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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... piece between two of one's own. The piece moves diagonally across the board. The singular of dice. A piece is en prise when it is liable to capture at the opponent's next move. See diagram below. Confiscation of a piece which has ...
... piece between two of one's own. The piece moves diagonally across the board. The singular of dice. A piece is en prise when it is liable to capture at the opponent's next move. See diagram below. Confiscation of a piece which has ...
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... board, but whichever way his first piece moves the others must do likewise. His opponent at his opening throw also has a free choice of direction but having once chosen, the remaining pieces must travel the same way. The opposing forces ...
... board, but whichever way his first piece moves the others must do likewise. His opponent at his opening throw also has a free choice of direction but having once chosen, the remaining pieces must travel the same way. The opposing forces ...
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... piece, are excluded in the bearing off. 12. As each of the player's pieces leaves the cross his opponent pays him one forfeit. 13. The player removing all his pieces from the cross first wins the stake in the pool. 14. For three players ...
... piece, are excluded in the bearing off. 12. As each of the player's pieces leaves the cross his opponent pays him one forfeit. 13. The player removing all his pieces from the cross first wins the stake in the pool. 14. For three players ...
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... pieces are free from capture. A castle occupied by a player's piece is open to his partner's pieces, but closed to the enemy. Each player has four bee-hive shaped wooden pieces marked with his own colours (fig. 9). Six cowrie shells are ...
... pieces are free from capture. A castle occupied by a player's piece is open to his partner's pieces, but closed to the enemy. Each player has four bee-hive shaped wooden pieces marked with his own colours (fig. 9). Six cowrie shells are ...
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... piece moves four squares, the player is not allowed to move two pieces two squares each. 2. A capture is made by a player moving a piece on to a square other than a castle square, occupied by an enemy piece. The latter is removed from the ...
... piece moves four squares, the player is not allowed to move two pieces two squares each. 2. A capture is made by a player moving a piece on to a square other than a castle square, occupied by an enemy piece. The latter is removed from the ...
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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