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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... coloured rosette in the middle row of the larger section next to the 'bridge'. The boards were hollow and inside ... colour, side of the board, and the opening move. FIG. 18. Diagram to show the direction of movement of the pieces on ...
... coloured rosette in the middle row of the larger section next to the 'bridge'. The boards were hollow and inside ... colour, side of the board, and the opening move. FIG. 18. Diagram to show the direction of movement of the pieces on ...
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... coloured wood, nine of a dark coloured wood, and one of ivory which may have been a replacement for a lost piece of the set. In addition to pieces there were four staves. A board from Tutankhamen's tomb contained two knuckle bones, and ...
... coloured wood, nine of a dark coloured wood, and one of ivory which may have been a replacement for a lost piece of the set. In addition to pieces there were four staves. A board from Tutankhamen's tomb contained two knuckle bones, and ...
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... colour. 2. The moves of the pieces were controlled by the alternate throws of three six-sided dice. If, for example, the numbers 1, 3, 5, were thrown: (a) Three pieces could be moved, one 1 point, one 3 points, and one 5 points, as long ...
... colour. 2. The moves of the pieces were controlled by the alternate throws of three six-sided dice. If, for example, the numbers 1, 3, 5, were thrown: (a) Three pieces could be moved, one 1 point, one 3 points, and one 5 points, as long ...
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... colours travelled in the same direction, and it improves the game if no piece is allowed to enter the second half of the board until all the player's pieces are entered into the first half. 4. If a player had two or more men on a point ...
... colours travelled in the same direction, and it improves the game if no piece is allowed to enter the second half of the board until all the player's pieces are entered into the first half. 4. If a player had two or more men on a point ...
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... coloured drawings, ten being full plates. The book is divided into four sections. Part one deals only with chess; part two with games played with three dice; part three with some fifteen varieties of Tables; and part four contains a ...
... coloured drawings, ten being full plates. The book is divided into four sections. Part one deals only with chess; part two with games played with three dice; part three with some fifteen varieties of Tables; and part four contains a ...
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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