LekhoriLekhoriAn ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.
Mao was determined to prevent encirclement by any power or combination of powers, regardless of ideology, that he perceived as securing too many wei qi “stones’’ surrounding China, by disrupting their calculations.
Alternative letter-case form of weiqi.
Figure 3.1 Shi (Black) versus Li (White) on the Weiqi Board black will appear to have captured no territory at all and, indeed, at the end of this sequence has scored no sure points; white, though, has 30 unassailable points, which seems to ...
Chinese given name.
Transliteration from Mandarin 圍棋／围棋 (wéiqí, literally “encirclement board game”) via Hanyu Pinyin.
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