The next time you complain your car is going nowhere on its daily commute: spare a thought for a fiendishly long traffic jam in China which entered its ninth day. Stoic drivers are being warned the bottleneck could continue for a month. Hundreds of trucks heading for Beijing on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway have been at a standstill because of roadworks in the capital. Small traffic accidents or broken-down cars aggravated the congestion which started on August 14. But those affected have been taking the disruption in their stride by playing chess.