In 1988 I won the World Championship of Chinese Chess for Non-Chinese
in the Seven Stars Cup tournament in Beijing, China.
In order to win this title, I won two games against LAI Chi Kong (also
known as C. K. Lai) who won the Championship of Europe (Not the
Championship of Europe for Non-Chinese, but the Championship of Europe
for Everybody).
http://wxf.dyndns.org/xq/xqdb_index.html
As a result, I have been awarded the FM title by the World Chinese
Chess Federation. FM stands for "Foreign Master". I am one of only
three Westerners in the world to hold the FM title.
Take a look at
http://wxf.dyndns.org/xq/xqdb_index.html
under San Francisco where I was living at the time. You will see that
I have the FM title and I am listed as one of the best players in San
Francisco, including among the Chinese living there.
I am posting this just to satisfy Taylor Kingston and Phil ("Nearly an
IM") Innes who keep asking about this.
Sam Sloan
On 22 Nov 2006 08:08:54 -0800, "samsloan" <samhsloan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Since Bill Brock keeps questioning whether I really finished second in
>the World Championship of Chinese Chess for Non-Chinese in 1990 in
>Singapore and was given the Title "First Foreigner of Chinese Chess" in
>1988 in Beijing China, I would like to point out a fact that I just
>discovered myself, which is that I am listed as a Master of Chinese
>Chess with the World Chinese Chess Federation. WXF.
>
>As you can see, it is written in perfectly plain Chinese that I, Ismail
>Sloan, hold the FM Title as awarded by the World Xiangqi Federation.
>
>http://74.108.69.79/xq/xqdb_index.html
>
>I do not claim now to be really of master strength but, as long as I
>have the title, why not use it?
>
>And indeed I am using it because I am right now reprinting the great
>classic work on Chinese Coins, the "Illustrated Catalog of Chinese
>Coins" by Eduard Kann, published in 1954 in Hong Kong, and to be
>reprinted later today in 2006 by Sam Sloan and Ishi Press
>International.
>
>I am the only player of Chinese Chess in America to hold the FM title,
>which means "Foreign Master". Only two other westerners hold the title.
>One is in Canada and the other is in Germany.
>
>No. Chess Grandmaster Robert Huebner does not hold the FM title. He
>holds the lower title of NT.
>
>I can easily claim to be the strongest Western player of Chinese Chess
>in the USA and possibly the strongest in the Western World.
>
>Incidentally, a little question. When I finished second in the World
>Championship of Chinese Chess for Non-Chinese in Singapore in 1990, the
>winner was an Indian living in Singapore. I consider him to be a
>Westerner. On the other hand, India is not exactly in the West. So, I
>am excluding him here.
>
>My new book, Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins by Eduard Kann, will
>be sent to the printers later today. It will be in three volumes.
>
>
>0-923891-18-8 978-0-923891-18-3 Illustrated Catalog of Chinese
>Coins, Vol. 1
> Gold, Silver, Nickel and Aluminum
>
>0-923891-19-6 978-0-923891-19-0 Illustrated Catalog of Chinese
>Coins, Vol. 2
>
>0-923891-20-X 978-0-923891-20-X Illustrated Catalog of Chinese
>Coins, Vol. 3
>
>Sam Sloan
>
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