"China's top chess player" Wang Tianyi sentenced, five other grandmasters also convicted.

Zhao Xinxin, Wang Tianyi, Hong Zhi, Xie Jing, Xu Chao, Wang Yuefei and six other Chinese chess masters, known for their high level of skill in the game of Chinese chess, had the verdict pronounced in the "buying and selling chess" case. According to the news from Cover News, on September 24, the case was publicly pronounced in the Shangcheng District Court of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Hong Zhi, the only one who did not plead guilty, was sentenced to two years and seven months, according to his defense lawyer Sun Xiaoyang, while the rest of the five defendants received a judgment "similar to the prosecutor's suggestion". Previously, Wang Tianyi was sentenced to a two-year and nine-month term and a fine for the crimes of bribing non-state personnel and receiving bribes as a non-state official. Zhao Xinxin was sentenced to a four-year and nine-month term and a fine for the same set of crimes.