Respectively: Confucian and historian, 1780–1832; statesman, 1836–
1888; and critic, essayist, and student of Chinese, 1823–1909.
There are special celebrations upon entering the eighty-eighth year
by the Oriental count, or on the eighty-eighth birthday by the Western.
A variety of Renju in which, after a limited number of stones have
been used on one part of the board, play must jump to another part.
The puzzle requires an intricate rearrangement of rectangles in a very
limited space.
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The gold general and the silver general (kinsho and ginsho) are the
king’s bodyguards in Shogi. Normally silver may, upon penetrating deep
into enemy territory, be promoted to gold; but under certain circumstances
the advantages are in having it remain silver.
“Korean Shogi” is played with pawns alone. Pieces are lost when
caught between enemy pieces.
There is only one rook per side even in a no-handicap game of Shogi.
Upon “promotion” it may move one space diagonally, in addition to
the moves permitted the Western rook.
Kyu, “Grades,” precede Dan, “Ranks,” and, unlike the latter, rise in
descending numerical order. The foreigner thus has thirteen steps to go
before he reaches the First Rank.
Nineteen squared, the number of points on the Go board.
All Chinese. The first is a Confucian classic, the others are neo-
Taoist.
