Chinese chess champion loses title after throwing himself in the bathtub

How do you celebrate when you achieve something big, like winning a big tournament? Maybe you’re jumping around with excitement, salty rivulets running down your face in a rush of emotions. Maybe grab a bottle of champagne and pop it like an NFL player after the Super Bowl. Or, if you are a 48-year-old Xiangqi (Chinese chess) player who has just won a major tournament, you could forego tradition entirely and poop in a hotel toilet for celebratory reasons.

According to reports from Business Insider And Global times, Yan Chenglong defeated a number of amateur players from Xiangqi on December 17th in Hainan Province. Chenglong beat his competitors one by one and was eventually crowned the “Xiangqi King” (Chinese chess master). For his triumph he received 100,000 yuan (approx. 13,000 dollars). But the next morning, reportedly after a night of partying, staff at the hotel where the players were stay ing said Chenglong had defecated in the bathtub. It’s strange and disgusting, yes, but the story doesn’t end there. Actually, far from it.

Of course, anal beads could also have been involved

After the incident, Chenglong’s victory was also questioned, particularly due to his behavior throughout the competition. As The Independent ReportsChinese social media posts accused him of “rhythmically tensing and releasing” to use an anal massager to pass data about the chessboard to a distant computer, which would then tell him what moves he was making on the chessboard should. Accordingly Business Insider

However, Chenglong denied the allegations, saying he had been playing chess at a high level for over 40 years and had suffered from diarrhea after drinking alcohol on the morning of December 18. According to Chenglong, he couldn’t make it to the toilet in time and just decided to use the bathtub because… I guess it was right there?

The Chinese Xiangqi Association, the country’s chess governing body, responded to the allegations against Chenglong on December 25, saying that every investigation into his actions had produced little or no provable results.

“Based on our understanding of the situation, it is currently impossible to prove that Yan cheated with ‘anal beads’ as speculated on social media,” CXA said in a statement The guard. “On the night of the 17th, Yan drank alcohol in his room with others, and then defecated in the bathtub of the room where he stayed on the 18th, an act that damaged hotel property, violated public order and morality. “had a negative impact on the Xiangqi competition and event and was of extremely bad character.”

The governing body stripped Chenglong of his championship belt, forced him to forfeit an undisclosed amount of his earnings and disqualified him from participating in Chinese chess competitions for a full year. Ugh, that’s a shitty punishment.

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This is not the first time that anal beads have appeared in a chess scandal. Here in the States, Grandmaster Hans Niemann was accused of using a rectal insertion device Beating world champion Magnus Carlsen in a shocking upset in September 2022. Niemann has denied the fraud allegations plenty, which leads to this A legal dispute arose between the two players, which was ultimately settled in August 2023. It’s ridiculous, but apparently people will do anything to get the W.