We heard about the case before 2005 ... but could not remember which year.

in normal years, only 4 players can be promoted to 乙级, those promoted should have their standards.

For 2005 & 2006, more promoted due to a combined system, in fact, I ranked 6th in 2005 out of 8 if we count only those players without grades, i.e. in normal year, I would not have my promotion, but due to the change of "exam system" in 2005, I got my Grade B.

Those promoted in 2006 under the same exam system as in 2005. More than 4 non-graded promoted too.

This could be one of the reasons that the Groups A & B systems are used again in 2007 ....

My xiangqi skill could be poor but this is not my problem.

How to settle it ? The easy way is to downgrade the bottom 10 or 20 % or the players which did not play for a number of years.

So, bls should talk to 象总会长 or 棋一生 since you know them for so many years.