Watching others playing chess indeed is quite interesting, just like watching bullfighting, cockfighting or cricket-fighting, yet an onlooker also has his own suffering, say, to keep silence while watching.

• 所以瓜棚豆架之下，与世无争的村夫野老不免一枰相对，消此永昼；闹市茶寮之中，常有有闲阶级的人士下棋消遣，“不为无益之事，何以遣此有涯之生?”