There’s playing dirty, and then there’s celebrating dirty, and allegations of both have gotten the newly crowned king of Chinese chess unceremoniously dethroned. As AFP.
There’s playing dirty, and then there’s celebrating dirty, and allegations of both have gotten the newly crowned king of Chinese chess unceremoniously dethroned. As AFP reports, Yan Chenglong on Dec. 17 won the national title of “Xiangqi King,” or king of Chinese chess, a hugely popular game in Asia dating back centuries. Things get a bit scatological from there, else the West would perhaps have paid the victory no mind: On Monday, the 48-year-old was relieved of his crown and his prize money, which the Telegraph reports was about $14,000, after what the Chinese Xiangqi Association called Yan’s “disrupting [of] public order” and “extremely bad character,” per AFP.
