A friend passed a xiangqi records book to me last night(shown below). This is a compilation of 1974 China Individuals at Chengdu by Macpherson Community Centre Xiangqi Research Club. Just from this we could derive that Singapore Xiangqi was very active in 1970s as just a C.C. xiangqi club could compile such information at that time. If you have a chance to read the SIXGA's books for 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversary Celebrations in 1974,1984 and 1994, you will have much more information regarding Singapore Xiangqi before 1994. At this point, I feel very disappointed that when I started to pay attention to Singapore Xiangqi at end 1998, I could not know much about the activity level, e.g. what are the xiangqi activities in the coming 12 months? what were the activities in the pass three years ? When 白贵忠先生 and 毛瑞发先生 (设计象总会徽)离开人间 in 2005 and 2006 respectively (if I could recall, the passed away of 白贵忠先生 in Mar 2005 was highlighted in 2005 SIXGA's Newsletter No. 9 but I did not read about 设计象总会徽 的 毛瑞发先生 passed away in Jun 2006 in the Newsletter No. 10 published in Oct 2006 or in any other way to inform SIXGA's members), we are going to lost more and more xiangqi information over times if we do not start to do something to capture Singapore Xiangqi Information, say since 1994. May be we should think about to compile Xiangqi Activities and Clubs in Singapore since, say 1994 as 10 years 团体联赛 started in 1995, last two seasons were at 2003年(9th season)武吉甘柏与2004年(10th season)裕华, if we could have such information by Nov 2008, then this could be a record to show to all Asian countries about Singapore Xiangqi Activities and Clubs in the past, say 15 years. To do a good job, at least all the past and present Secretary Generals of SIXGA since 1994 and some other important committee members should treat this as their responsibilities to keep records for Singapore Xiangqi in their capacities in (our National level organisation) SIXGA's EXCO, either past or present.
