wei ch'in.

1871 Jrnl. N.-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 6 107 The chessman of the wei ch'i..are generally not made of ivory, but of stone or a glassy substance.

1892 Jrnl. North-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 26 80 Wei-ch'i is considered par excellence the game of the literary class, while Chess is the favourite diversion of military men.

1911 H. F. Cheshire Handbk. Goh or Wei Chi 148 To the cultured classes..‘Wei Chi’,..was, and is an almost essential part of their life.

1917 Encycl. Sinica 594/1 Wei ch‘i, surrounding chess, often called chess by foreigners... The square board on which it is played is divided by eighteen lines each way, making 324 squares. The play..is at the points where the lines cut or meet.

1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. iii. 59 The eighteenth-century Chinese painting on glass reproduced as the frontispiece, shows two ladies playing Wei-ch'i on an antique form of board of 13 × 11 squares.

1976 New Yorker 26 Jan. 23/2 The pattern recalls the Chinese game of wei-ch'i (known here by its Japanese name, go), in which a player captures his opponent's counters by surrounding them with his own.