Board and Table Games from Many CivilizationsCourier Corporation, 2012 M04 30 - 464 páginas There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. This excellent handbook by R. C. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject. Originally published in two volumes in the 1960's, it is now available for the first time in a corrected, one-volume edition. Mr. Bell's encyclopedic work provides the rules and methods of play for 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'I (Go), backgammon, Wari, Continental draughts, Pachisi, Japanese chess, Bidou, Domino Loo, Cribbage, and many others. Volume one is divided into chapters devoted to race games, war games, games of position, Mancala games, dice games, and domino games; volume two follows the same arrangement and then proceeds to games with numbers, card games requiring boards, and games requiring manual dexterity. Additional information is furnished on making boards and pieces, and on gaming-counters. Game players, toymakers, and historians of culture will welcome this guided tour of games from Egypt, Meso-America, the Orient, India, Persia, Rome, Africa, Victorian England, and many other societies. Over 300 illustrations, both photographs and line drawings, add an illuminating counterpoint to the text. |
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... count 97. Wei-ch'i: Building fences 98. Wei-ch'i: Construction of territories 99. Wei-ch'i: Opening plays 100. Wei-ch'i: Cross over or matari 101. Wei-ch'i: Handicap positions 102. Wei-ch'i: 103. Solitaire Tailpiece: Wooden Wei-ch'i ...
... count 97. Wei-ch'i: Building fences 98. Wei-ch'i: Construction of territories 99. Wei-ch'i: Opening plays 100. Wei-ch'i: Cross over or matari 101. Wei-ch'i: Handicap positions 102. Wei-ch'i: 103. Solitaire Tailpiece: Wooden Wei-ch'i ...
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... counts as though it fell with the black side up. Rules of Play 1. All the players throw the blocks in turn, the highest becoming the leader and the others follow in the order of their throws. 2. Throwing a five or a four allows the ...
... counts as though it fell with the black side up. Rules of Play 1. All the players throw the blocks in turn, the highest becoming the leader and the others follow in the order of their throws. 2. Throwing a five or a four allows the ...
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... counts until he throws a 1, but after a 1 is thrown the piece is moved as indicated by the dice, e.g. if a player's four pieces were all off the board and he threw 8, 4, 1, 4, 2, he would introduce a piece into his palace with the throw ...
... counts until he throws a 1, but after a 1 is thrown the piece is moved as indicated by the dice, e.g. if a player's four pieces were all off the board and he threw 8, 4, 1, 4, 2, he would introduce a piece into his palace with the throw ...
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... the corner points of the four quarters of the board, e.g. on a, f, g, l, m, r, s, and x. (b) A throw of 1 moves it on to the next corner point. (c) A throw of 6 moves it on two corner points. (d) Throws of 1, 1, and 6, 6, count double.
... the corner points of the four quarters of the board, e.g. on a, f, g, l, m, r, s, and x. (b) A throw of 1 moves it on to the next corner point. (c) A throw of 6 moves it on two corner points. (d) Throws of 1, 1, and 6, 6, count double.
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... count double a single throw of these numbers, but no other double enables the corner-rattler to move. The player, however, wins another throw: e.g. if a piece became a corner-rattler on p and the player threw 6, 1, then it would move to ...
... count double a single throw of these numbers, but no other double enables the corner-rattler to move. The player, however, wins another throw: e.g. if a piece became a corner-rattler on p and the player threw 6, 1, then it would move to ...
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
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Alquerque alternately as-Suli Author’s collection Awari backgammon banker Black Board and pieces called capture cards centre century Chess in Iceland Chinese dominoes circle colour count counters cowries cribbage Culin diagonally Diagram disc discard Domino Whist double draughts drawing edition eight empty enemy piece English draughts face Fiske gambling hand Hasami Shogi History of Chess Hnefatafl hole Iceland illustrations Initial position ivory jump king lifted London loses Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Ludus Latrunculorum MANCALA marked markers Men’s Morris nine opening player Opening position opponent orthogonally pair passes Patolli pawn pays pieces move pips Plate player throws player’s pieces players place pool position of pieces Queen quong RACE GAMES rajah round Rules Scarne score seeds sequence Shatranj shown in fig side Squails stake sticks stones tailpiece takes tallies tangram teetotum three dice tiles trick turn of play Wei-ch’i winner wins the game