certificate EXF will be able to keep in contact with its titulars in the future.

Reported by

Pu Fangyao
Evaluation and Qualification Committee of EXF

During the 2nd IMSA World Mind Sport Games the following replacement of leadership and routine management was published:

• Executive Presidents
• Dr. Michael Naegler (Germany)
• Mr. Wa Chong Ding (Netherlands)
• Promotion Committee
• Xue Zhong (Germany)
• Dr. Rene Gralla (Germany)
• Mikko Tornqvist (Finland)
• Evaluation and Qualification Committee
• Siegfried Huber (Germany)
• Pu Fangyao (Germany)
• Arnout de Leeuw (Netherlands)
• EXF Spokesmen and General Coordinator
• Xue Zhong (Germany)

Reported by

Xue Zhong
European Commissioner of the WXF Promotion Committee

On the 18th and 19th of February in the historic city of Nuremberg in Germany, 26 Xiangqi plays has participated in the German Xiangqi Federal League (Bundesliga) which entered the 20th year anniverssary. German Xiangqi Association (DXB) has initiated the Xiangqi Bundeslige in 1992, and this traditional tournament has attracted over 100 Xiangqi fans, most of them are German natives who come from International Chess background. The German Bundesliga has 4 tournaments in a year season held respectively in Hannover, Nuremberg, Lingen and Jena. Braunschweig, Hamburg and Munich used to be the alternatives for the past few years. All the players are volutary to choose attending two or more tournaments and the sum of the best two scores will be evaluated as the prequalification to the finals in Berlin every summer in July or August. Top 6 will be invited to participate in the German Xiangqi Championship fighting for the Deutscher-Master. Along with the finals an invitational open tournament named Berlin Summer Cup is held at the same time and open for all the Xiangqi fans.

2012 is the Chinese Culture Year in Germany. To celebrate the 20-Year Anniverssary, DXB will hold the German Xiangqi Championship including Berlin Summer Cup initially scheduled on July 28-29. The event will be sponsored by Chinese Embassy and Confucius Institute in Berlin. A Xiangqi-Master delegation will be invited from China to make a show and promote Xiangqi during the tournament. Teenager players and Xiangqi fans from China are welcome to join the Berlin Summer Cup!

You-tube:

Video 1 - Opening of German Bundesliga in Nuremberg
Video 2 - First round tournament