Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

Julian Bradfield <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Julian Bradfield <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Julian Bradfield <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> I don't remember seeing such a growing dead wall rule elsewhere -
does
> >> it occur in other books?
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> To answer my own question again (sorry!), I have now observed that
> Babcock describes this in his chapter on the Chinese game: for each
> Kong declared, one stack (two tiles) is moved to the dead wall.

I don't know how others play or what the fascination is with this
"dead wall" thing.  When we play (both traditional CC and HKOS), we
just draw tiles from the wall until there are 16 tiles left.  There is
no such thing as "move to the dead wall", there was never any
separation between the "dead wall" and the "live wall".  Kong and
flower replacement tiles are just drawn from the tail of the wall when
necessary.  I am curious how other Chinese and non-Chinese players
actually handle this "dead wall" thing because it is totally foreign
to me.  Thank you.