A Chinese game' which is 4280 years old is' described in a net book, the "Game of Wei-Chi (Longmans, Green & Ca.) Wel-Chi was invented by the Emperor Yao in the year 2350 ne. Professor H. A. Giles, who occupies the Chair of says forword:—"To learn to Chinese at Cambridge University,
Flay Wei-Chi as an amusement is fan easy task: I taught my young children, To become a master is an affair of years, The board is a criss-cross of 19 vertical and 19 horizontal lines. Tt a rough map of an unpopulated world. The game is to populate as many as possible of the 361 intersections of these lines with your own pieces in such a way that they cannot be surrounded by hostile pieces,.or cut off from the edges of the board, whic represent the sea. You may achieve this by mass formations, equivalent to the Great Powers, or by? smaller scattered ones, but once either of these is completely encircled by the enemy the pieces (representing territory) are taken. The players, therefore, occupy the margins, or costal territory, first and then progress into the interior.
Opening, battle, and consolidation are the three stages of this war game, ana its basic principle.is the surrounding and encirclement of the enemy.
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