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Zend Chess Playing


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Bulag, Uradyn E. 
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Abstract

Zend chess is a wooden card game amongst the Ejine Torghuts. It has 60 pieces of plank cards which can be played by 3 to 10 people at the same time. Each card has its name, and they represent different stratified levels: Norov is the throne, Korol the general followed by lions and 12 Chinese zodiacs. The rule of the game is that players are distributed cards equally, they then collect additional cards from others to make yurts. It has the following results from the worst to the best: hödöö honoh (homeless), shovoodai (shed), shungurtsag ger (cuff), övdön ger (knee-level yurt), ger (yurt) and the best is asar (building).Lin Suiyin says that Zend was very popular when she was a child, but it has been revived in recent years after having disappeared for a few decades. Lin Suiyin is 85 years old now.

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Ejine Torghuts, Zend chess, wooden card game

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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