 In terms of playing interest, weiqi still commands the lead followed by chess and xiangqi but it has been estimated that 10 million people have learnt to play chess by 2000.On a site inspection visit by Tang Kum-Foo and Ignatius Leong from "Intchess Asia" in February 1998, among 5 cities they visited was Wenzhou, a commercial seaport on the eastern coast.There they were invited to 3 kindergartens and witnessed about 2,200 children playing chess in classrooms.