Once they had begun this Chinese chess relay, says Lin Yi-shih, one of the combatants and now secretary-general of the ROC Chinese Chess Association, "the days just seemed to fly by, and after only a few games we were discharged."
象棋接龍賽一開，「當兵的日子感覺上快多了，沒下幾盤棋就退伍了」，當年高手之一、今天身為中華民國象棋協會秘書長的林益世說。