The foreign contingent According to Kim Laurent, chairman of the Chinese chess association in France, textbooks on Chinese chess have long been available in French and German, and non-Chinese faces can be seen everywhere at Chinese chess competitions in Europe. Westerners have not been playing the sport for very long, though, so they cannot beat the Chinese players.
法國象棋總會會長黃秋鵬表示，在歐洲，德文、法文的棋譜早就出現，歐洲各國舉辦象棋賽時，也處處可見非華人面孔，只是歐美人士下象棋的歷史還不夠悠久，下不過華人。