please follow this 主帖 to share your experiences or to pen your proposals, we could use the inputs here to put up a summary report for the considerations by SIXGA, various xiangqi clubs and the individual xiangqi lovers .....

the existing grading system of 象棋大师, 甲级棋士 and 乙级棋士 was implemented 21 years ago in 1987.

Each year, only

获公开Ａ组冠军；或亚军/ 季军达三次者，颁予象棋大师称号。

获公开Ａ组第二至第八名者，颁予甲级棋士称号。

获公开Ｂ组前四名者，颁予乙级棋士称号。

If we have many players without grade evenly distributed over whole Singapore (with 84 administrative divisions now, e.g. Bishan East is one of the 84 divisions), with 4 players promoted to Grade B (乙级棋士) each year, we need to wait for 21 years before one no-grade resident within the division to be promoted.

Could this be one of the reasons that not many students choose xiangqi as CCA ?

Should we have more lower grades system to encourage more players to come forward ? at least to encourage the students from young.

For the 32 players under Bishan Internal Grading System (2008), if we exclude the 6 graded players under SIXGA system, we still have 26 players with Bishan Grading Certificates, i.e. they are considered as no-grade players under the existing grading system of 象棋大师, 甲级棋士 and 乙级棋士.

Overheard two bishan players talking about to laminate their bishan grading cerficates with plastics, to show that they value the certificates although they know the bishan certificates have no official values.

This is also one of the reasons to motivate us to review the existing bishan grading system so that we could have an improved system for the 10th Anniversary Celebration.

为 象【棋】【启】动{劳驾} 【齐】心合力

to design a communication system so that all xiangqi organisations could inform SIXGA on their future xiangqi activities so that SIXGA could alert them in advance if there are other xiangqi activities during the same period.

Others could read from this Calendar to plan their annual leave etc.


为 象【棋】【启】动{劳驾} 【齐】心合力

为 象【棋】【启】动{劳驾} 【齐】心合力

this is a previous suggestion, just to group under the 主帖 here.

新加坡15年象棋活动记录 (1995/2009) to mark SIXGA 75th Anniversary Celebration at end 2009.

all the secretary-generals, 赛务主任 and 裁判主任 of SIXGA EXCO in these 15 years are the critical manpower needed to work on this task, others could be invited to join if free and having interests to help to compile the xiangqi history of Singapore in these 15 years.

In general, the Singapore xiangqi history of the first 60 years (1934 to 1994) were documented in the past three publications to mark SIXGA 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversaries.

为 象【棋】【启】动{劳驾} 【齐】心合力

what is the easiest way to inform all the schools regarding competitions ......

The organiser could consider to use the standard distribution list under the Civil Service or Ministry of Education Emailing System. Of course, the sender needs to access to the network, there are quite a number of standard distribution lists, e.g. all schools, all primary schools, all ..etc.

The worst situation is to type out the distribution list again if using personal mailing system or by posts.

I have explained and shared the method with SIXGA again. (Previously shared with SIXGA, the concern is more on how to get a sender within the emailing network, should be able to get a sender this time.)

I believe SIXGA will use a better communication system for future competitions for schools.

http://bbs.huasing.org/sForum/bbs.php?B=123_11027154

Method 1.2 – Manual System vs Computer System and Number of Rounds

We used 7-round swiss-pairing manual system for 第1届碧山杯小学象棋团体赛 in Nov 2003 (completed in 2 full days) as below :

(1) players to report results at counter

(2) manual pairing system

After visited 第1届茶阳杯小学象棋团体赛 at Nanyang Polytechnic in May 2004 (in fact, we visited 茶阳杯小学象棋团体赛 from 2004 to 2008) and decided to use computer pairing system in future years.

For 第2届碧山杯小学象棋团体赛 in Nov 2004, we used 9-round computer pairing system but still having players to report results at counter, from Round 1, we noticed that “players to report results at counter” took up a lot of times (we overlooked this problem under the manual system in 2003) and quite a big delay after Round 1, after assessment on the spot and the input from黄少龙中国象棋大师 (黄教授 mentioned this event in his article 漫谈象棋人才) regarding the usual method used in China, starting Round 2, we assigned a few workers to walk around to collect results from the players, we managed to slowly move back and keep to the original scheduled time at the end of Day 1. (completed in 1.5 days plus)

For 第3届碧山杯小学象棋团体赛 in Nov 2005, we used the same Sevilla 9-round computer pairing system but more workers were assigned to walk around to collect results from the players. (completed in 1.5 days minus)

For 第4届碧山杯小学象棋团体赛 in Nov 2006, we used the same Sevilla but 8-round computer pairing system and more workers were assigned to walk around to collect results from the players. (completed in 1 full day)

In 2003, we had only 7 rounds in 2 days due to manual system but ended up with the first 4 teams having the same major scores. We changed to 9 rounds for 2004 & 2005. For 2006, we changed again to 8 rounds for 2006 and managed to complete within one day.

Over the 4 years from 2003 to 2006, the only constant is “change” for 碧山杯小学象棋团体赛, in our original plan, we plan to organize it at least in alternate years from 2003 to 2007, i.e. minimum 3 times and maximum 5 times, and we missed a proper closing in 2007.

yesterday 邓章淦 asked whether Bishan to consider to promote the use of Bishan Grading System, e.g. to those xiangqi clubs within Central Singapore as a joint project or to discuss at the meeting chaired by SIXGA.

I told him that the Bishan Grading System is more for Bishan Xiangqi Club internal use, especially for the young members and adult members below the grades of 象棋大师, 甲级棋士 and 乙级棋士; and we have no plan to promote the use beyond Bishan Xiangqi Club other than the Bishan members.

邓会长 talked about this matter in last year 棋会联系会议.
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第二次象棋棋会联系会议

日期：七月二十四日 (2007年)
时间：晚上八时正
地点：象总会所


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4. 甘榜格南象棋会邓会长建议考虑用碧山棋会多级制度以鉴定棋手棋力。