King’s College Annual Open Day 2008

Appendix C2: Content on display board

I. Background Information
Name of club/society: Chess Club

Number of display surfaces provided: 2

Personal particulars of student i/c: Cheung Shui-lun 6D 3

Name Class Class no.

Name of teacher i/c: Liu Tak-chung

Teacher i/c
Please put down your signature to indicate you have checked the content and the language.
Signature of teacher i/c: Date:

II. All words/sentences must be written out/laid out exactly as they will appear on the board(s).
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棋藝學會 Chess Club
CHINESE CHESS

Introduction of Liu Dahua:

He won the championship in the National Individual Chinese Chess Competitions in 1980, breaking Hu
Ronghua’s multi-year monopoly of the title. He was known as the Oriental Computer due to his incredible feat
of playing with 19 players at the same time in 1995.

Introduction of Xiangqi:
The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese
chess in English. The first character 象 Xiàng here has the meaning "image" or "representational", hence
Xiangqi can be literally translated as "representational chess". The game is sometimes called "elephant chess"
after an alternative meaning of 象 as "elephant".

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King’s College Annual Open Day 2008

棋藝學會 Chess Club

GO
Having developed in China between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, Go (called Wei Ch'i in China and
Baduk in Korea) contends with backgammon for the right to be called the oldest game still played in its
original form. Today it is played by millions in Asia and thousands elsewhere.

A game played by two Japanese GO experts

INTERNATIONAL CHESS
Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. Sometimes called Western Chess or
International Chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of
the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from a
similar, much older games of Indian origin.

Remarks:
1. Chairpersons of all clubs and societies, except for those in charge of the Chinese Debating Society, Chinese Society and
Putonghua Club, are required to write their content in ENGLISH.
2. They could estimate the font and size of their displays by referring to the sample board (1.83 m  0.9 m) near the main
entrance so as to avoid redesigning of the displays due to inappropriate size of words and/or diagrams.
3. The softcopy of this document can be downloaded at http://www.esnips.com/web/kcopenday0809. The softcopy and
hardcopy of this document should be submitted to your teacher-in-charge on or before Oct. 28, 2008 (Tue, Day 7). You
may get back your final accepted version on or before Nov. 11, 2008 (Tue, Day 1).

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