Board and Table Games from Many CivilizationsCourier Corporation, 30.04.2012 - 464 Seiten 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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THE GAME OF THIRTY Ridgeway W Journal of Hellenic | 26 |
WEICHI Volpicelli Z Weichi Journal of 99 | 80 |
Culin S Korean Games Philadelphia | 91 |
MANCALA GAMES | 113 |
THE HYENA GAME Davies R Some Arab Games and 12 | 12 |
THE STONE WARRIORS Culin S Games of the North American 48 | 48 |
Murray H J R History of Chess | 55 |
DRAUGHTS | 57 |
ENGLISH DRAUGHTS Murray H J R History of Board 71 | 71 |
FOURRANK MANCULA | 75 |
REVERSI Hoyles Games Modernised London 74 | 74 |
GOMOKU Volpicelli Z WeiChi Journal of 96 | 80 |
PATOLLI Taylor E B On the Game of Patolli 6 | 116 |
DISPUTING TENS Culin S Korean Games Philadelphia 151 | 117 |
MAJONG Culin S Chinese Games with Dice and | 153 |
MAKING BOARDS AND PIECES | 173 |
Compleat Gamester 1674 | 179 |
EDMOND HOYLE Dictionary of National Biography | 187 |
EUROPEAN DOMINOES Strutt J Sports and Pastimes of the 162 | 201 |
THREEINAROW GAMES | 2 |
1923 P 447 | 84 |
HASAMI SHOGI Harbin E O Games of Many Nations 97 | 97 |
London 1908 Vol X p 133 | 133 |
TWENTYSIX Scarne J Scarne on Dice 1946 p 356 139 | 139 |
LIAR DICE Ogbourn Miss L A personal com 143 | 143 |
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BINGO Dawson L H Hoyles Games Modern 165 | 165 |
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Bände 1-2 Robert Charles Bell Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1979 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alquerque alternately as-Suli author's collection Awari backgammon banker Black Board and pieces century Chess in Iceland Chinese chess Chinese dominoes circle colour count counters cowrie Culin Diagram dice dominoes double draughts enemy piece English draughts Fiske four go ma-jong hand Hasami Shogi Hnefatafl hole horse Hoyle Initial position inner table ivory Japanese Chess jump king lifted Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Ludus Latrunculorum mancala marked marker Men's Morris moved one square Nine Men's Morris occupied opening player Opening position opponent opponent's orthogonally pair pawn pieces move Plate player throws player's pieces players move players place pool position of pieces pung quong RACE GAMES rajah round Rules score seeds Shatranj Shaturanga shown in fig side soldiers square diagonally stake stones tailpiece tallies tangram Tawlbwrdd teetotum three dice Three Men's Morris tiles turn of play vacant point vacant squares Wei-ch'i winner wins the game wood