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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... Shatranj was held in considerable respect at his court. We know that the Christians learnt medical secrets from the Arab physicians and Shatranj also may have appealed to the knights of the Cross. On their return home the game would ...
... Shatranj was held in considerable respect at his court. We know that the Christians learnt medical secrets from the Arab physicians and Shatranj also may have appealed to the knights of the Cross. On their return home the game would ...
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R. C. Bell. FIG. 48. Arrangement of pieces in Shatranj (using thirteenth-century symbols from Alfonso X and Cotton manuscripts) A Shatranj board is shown in fig. 48 and the symbols used for the pieces are taken from the thirteenth ...
R. C. Bell. FIG. 48. Arrangement of pieces in Shatranj (using thirteenth-century symbols from Alfonso X and Cotton manuscripts) A Shatranj board is shown in fig. 48 and the symbols used for the pieces are taken from the thirteenth ...
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... Shatranj, he was allowed to exchange his king with any other piece on the board as long as the king was not in check in the new position. This counted as the king's move, and the game then continued. The exchanged piece was known as the ...
... Shatranj, he was allowed to exchange his king with any other piece on the board as long as the king was not in check in the new position. This counted as the king's move, and the game then continued. The exchanged piece was known as the ...
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... Shatranj of the Crusades. Caxton's work was a translation of a translation of the famous chess morality of Jacobus de Cessolis, a native of Lombard who was a friar belonging to the order of the Friars Preachers, now known as Dominicans ...
... Shatranj of the Crusades. Caxton's work was a translation of a translation of the famous chess morality of Jacobus de Cessolis, a native of Lombard who was a friar belonging to the order of the Friars Preachers, now known as Dominicans ...
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... Shatranj with one exception. There was no pawn promotion, and if two of a player's pawns were played around the board and met face to face blocking each other, the opponent removed them both and then made his own move. If a player's ...
... Shatranj with one exception. There was no pawn promotion, and if two of a player's pawns were played around the board and met face to face blocking each other, the opponent removed them both and then made his own move. If a player's ...
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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