黃學謙

English

Wong Hok Him is a Hong Kong xiangqi (Chinese chess) player, an International Grandmaster and an Asian Grandmaster, and one of Hong Kong's six top-ranked international grandmasters. He has won the Hong Kong individual championship (top division) three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2017, and he also won the overseas section of the fourth Yang Guanlin Cup National Xiangqi Open. In 2011 he finished runner-up in the individual xiangqi event at the first World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, and in 2019 he took two second places at the 16th World Xiangqi Championship. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the xiangqi events at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, playing with Chan Chun Kit, Fung Ga Zen and Lam Ka Yan in the mixed team event, where Hong Kong took bronze; xiangqi, which had featured at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, returned to the programme at that edition, and Hong Kong, China took 53 medals in all - eight gold, 16 silver and 29 bronze. Wong has long been a mainstay of the Hong Kong xiangqi squad, competing regularly at Asian and world level, and is one of the territory's most prominent players.