After all, if so many people who can't read any Chinese can play mahjong, the seven Chinese ideographs used in chess shouldn't be such an insurmountable barrier. Concludes a player from Malaysia who has been to Taiwan to compete, "people prefer the flat pieces."
正如許多不懂漢文的人都能打麻將，象棋七個漢字不算什麼隔閡，「人們寧可下平棋」，來過台灣比賽的馬來西亞棋手張漢忠說。