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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... Nine 125.Put and Take Tailpiece: Antique Chinese dicing cup of ivory Chapter Six: DOMINO GAMES 126. Chinese Dominoes 127. Domino wood-pile 128. Wood-pile for Collecting Tens Ma-jong tiles and counters Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing ...
... Nine 125.Put and Take Tailpiece: Antique Chinese dicing cup of ivory Chapter Six: DOMINO GAMES 126. Chinese Dominoes 127. Domino wood-pile 128. Wood-pile for Collecting Tens Ma-jong tiles and counters Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing ...
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... Nine Men's Morris 148.Beadwork on leather. Zohn-ahl 149.Embroidery. Pachisi 150.Paper. Chinese chess 151.Paper on linen. Game of Goose 152.Metalwork. Pallanguli 153. Perspex inlay. Tau 154.Ivory: Shatranj pieces 155.Bone. Hnefatafl ...
... Nine Men's Morris 148.Beadwork on leather. Zohn-ahl 149.Embroidery. Pachisi 150.Paper. Chinese chess 151.Paper on linen. Game of Goose 152.Metalwork. Pallanguli 153. Perspex inlay. Tau 154.Ivory: Shatranj pieces 155.Bone. Hnefatafl ...
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... , is an example of a Cross and Circle game that has survived unchanged down countless centuries. FIG: 1. Nyout board (after Culin, Korean Games) NYOUT The Nyout board consists of twenty-nine marks which are. CHAPTER ONE - Race Games.
... , is an example of a Cross and Circle game that has survived unchanged down countless centuries. FIG: 1. Nyout board (after Culin, Korean Games) NYOUT The Nyout board consists of twenty-nine marks which are. CHAPTER ONE - Race Games.
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... 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 in the board ...
... 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 in the board ...
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... nine points is known as the FORTRESS. The pieces are placed on the intersections of the lines instead of on the spaces, and the board becomes one of 9 × 10 points (figs. 54 and 150 on Plate XV, also Plate VIII). The chessmen are ...
... nine points is known as the FORTRESS. The pieces are placed on the intersections of the lines instead of on the spaces, and the board becomes one of 9 × 10 points (figs. 54 and 150 on Plate XV, also Plate VIII). The chessmen are ...
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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