The Chinese, the games and the bets
The Chinese adore the games, it is one of the pastimes favorite of all a people. Dye some one plays all: mah-jong, Chinese failures, since, cards, billiards...
All is opportunity to have fun Where that one is, to the country or to the city, at someone or to the restaurant, one sees the Chinese playing.
To the daily, the games of the Chinese make themselves in a cordial and passionate ambiance that reinforces the domestic and social tie. Here is a fast presentation of the most popular and the oldest among them:
The mah-jong: this game looks a little like the rummy and be played with 144 tiles (of the big dominoes). The winner is the one that succeeds the first in achieving some combinations with his18 tiles.
The Game of Go (weiqi): one of the play oldest of dyes it. He depends on a tray squared of 361 intersections and or the black and white pawns stand by turns. The principle is to surround the adversary and to constitute the vast territory thus. Some parts of game of Go last several days.
The Chinese failures: are similar enough to the international failures. However they are played on the intersections and the king cannot move that in hispalace (9 slots). The Queen doesn't exist but there are two cannons that move like a tower and that eats the adverse pieces like a Lady to the game of checkers.
The Chinese are also mad about the games of silvers and bets (although the bets are normally forbidden by the Chinese authorities).
The place, the most famous dyes some for the games of money is Macao. The city is famous all over the world to be a sort of Asian Las Vegas. The casinos are open days and nights non stop but the score of millions of renmimbi that there spends every days attract the gangs, the racket and prostitution.
To the daily, all is object to bet: shopping, bingo, sporty match. In the countries of some provinces one organizes fights of crickets for example. The games of silvers and the bets caused however and caused again the ruins numerous families dyes some. Besides the Chinese mafia exercises there to the national level a more and more important control. These last years have perceived also that hisactivity went until in the world of the bettors many European countries.


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