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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... Plates IX-XXIV between pp. 178-9 Tailpiece: 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 ...
... Plates IX-XXIV between pp. 178-9 Tailpiece: 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 ...
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... are dry streams (figs. 5 and 148 on Plate XIV). Runners. Each team has one runner and the moves of. FIG. 4. Mayan game found at Chichen Itza, Yucatan (after Ruppert) FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl track (after Culin, Chess and Playing.
... are dry streams (figs. 5 and 148 on Plate XIV). Runners. Each team has one runner and the moves of. FIG. 4. Mayan game found at Chichen Itza, Yucatan (after Ruppert) FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl track (after Culin, Chess and Playing.
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... Plate XXI). Scoring One flat side up . . 1 and if this is the blue, another turn Two flat sides up . . 2 Three flat sides up . . 3 and if the blue is included, another [turn Four flat sides up . . 6 and another turn. FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl ...
... Plate XXI). Scoring One flat side up . . 1 and if this is the blue, another turn Two flat sides up . . 2 Three flat sides up . . 3 and if the blue is included, another [turn Four flat sides up . . 6 and another turn. FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl ...
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... Plate XII). Suggested Additional Rules (for two players) 1. The players put an agreed sum into a pool and decide on the size of the forfeits. 2. One player takes six red pieces, the other six blue. 3. Each player casts the patolli in ...
... Plate XII). Suggested Additional Rules (for two players) 1. The players put an agreed sum into a pool and decide on the size of the forfeits. 2. One player takes six red pieces, the other six blue. 3. Each player casts the patolli in ...
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... Plate XV). The marked squares represent castles in which the 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 ...
... Plate XV). The marked squares represent castles in which the 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 ...
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
Términos y frases comunes
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