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Xiangqi At The 2007 Asian Indoor Games
Xiangqi at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games was held in Macau International Shooting Range, Macau, China from 27 October to 30 October 2007. Medalists Medal table Results Men's individual rapid 27–29 October Men's individual standard 27–30 October Men's team standard 27–30 October Women's individual standard 27–30 October * Ngô Lan Hương of Vietnam tied with Chen Lichun in score but defeated the latter by one extra black-win to seize the gold medal. References Xiangqi database {{Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Board games 2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ... Events at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games Xiangqi competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Xiangqi At The 2009 Asian Indoor Games
Xiangqi at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games was held in Vietnam from 3 November to 7 November 2009. All events held in Hạ Long Pearl Hotel. There were four events in original program but both women's events were cancelled due to lack of entries. Medalists Medal table Results Men's individual rapid 6–7 November Men's team standard 3–5 November References Official sitewww.vietnamchess.com.vn (Xiangqi) {{Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Board games Board games at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, 2009 Events at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games Xiangqi competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lü Qin
Lü Qin (; born 10 August 1962) is a Chinese xiangqi grandmaster who is one of the world's best players in Xiangqi (Chinese chess). Career Lü Qin's major achievements in Xiangqi include the following: * Winner of Chinese National Xiangqi Individual Championship in 1986, 1988, 1999, 2003 and 2004. * Starter in the championship winning team of Guangdong in the Chinese National Xiangqi League in 1989, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006. * Winner of Asian Xiangqi Individual Championship in 1985. * Starter in the championship winning team of China in the World Xiangqi Championship in 1990, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2005. * Winner of the World Xiangqi Individual Championship in 1990, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2005. Personal life Lü Qin was born in Huiyang, Guangdong, China, in 1962. . ''stqiyuan.com''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Board Games At The Asian Indoor And Martial Arts Games
Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboard, a type of fiberboard * Particle board, also known as ''chipboard'' ** Oriented strand board * Printed circuit board, in computing and electronics ** Motherboard, the main printed circuit board of a computer * A reusable writing surface ** Chalkboard ** Whiteboard Recreation * Game board **Chessboard **Checkerboard * Board (bridge), a device used in playing duplicate bridge * Board, colloquial term for the rebound statistic in basketball * Board track racing, a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s * Boards, the wall around a bandy field or ice hockey rink * Boardsports * Diving board (other) Companies * Board International, a Swiss software vendor known for its business intelligence software tool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Teo Sim Hua
Teo Sim Hua (; 1943 – 11 January 2023) was a Singaporean xiangqi grandmaster. In 1990 she was the first winner of the women's event at the World Xiangqi Championship The World Xiangqi Championship is organised by the World Xiangqi Federation (WXF) and is held every two years since 1991. The inaugural edition took place in 1990 in Singapore. List of winners See also * List of world championships in mind s ..., beating Huang Yuying by two points.程明松 (编). 《象棋大百科 下》. 成都时代出版社. 2010: 431. ranslation: Cheng Mingsong (ed.). "Xiangqi Encyclopedia". Chengdu Times Publishing House. 2010: 431./ref> From 1980 to 1988 she was the runner-up in five Asian Xiangqi Championships ( zh). In 1991 she was runner-up in the second World Championships held in Kunming. In 2003, she won the second place in the Asian Chess Individual Championship ( zh). In 2007, she won the women's individual bronze medal in chess at the Second Asian Indoor Games. She die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Lichun
Chen or Ch'en may refer to: People *Chen (surname) (陳 / 陈), a common Chinese surname *Chen (singer) (born 1992), member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO * Chen Chen (poet) (born 1989), Chinese-American poet * (), a Hebrew first name or surname: ** Hen Lippin (born 1965), former Israeli basketball player ** Chen Kugel (born 1962), Israeli pathologist who did an autopsy on Yahya Sinwar ** Chen Reiss (born 1979), Israeli operatic soprano ** Ronen Chen (born 1965), Israeli fashion designer Historical states *Chen (state) (c. 1045 BC–479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state in present-day Anhui and Henan *Chen (Thessaly), a city-state in ancient Thessaly, Greece * Chen Commandery, a commandery in China from Han dynasty to Sui dynasty *Chen dynasty (557–589), a Chinese southern dynasty during the Northern and Southern dynasties period Businesses and organizations * Council for Higher Education in Newark (CHEN) * Chen (), acronym in Hebrew for the Women's Army Corps (, ) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ngô Lan Hương
Ngô is a Vietnamese surname. Notable people with the surname Ngô *Ngô Đình Diệm family **Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician and final prime minister of the State of Vietnam **Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and archivist and politician **Ngô Đình Khả, father of Ngô Đình Diệm and high-ranking Catholic mandarin in the Court of the Emperor Thành Thái of Nguyễn dynasty **Ngô Đình Khôi, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician **Ngô Đình Cẩn, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician ** Ngô Đình Luyện, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and diplomat ** Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and Roman Catholic Archbishop Academia *Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese mathematician; Fields Medal winner (2010) *Ngô Sĩ Liên, Vietnamese historian and expert on the Lê dynasty * Ngô Viết Thụ, Vietnamese architect *Ngô Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet Media * Ngô Bá Khá (b. 1993), Internet personality b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wong Chi Keung (xiangqi)
Kirk Wong (黃志強; born March 28, 1949) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. Wong is best known for action films '' Crime Story'' and '' The Big Hit''. Wong's other films like ''Health Warning'', '' Organized Crime & Triad Bureau'', and '' Rock N'Roll Cop'' have gained admiration from fans of action films. Career Acting Wong's roles in the 1980s included Sergeant Sam Liang in ''Danger Has Two Faces'' (1985), Inspector Lau in '' Legacy of Rage'', and Inspector Philip Chan in ''Forever Young'' (1989) (not to be confused with the Steve Miner directed, Mel Gibson starring 1992 film of the same name). His roles in the 1990s included Dai Anfen in '' God of Gamblers II'' (1990), Crazy Bull in ''Twin Dragons'' (1992), and Yuan Pa Tien in ''The Mad Monk'' (1993), as well as a cameo appearance in ''Police Confidential'' (1995). Filmmaking Wong made his directing debut with the 1981 film '' The Club'', alongside Michael Chan and Kent Cheng. In 1983, Wong directed the film ''Health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chiu Yu Kuen
Chiu is a romanization of various Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. It may correspond to the surnames spelled in the following ways in Mandarin pinyin: * Zhào () or Zhāo (), from the Cantonese pronunciation * Zhāng (), from the Hokkien pronunciation; more commonly spelled Teoh or Teo * Zhōu (), from the Hokkien pronunciation * Qiū () or Qiú (), from a variant of the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling Ch'iu * Jiù (), from the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling Notable people * Angie Chiu (; born 1954), Hong Kong actress * Only Won (born Baldwin Chiu, 1974), American musician, actor, and producer * Chiu Ban It (; 1918–2016), Singaporean Anglican bishop * Barbara Chiu, Canadian table tennis player * Ben Chiu (; born 1970), Taiwan-born American technology entrepreneur * Bondy Chiu (; born 1973), Hong Kong actress and singer * Bryan Chiu (born 1974), Canadian football player; centre in the Canadian Football League * Caroline Chiu (; born 1984), Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Trịnh A Sáng
Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name. It exists in equivalent forms in other languages of the Sinosphere such as ( 鄭, Zheng, Cheng) in Chinese and Korean (Jeong, Chung). Families that bear the surname Trịnh are exclusively Vietnamese. The surname further proliferated following the reign of the Trịnh lords in Tonkin. Notable people *Trịnh lords, A noble feudal clan that wielded de facto power in Northern Vietnam between the 16th-18th centuries. Opposed the Nguyễn lords of Southern Vietnam through a series of civil wars. *Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese musician * Eugene Huu Chau Trinh, the first Vietnamese-American astronaut *Trịnh Như Khuê, First Cardinal of the Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi *Trịnh Văn Căn, Second Cardinal of Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi *Trinh Xuan Thuan, Big Bang theorist/scientist *Trinh T. Minh-ha, Filmmaker *François Trinh-Duc, French rugby union player of Vietnamese descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nguyễn Thành Bảo
Nguyễn (阮) (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as ''Nguyen''. By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname.Lê Trung Hoa, ''Họ và tên người Việt Nam'', NXB Khoa học - Xã hội, 2005 Origin and usage is the transcription of the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the character 阮, which originally was used to write a name of a state in Gansu or ruan, an ancient Chinese instrument. The same Chinese character is often romanized as in Mandarin and as in Cantonese. The first recorded mention of a person surnamed Nguyễn is a description dating AD 317, of a journey to Giao Châu undertaken by Eastern Jin dynasty officer Nguyễn Phu and his family. Many events in Vietnamese history have contributed to the name's prominence. In 1232, after usurping the Lý dynasty, Trần Thủ Độ forced the descendants of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Liu Dahua
Liu (; or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'battle axe', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text Hundred Family Surnames. Today, it is the 4th most common surname in mainland China as well as one of the most common surnames in the world. Distribution In 2019 劉 was the fourth most common surname in mainland China. Additionally, it was the most common surname in Jiangxi province. In 2013 it was found to be the 5th most common surname, shared by 67,700,000 people or 5.1% of the population, with the province with the most people being Shandong.中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Origin One source is that they descend from the Qí (祁) clan of Emperor Yao. For example, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty (one of China's golden ages), Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) was a descend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Xiangqi
Xiangqi (; ), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, chess, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess. Besides China and areas with significant ethnic Chinese communities, this game is also a popular pastime in Vietnam, where it is known as , literally 'General's chess', in contrast with Western chess or ', literally 'King's chess'. The game represents a battle between two armies, with the primary object being to checkmate the enemy's general (king). Distinctive features of xiangqi include the cannon (''pao''), which must jump to capture; a rule prohibiting the generals from facing each other directly; areas on the board called the ''river'' and ''palace'', which restrict the movement of some pieces but enhance that of others; and the placement of the pieces on the intersections of the board lines, rather th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
