Description

Wang you qing le ji (Collected writings on forgetting all cares and worries and enjoying life), a Song dynasty print edition, was arranged and compiled by Li Yimin, a chess technical official at the Imperial Academy. Li collected works written by earlier authors on the Chinese weiqi (Chinese chess) game, as well as famous weiqi game positions and chessboards. Presented here is the earliest extant print edition of the systematic study of Chinese chess. The title was taken from a line of one of the poems written by Zhao Ji ...