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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930...

CHINESE WAR

GAME!

new AN INTRICATE TEST: PLAYERS

STRANGLE EACH OTHER

A Chinese was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning sentenced

DECOROUS GAMES

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and shouted so much that they be

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came ashamed of their bad be haviour. enying. Our friends, who are playing Wet-Chi on the floor | above are intent on their games and too well-mannered to make any look. nolzė?» Going upstairs to they found the two Wei-Chi experts were setting à dispute about "knot" by strangling one another to one month's hard labour for A few years ago mahjongg was in a polite silencel

The War Game- stealing five iron bars from a house a popular craze, and for a time a

rival under construction, while another serious

to bridge, saYR This historic war-game resembles Chinese was given three months writer in the Literary-Supplement actual warfare in that its strategy for stealing six bundles of firewood. of The Times. It is seldom played is very easy to understand, but to-day, even by those who becamo some of the tactical applications Under the auspices of the experts and found it a profitable thereof are very difficult Indeed. It University Engineering Society a gambling game. The more scientis played on a aquare board, lecture entitled "Elements ofac pastime called Wei-Chi (from which are drawn at equal intervala Television" will be given by Pre-wel, which means to "encircle," nineteen lines, crossing nineteen fessor M.H. Roffey, D.S.O., M.Sc., and chi, which means "place" or other equi-distant lines at right M.I.E.E., on Friday, March 14, at "man") Involves such a complex angles, thus forming 361 points of MEN'S

8.45 p.m. in the main building of and prolonged struggle, if it be intersection. The men are placed the University. The general played with any degres of skill on these points, not in the squares; WOOLLEN

public are invited to attend. that it is unlikely to have a greater the players sit opposite each other, appeal for gamblers than chess or one taking the white and the other GOLF

The Chinese driver of a Sanitary draughts. A form of it, known as the black men, and they deposit a Department

driving along the "Japanese War-Game," has long man on an intersection point of Communication Jordan Rond on Saturday, when been familiar to the present writer, "place" in turn. HOSE.

a Chinese suddenly ran across the who has had contests lasting a exists only along the horizontal and any Anglo-Australian vertical lines, not diagonally; and road near the junction of Shanghai long nå

He "Test" and the illustrative gamepoints are scored by occupying or Street and was knocked down. sustained injuries to his left leg, played in 1763 between two famous effectively guarding places or sure and was removed to the Kowloon masters, Fan and Su-did not end rounding groups of hostile men so

until the 341st move. On this that their communications Hospital.

tremendous occasion Su, whose closed up, whereupon they become Professor R. Robertson, M.A., style was as laboriously defensive "dead" and may be removed. The president of the Arts Association as that of the Vienna chess mastera main object, then, of each player of the University, will deliver his who always tried to keep the draw is to make effective encirclements. on "Utoplas, in hand (was not English, for in the opening both players place presidential address Ancient and Modern" on Thursday, example known as "the great draw their men near the sides of the at 8 p.m. in the Union Assembly ing master?"), beat his brilliant board, where it is easiest to form and audacious opponent by two safe bases for development towards Room of the University.

no the centre. When the opposing lecture is open to the public and all and-a-half points. There was

time limit, but wo are not told how forces comes into contact the actual Interested are cordially invited.

long the historic struggle lasted. battle begins and proceeds in at-

Unhurried Moves

tacks, defensive stratagems and Flayers of Wei-Chi never hurried counter-attacks. The general lines over their moves as appears from of the struggle are thus determin-

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of arms has been tried for the last 18 years, but with what result? It is appalling even to conjecture the untold misery caused to her populace. The vast territory of Shantung, Chihli, and Hunan pro- vinces have literally been stripped,

was

The

Seeing that no one claimed some clothing on a Canton boat, a Chi- When nese thought that he would.

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he get on to the wharf a searcher the following anecdote of an ened, and each player then en- thusiastic spectator. He was a deavours to extend his forces into stopped him and questioned him as to the possession of the bundle, wood-cutter, and, going into the the territory which remains free équal level with the foreign which consisted of female silk forest with his axe, discovered two among the hostile masses, until no

Unable to give a satis-old men playing beneath a pine more vacant places are left. Powers, she must put her house clothing.

Illusion of Simplicity in order first. Until that is done, factory explanation, he was charged tree. He stopped to watch

It all seems very simple; but we it is no use agitating for the sud-at the Kowloon Magistracy this game, placing his are on

sentenced to six ground. When it was finished he have here the illusion of simplicity morning and

The clothes that the axe helve had rotted; which the chess player thinks he den and complete abolition of ex-weeks' hard labour.

were ordered to be confiscated, as moreover, on returning home, he sees in draughts, that turns out to trality.

found that not a single person of present aubtler points and requires his generation was left alive. Unification of China by force to claimant had been found.

more far-reaching calculations than Chess players are familiar with this his own apparently more complex dind of exaggerated chaff. Fan, at and profound pastime. No chess any rate, was not such a tedious master (not even Pillsbury) has player as his great antagonist. For ever been a really first-rate player when he died this poem by Youn of draughts, which Poo, not with- Wef was engraved on his tomb out reason, thought to be the more Here lies the invincible Fan, exacting test of intelligence in ae- whose glory nobody could tarnish. tion. The Chinese experta make. Only the great Su could fight with the self-aamo comparison in favour Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. Chim. But the sun would set over of. Wei-Chi, the tactics and prac and the people have died by mil-waite, C.M.G., Inspector-General of his moves of defence, while Fan, tical values of which could only be lions through want."

Folice, atatemen

smiling and light-hearted, could ex-explained by diagrams and Illustra change jokes with his opponent tive games There are many millions in

Training Course Part 2-The class Oh! great generous soul, so good players. China too inarticulate to under- for instruction in police duties and re- stand the varied causes of the gulations will be held as usual at the to the needful, so indifferent to the century onwards the games of the innumerable civil wars. All that Police Training School, Kowloon, topwerful, your fame will never great masters, such as Fan and Su,

morrow at 6:30p.m.

cense, and you will sleep in your have been recorded; and these concerns them is the monotonous Squad Drill All recruits of the glory under these pine trees sooth master-pieces show the clash of

have not yeted by the brecze.

personalities to the expert critic as daily routine necessary to earn Chinese Company who

The antiquity of such games "is

clearly as the famous games of their bowl of rice Rapacious Passed part 1 of Training Course will

attend at Central Police Station on alway's exaggerated. It is tradi

cheas between, Bay, Zukertort; and, Generala, looting soldiers, desper-Thursday, at 5.30 pm sharp for squad tionally supposed that Wei-Chi was Steinitz or Lasker and Capablanca. ate bandits, fleecing tax collec-drill under. P/Sergeant. R. J. Hunt. invented by the Emperor Yao, who Huang, who became the champion

Dress Mufti

lived some 2,350 years before of the Eastern world before his tors-all are so many plagues that

Christ, to provide a mental training eighteenth birthday, towards the Hong Kong, Monday, Mar. 10, 1930. they would, if they could, consign Parade. All ranks of the Indian for his stupid son, Tan-Chu. The end of the Kang-Tal period (1655- to the limbo of the evils of the Company are reminded of the Parade first definite mention of Wel-Chi is 1723), might perhaps be called the

to be held at Police Headquarters under past. But, what hope is there F/Sergeant R. J. Hunt to-morrow, at made by Confucius, who says: Morphy of Wei-Chi, not only be "UNIFYING CHINA ?”

"There are many who think only of for them and their country if 5.80 p.m. sharp.

Flying Squad:

eating without applying their mind cause of his brilliant victories, but ale because he improved the year after year is to witness out-

The weakly instructional patrol of for the entire day to any occupa theory of the openings and acted Before the quarrel between breaks of civil war with its dire-the Kowloon Section will take place to tion. What a life! Is there not in the middle game on the adage

Fall in at the Taim-tea-tsul. Wel-Chi? To play at Wei-Chi is ful and devastating effects morrow. General Yen Hsi-shan and Nan

fence. The Japanese players, who Dress-Winter uniforin, and The tradition of the game's origin, are now the strongest, take Huang king-which is Marshal Chiang on the whole country? China is Fire Brigade Station at 5.80 p.m. much better than doing nothing that attack is the best form of de

a land of great potentialities. cap with white cover.

which recalls, the fabulous story of Kai-shek-was patched up in the

Likewise is it a country of great The weekly Instructional patrol of the invention of playing cards, is as their master-in-árt, and they the Hong Kong Bection will take place also comparable with the long-Chinese rivals in applying the prin seem more successful than their usual way passing of money-disappointments. Unification of on Fridays Fall in at the Central the whole situation could have) the country, seems as yet but an Police Stations at 6:15 pm sharp rejected legends which made chess ciples of "position play" and "com been summed up as follows:-

bination" (to use chess terms) idle dream. Before that can be Dress-Winter uniform and cap with at least. 4,000 years ald

modern research shows that only singly or simultaneously as oc- General Yen was against Nan achieved China's leaders shall Sharpshooters Company-

the little games known as "merels" casion offers. The last President king's doctrine of unification by to turn their attention: to Rife Instruction Clans This will be (including noughts-and-crosses, (1927) of the Chinese Republic, nine mea'a morris etc.), were known Tian-Chi-jul, was a clever player, force. He did not mince his words

provincial autonomy unembar-

and his games at odds of one or two as to what he thought about the rassed by the feuds and strifes of

men with the famous Japanese. whole scheme. Nanking called

neighbouring provinces. But, sad

The division of the Wei-Chi mastera, Takahe and Hirose, have

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Chess Stories

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But

him a "feudalistic." Lu Chung to say, all suggestions can only Rang on Wednesday from 9 pm to board into four parta (known as been printed with annotations. lin and Pel Chung-hai--two essen remain so until China discovers a 10,89 pm

tial Generals of the Wu-han faction were on the side of General Yen. There are others who do not like Chiang Kai-shek and these may yet make an effort to gather their scattered forces with the determined intention of ridding China of him.

really strong man able to sup- press the war lords and able to inculcate a universal'spirit of real

alty

News in Brief

One case of smallpox was notifed on the week-end."

(BEd D.E KING;

D.S.P. () Hong Kong, March 10, 1930.

MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG

east, south, west, and north) Bug Years of practice and a close study gests that, like chess, according to of the abundant, literature of the a theory accepted by several game are required for the masters modern authorities, the game may of Wei-Chi, and it is improbable: have started as a four-handed that the present craze for playing pastime in which the moves were it will last long enough to evolve decided by throwing dice. And it an English master.

is a significant fact, surely, that

Maria Dashwood,

This day I do spend at the Office, literary references to Wei-Chi sud Mr. Stanley Baldwin unveiled. But Lord for all the Business I do, denly became frequent at the be the mural paintings presented by I might be at the Club. So I fall to ginning of the Tang Dynasty (1000 Sir Joseph Duveen, at the Morley- going through the news sheets, A.D.), when the knowledge of chess College for Working Men and Wo China's weal or Woe concernik

looking over the account of the in ita mediauval form began to men, Westminster Bridge Road, all, and one may well hope that Mr. and Mrs. T. Ey Jackson and numbers which did win at the Lot spread both westward and east S.E. If General Yen does leave the their Infant son were among the tries held over the last Horse ward. It was then that the Em country there will be afforded a passenger on the as Kashmir, Races at Wong-Nel-Chong. But perora began to grant honorific Mrs.

which left for Home on Saturday.however I peruse them, I cannot titles and even paid posts to famous Crescent Road, Beckenham, Kent, breathing spell for quiet and con-

find my through ticket to have won practitioners, perhaps because the and Mrs. Ann Fuller, of Carding.. cillatory thinking. Must China be The return of notishble diseases a prize. Whereat I make a vow factor of chance had been finally ton, Bedford, celebrated their 100th for ever in a turmoil; her internal for the 24 hours ended at midnight nevermore to buy through tickets, oliminated. In India, which last birthday and received congratula

on Friday shows four cases of walch the Lord help me to keep year provided us with an excellent tions from the King. trife bringing devastation to her amalpox and one of diphtheria, all batter than some of my vows. Later British champion in Mir Sulaan 400 millions of population?. As | Chinese. events in China occur in rapid suc

to my house, where, to my great Khan, Hess as always flourfahed: Mr. Aubrey, aged 21, a scout-- Cvention I find upon computation put in the Far East, where it as master, of Ramaden Bellhouse, Silk forwarded from here by of my books that my boy and pumed a distorted form 1866 Mur near Billericay, Essex, was killed. Cession one day war, the nex Empress of Russia" on February 12 cook, are: Luli;of knavery and dis-ray'a blatory of the game in while motor-cycling... so-called Peace-even the most arrived in New York (St. John's simulation. They do write down mediaeval times), Wei-Chi was Al

ardent friend of this gre try dare not give an answer

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Tarch 5, haying doen. 21 therein much that God wat wo ways regarded as its superiors In never had, yet how I may prove this the Webt à mowledge of these was I know not. Which puts me in taken as a sufficient proof of heale great grief, for all sorvants are birth, sa a "mistery" beyond the cold the the same, yet I dan ill afford my phurka Gotmyrebambou brin are present charges. My wite stil stube Chine, the digenous bactive Spok which born not to go to the play, says In Precedence, its votaries being dele the bow owner On which I being brated for their philosophie be that vexed over my account, we do have hevur ad perfect Reportment. tive words and I do swear I go by This distinction é Eur oldhaugyself. But Lord what a pother forced in an anecdote of gasesteri Two chess and among the Jif I di But At a Chinese

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Boor or wretch,

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Ten Years Ago

From

Match

1920.1

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