Burma . of Burma is the chinlon game. A lightspringy ball is made of five interlacing circles of split rattan, four or fivein a tier, with large open interspaces. The object is to keep the ball up, andthe only rule is that the ball may not be touched with the hand. The nearestplayer advances to meet it, and if he be a tyro, he is content to kick the ball up ;there are no turns. A good player will send the ball into the air again andagain with decreasing force till he allows it to alight in the hollow of hisshoulder. Thence he lets it rolldown the back of the arm andjerks it off at the elbow to
Burma . of Burma is the chinlon game. A lightspringy ball is made of five interlacing circles of split rattan, four or fivein a tier, with large open interspaces. The object is to keep the ball up, andthe only rule is that the ball may not be touched with the hand. The nearestplayer advances to meet it, and if he be a tyro, he is content to kick the ball up ;there are no turns. A good player will send the ball into the air again andagain with decreasing force till he allows it to alight in the hollow of hisshoulder. Thence he lets it rolldown the back of the arm andjerks it off at the elbow to catchit on the knee, and, changing hisfoot like a flash, strikes the ballhigh from the back, with theopposite sole, for another playerto vary the performance in asoriginal a way as he can (Nos. 160,162). The game implies a perfectcommand of every muscle. Playersare not at their best till twenty-five or thirty. There can be nowinning in this game, which isplayed for the pure love of skill. 404. i8o BURMA Chess, dominoes,/^i/^, andcards, are the intellectual (sippayln — war-lord )was probably introduced fromChina in ancient times. Itdiffers in some points from thegame played in Europe, butagrees with that played byChinese settlers in Burma. Thepieces are King, General (in lieuof our Queen), two Elephants(in lieu of our Bishops), twoHorsemen, two Chariots (in lieuof our Castles or Rooks), andeight Soldiers. The Kingmoves as in our game. The General moves one square at a time diagonally,the Elephant moves as the General, plus one square forwards, the Horsemanmoves as our Knight, the Chariot moves as our Rook, the Soldiers move as ourPawns. The pieces are set up very differently to ours :—
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