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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... Jump 73.Stone Ludus Latrunculorum board 74.Tablan 75.Puluc Tailpiece: English dicing cup Chapter Three: GAMES OF POSITION 76. Noughts and Crosses 77.Three Men's Morris 78.Three Men's Morris (another form) 79.Six Men's Morris 80.Nine ...
... Jump 73.Stone Ludus Latrunculorum board 74.Tablan 75.Puluc Tailpiece: English dicing cup Chapter Three: GAMES OF POSITION 76. Noughts and Crosses 77.Three Men's Morris 78.Three Men's Morris (another form) 79.Six Men's Morris 80.Nine ...
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... jump by a piece over another piece to land beyond, but vacant squares may intervene on either side of the captured ... jumping over an enemy piece on an adjacent space to land on the space immediately beyond. COLUM N or F_1,LE % o * * - -
... jump by a piece over another piece to land beyond, but vacant squares may intervene on either side of the captured ... jumping over an enemy piece on an adjacent space to land on the space immediately beyond. COLUM N or F_1,LE % o * * - -
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... Jump up—push off You can—not win Get out—Baboon. The players used three dice marked from 1 to 6,. FIG. 27. Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum boards found at Timgad (A) and Rome (B) (redrawn FIG. 28. Tavern wall-painting in Pompeii, c. A.D. 70 ...
... Jump up—push off You can—not win Get out—Baboon. The players used three dice marked from 1 to 6,. FIG. 27. Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum boards found at Timgad (A) and Rome (B) (redrawn FIG. 28. Tavern wall-painting in Pompeii, c. A.D. 70 ...
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... jump over the hostile piece and remove it from the board. If another piece is then EN PRISE it is taken in the same move by a second short leap, a change of direction being allowed. Two or more pieces may be captured in one move. If a ...
... jump over the hostile piece and remove it from the board. If another piece is then EN PRISE it is taken in the same move by a second short leap, a change of direction being allowed. Two or more pieces may be captured in one move. If a ...
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... jumping over an enemy piece on to a vacant point beyond and any number of pieces may be captured in one move by a series of jumps similar to the move of a king in English draughts. The player capturing all the opposing soldiers wins. As ...
... jumping over an enemy piece on to a vacant point beyond and any number of pieces may be captured in one move by a series of jumps similar to the move of a king in English draughts. The player capturing all the opposing soldiers wins. As ...
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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