Laurie, I couldn't find anything that told how to pronounce the game, but it is a Chinese "kiddies' Go" that is frequently played in Taiwan, so you might want to find a Taiwanese person and ask them about pronunciation. It apparently means "Four Directions." Here are the links and book references I found. Web Sites: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SzKwa http://www.pbm.com/pipermail/hist-games/2000/000477.html http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=game/wb/ (Note: this site has a downloadable file with a .lha extension--I have no idea what that is and was unable to open it.) http://www.lysator.liu.se/(/jwz/,v5)/amiga/ar/guide/ar112.text?ShakenNotStirred (Note: this web site seems to intimate that there was a computer version of the game at some point in time.) http://www.xtec.es/~rbernau1/tauler/szkwa.htm (Note: includes game rules, but in another language--maybe Italian?) Book References: "The Alien IQ test" by Clifford Pickover, ISBN 0-486-42007-8. R.C. Bell & M. Cornelius, Board Games Round the World, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 14-5. Cliffor A. Pickover, MAZES for the MIND, computers and the unexpected Hope this helps! Laurie --- "Laurie J. Rich" <knitmeapony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! > > My sister is a content editor at a math company, and > she's looking for > details (particularly pronunciation, but rules/play > as well) for a game that > she says is somewhat similar to Go and is called > Sz'kwa. Does anyone know > of this game, or where I could find out more? The > few sites I found when I > googled weren't terribly detailed -- my guess is > that there's more than one > way to spell the anglicisation. > > Laurie > > -- > "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, > every rocket fired, > signifies in the final sense a theft from those who > hunger and are not fed, > those who are cold and are not clothed." > President Dwight D. Eisenhower > April 16, 1953 > > _______________________________________________ > Something mailing list > Something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/something > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com