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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... Rajah from Indian chess set (From Hyde's De Ludis Orientalibus) GLOSSARY COLUMN See diagram below. CROWNHEAD Spaces on which a piece becomes promoted to a king. CUSTODIAN CAPTURE DIAGONAL MOVE DIE EN PRISE FILE HUFF INTERVENTION.
... Rajah from Indian chess set (From Hyde's De Ludis Orientalibus) GLOSSARY COLUMN See diagram below. CROWNHEAD Spaces on which a piece becomes promoted to a king. CUSTODIAN CAPTURE DIAGONAL MOVE DIE EN PRISE FILE HUFF INTERVENTION.
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... under the control of a Rajah and each containing four corps: Infantry, Cavalry, Elephants, and Boatmen. In this game two players were loosely allied against two opponents. One of the early Sanskrit writings, the Bhavishya Purana, contains.
... under the control of a Rajah and each containing four corps: Infantry, Cavalry, Elephants, and Boatmen. In this game two players were loosely allied against two opponents. One of the early Sanskrit writings, the Bhavishya Purana, contains.
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... rajah. Each piece had a different type of move. FIG. 44. Moves of the pieces in Shaturanga. The pieces. FIG, 43. An Ashtapada board (from Hyde, De Ludis Orientalibus) The RAJAH moved orthogonally or diagonally one square in any.
... rajah. Each piece had a different type of move. FIG. 44. Moves of the pieces in Shaturanga. The pieces. FIG, 43. An Ashtapada board (from Hyde, De Ludis Orientalibus) The RAJAH moved orthogonally or diagonally one square in any.
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... rajah, E=elephant, H=horse, S=ship, P=pawn Power of Movement The ELEPHANT moved orthogonally forwards, sideways, or backwards any number of unoccupied squares. The elephant could not jump over a piece (fig. 44). The HORSE moved one ...
... rajah, E=elephant, H=horse, S=ship, P=pawn Power of Movement The ELEPHANT moved orthogonally forwards, sideways, or backwards any number of unoccupied squares. The elephant could not jump over a piece (fig. 44). The HORSE moved one ...
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... rajah or a pawn moved. If a piece moved onto a square occupied by an enemy piece, the latter was removed from the board. (Minor pieces could not move onto squares occupied by major pieces.) Fig. 45 shows the arrangement of the board ...
... rajah or a pawn moved. If a piece moved onto a square occupied by an enemy piece, the latter was removed from the board. (Minor pieces could not move onto squares occupied by major pieces.) Fig. 45 shows the arrangement of the board ...
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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