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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... (fig. 25). The youth has his hand half closed and looks as if he is about to throw a die. There are no pieces shown on the table; possibly the. FIG. 25. Back of a silver mirror, c. 200 B.C. (redrawn from D. Comparetti, Rendiconti della ...
... (fig. 25). The youth has his hand half closed and looks as if he is about to throw a die. There are no pieces shown on the table; possibly the. FIG. 25. Back of a silver mirror, c. 200 B.C. (redrawn from D. Comparetti, Rendiconti della ...
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R. C. Bell. There are no pieces shown on the table; possibly the game has only just begun and the pieces were entered on the board according to the throws of the dice. The word ... (fig. 26). More than a hundred boards for this game were ...
R. C. Bell. There are no pieces shown on the table; possibly the game has only just begun and the pieces were entered on the board according to the throws of the dice. The word ... (fig. 26). More than a hundred boards for this game were ...
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R. C. Bell. FIG. 42. Board for The Sixteen Soldiers (author's collection) THE SIXTEEN SOLDIERS This game is played in Ceylon and parts of India. The initial position is shown in fig. 42. The players move alternately and all pieces can ...
R. C. Bell. FIG. 42. Board for The Sixteen Soldiers (author's collection) THE SIXTEEN SOLDIERS This game is played in Ceylon and parts of India. The initial position is shown in fig. 42. The players move alternately and all pieces can ...
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... shown in fig. 48 and the symbols used for the pieces are taken from the thirteenth-century Alfonso and Cotton manuscripts. There are no chequered squares and the advantage of the first move was decided with a die. See also fig. 154 on ...
... shown in fig. 48 and the symbols used for the pieces are taken from the thirteenth-century Alfonso and Cotton manuscripts. There are no chequered squares and the advantage of the first move was decided with a die. See also fig. 154 on ...
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... shown in fig. 49. The pieces had the same moves and powers as in 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 ...
... shown in fig. 49. The pieces had the same moves and powers as in 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 ...
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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