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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... BACKGAMMON GROUP GAMING BOARDS FROM THE ROYAL TOMBS AT UR FIG. 17. Gaming board from the Royal Tombs of Ur, c. 3000 B.C. (drawn from photographic plate in Sir L. Woolley's The Royal Cemetery) Sir Leonard Woolley found five gaming boards ...
... BACKGAMMON GROUP GAMING BOARDS FROM THE ROYAL TOMBS AT UR FIG. 17. Gaming board from the Royal Tombs of Ur, c. 3000 B.C. (drawn from photographic plate in Sir L. Woolley's The Royal Cemetery) Sir Leonard Woolley found five gaming boards ...
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... backgammon type and may have been an early forerunner of Nard, later so popular among the Arab peoples. FIG. 22. Wall drawing from a tomb at Benihassan, c. FIG. 21. Board from Ak-hor now in the Cairo Museum. The four elaborate gaming ...
... backgammon type and may have been an early forerunner of Nard, later so popular among the Arab peoples. FIG. 22. Wall drawing from a tomb at Benihassan, c. FIG. 21. Board from Ak-hor now in the Cairo Museum. The four elaborate gaming ...
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... Backgammon boards were favourite objects for the expression of a craftsman's skill and it is not surprising that this superb board became a treasured piece of church furniture in spite of its secular origin. In isolated parts of Iceland ...
... Backgammon boards were favourite objects for the expression of a craftsman's skill and it is not surprising that this superb board became a treasured piece of church furniture in spite of its secular origin. In isolated parts of Iceland ...
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... Backgammon board and two cubic dice. Rules 1. Each player has three pieces which are entered on the player's side of the board and travel along it to the twelfth or HOME point. 2. A player's pieces remain in their order of entry. No ...
... Backgammon board and two cubic dice. Rules 1. Each player has three pieces which are entered on the player's side of the board and travel along it to the twelfth or HOME point. 2. A player's pieces remain in their order of entry. No ...
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... backgammon set.] On the throw of a 1, a player passes a piece to his neighbour; on the throw of 6, he bears a piece off; and a player throwing a 2, must drink and throw again. The last two players on the board, or sometimes the last one ...
... backgammon set.] On the throw of a 1, a player passes a piece to his neighbour; on the throw of 6, he bears a piece off; and a player throwing a 2, must drink and throw again. The last two players on the board, or sometimes the last one ...
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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