History Of Board Games Other Than Chess

Author : Harold James Ruthven Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Board-games Other Than Chess written by Harold James Ruthven Murray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1952 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the board games of different peoples and traces their origin and diffusion.

Author : David Parlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Board Games written by David Parlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing diversity of games. Today the compelling mix of strategy, skill, and chance is as strong as ever; new board games are invented almost daily,while the perennial favourites continue to attract new devotees and reveal new possibilities. The Oxford History of Board Games investigates the principles of board games throughout the ages and across the world, exploring the fascinating similarities and differences that give each its unique appeal, and drawing out the significance of game-playing as a central part of human experience - asvital to a culture as its music, dance, and tales. Beautifully illustrated and with diagrams to show the finer points of the games, this is a fascinating and accessible guide to a richly rewarding subject. In his trade-mark accessible, entertaining style, David Parlett looks at the different families of games: games based on configuration or connection, races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or blockade. He focuses mainly on traditional games, the folk entertainments that have grown up organicallythrough the centuries, and which exhibit endless local variations, although he discusses also the commercial products that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to match their astonishing popularity. This is not primarily a how-to book, although the rules and strategies of certain games are discussed in detail, neither does it offer sure-fire tips for success, although with a fuller understanding of a game the reader will undoubtedly become a better-informed, if not better, player. Rather, itis an affectionate and authoritative survey of one of the most familiar parts of our cultural history, which has until now been inexplicably neglected.

Author : Harold J. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Board-games Other Than Chess written by Harold J. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. C. Bell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145573
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations written by R. C. Bell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.

Author : H J R (Harold James Ruthve Murray
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014212405
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Board-games Other Than Chess written by H J R (Harold James Ruthve Murray and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Kyppo Jorma
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813233540
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Board Games: Throughout The History And Multidimensional Spaces written by Kyppo Jorma and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppö explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. He provides a description of the evolution and various interpretations of chess. Furthermore, the book offers the study of the old Celtic and Viking board games and the old Hawaiian board game Konane, as well as a new hypothesis about the interpretation of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disk. Descriptions of several chess variations, including some highlights of the game theory and tiling in different dimensions, are followed by a multidimensional symmetrical n-person strategy game model, based on chess. Final chapter (Concluding remarks) offers the new generalizations of the Euler-Poincare's Characteristic, Pi and Fibonacci sequence.

Author : H. J. R. MURRAY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book History of Board-games Other Than Chess written by H. J. R. MURRAY and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irving Finkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566490726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Board Games written by Irving Finkel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are four board games -- the Royal Game of Ur; Mehen, the Game of the Snake; Hounds and Jackals; and the Egyptian Game of Senet -- which were popular in the days of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and in nearby countries from about 5,000 years ago, chosen and recreated by Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum. Everything you need to play them is here: the playing boards recreated in sumptuous colors, playing pieces, and full instructions including variations and other possibilities you may like to try.

Author : Harold James Ruthven Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Chess written by Harold James Ruthven Murray and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: