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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... pieces occupy the second positions. 3. The opening player throws the die again and moves a piece the indicated number of squares, landing on an empty square, or one containing an enemy piece which is captured and removed. A piece may ...
... pieces occupy the second positions. 3. The opening player throws the die again and moves a piece the indicated number of squares, landing on an empty square, or one containing an enemy piece which is captured and removed. A piece may ...
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... pieces could be moved, one 1 point, one 3 points, and one 5 points, as long as each resting point was not blocked by enemy pieces; or (b) two pieces could move, e.g. one piece by 1. FIG. 30. Diagram of Zeno's disastrous throw at Tabula ...
... pieces could be moved, one 1 point, one 3 points, and one 5 points, as long as each resting point was not blocked by enemy pieces; or (b) two pieces could move, e.g. one piece by 1. FIG. 30. Diagram of Zeno's disastrous throw at Tabula ...
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... piece became a corner-rattler on p and the player threw 6, 1, then it would move to point r in virtue of the 1, and ... enemy pieces; e.g. if Black has men on q, r, s, and White has a cornerrattler on m, and White throws 3, 1, the corner- ...
... piece became a corner-rattler on p and the player threw 6, 1, then it would move to point r in virtue of the 1, and ... enemy pieces; e.g. if Black has men on q, r, s, and White has a cornerrattler on m, and White throws 3, 1, the corner- ...
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... enemy piece is on the point immediately opposite, the latter is sent off the board and has to re-enter at the next throw. 4. Doublets count only as a single throw: e.g. a throw of 4, 4, allows the player to move only one piece four ...
... enemy piece is on the point immediately opposite, the latter is sent off the board and has to re-enter at the next throw. 4. Doublets count only as a single throw: e.g. a throw of 4, 4, allows the player to move only one piece four ...
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... opponent's place, capturing as many men as possible on the way. The pieces moved diagonally one square at a time. A capture was made by a player blocking an enemy piece diagonally between two of his own, when it was removed from the.
... opponent's place, capturing as many men as possible on the way. The pieces moved diagonally one square at a time. A capture was made by a player blocking an enemy piece diagonally between two of his own, when it was removed from the.
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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