| Titre : | Games ancient and oriental and how to play them : being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the hiera gramme of the greeks, the ludus latrunculorum of the Romans and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Edward Falkener, Auteur | | Mention d'édition : | 1ère édition | | Editeur : | New York [Etats-Unis d'Amérique] : Dover Publications | | Année de publication : | 1961 | | Importance : | 1 vol. (366 p.) | | Présentation : | ill., couv. ill. en coul. | | Format : | 20 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 486207390 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Catégories : | Civilisations:Civilisations égyptiennes
Histoire des jeux et jouets:Antiquité
Types de jeu:Dames
Types de jeu:Echecs
Types de jeu:Echecs:Echecs birmans
Types de jeu:Echecs:Echecs chinois
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Jeu de Go
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Pachisi
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Shogi
| | Index. décimale : | 710 Antiquité | | Résumé : | "Falkener's 'Games Ancient and Oriental' is one of the great classics in books about games, and although it was some 60 odd years ago, it is still considered the definitive source for many of the games it covers. Mr. Falkener, who was a prominent classical scholar, had as his hobby the reconstruction of ancient board games and the recording of living board games not known in the West World. He devoted much of his life to clse study of Egyptian tomb inscriptions, Romans archeology, and to travel in the Orient and Africa, and played many games with native experts.
In this book Mr. Falkener undertook to recreate for the reader those games which he thought were most interesting and most deserving of wider acquaintance. They include the ancient Egyptian game senat and the game of the bowl; latruncles, the famous Roman game, in which his reconstruction is accepted as definitive; chaturanga, the father of chess, a game of great interest; Oriental varieties of chess, with unusual moves and pieced of unusual powers, including Chinese, Siamese, and Burmese chess; shogi, or Japanese chess, perhaps the most intricately dazzling of the chess family; the superchess that Tamerlane played with 56 pieces; Polish and Turkish checkers; assorted games like backgammon, including the true pachisi (not Sam Loyd's American variety), the Japanese game of go, and many other games. The last part of the book is devoted to magic suqres and one of the longest discussions of the Knight's Tour ever printed. (...)"
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Games ancient and oriental and how to play them : being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the hiera gramme of the greeks, the ludus latrunculorum of the Romans and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares [texte imprimé] / Edward Falkener, Auteur . - 1ère édition . - New York (Etats-Unis d'Amérique) : Dover Publications, 1961 . - 1 vol. (366 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. ISSN : 486207390 Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Catégories : | Civilisations:Civilisations égyptiennes
Histoire des jeux et jouets:Antiquité
Types de jeu:Dames
Types de jeu:Echecs
Types de jeu:Echecs:Echecs birmans
Types de jeu:Echecs:Echecs chinois
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Jeu de Go
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Pachisi
Types de jeu:Jeux traditionnels:Shogi
| | Index. décimale : | 710 Antiquité | | Résumé : | "Falkener's 'Games Ancient and Oriental' is one of the great classics in books about games, and although it was some 60 odd years ago, it is still considered the definitive source for many of the games it covers. Mr. Falkener, who was a prominent classical scholar, had as his hobby the reconstruction of ancient board games and the recording of living board games not known in the West World. He devoted much of his life to clse study of Egyptian tomb inscriptions, Romans archeology, and to travel in the Orient and Africa, and played many games with native experts.
In this book Mr. Falkener undertook to recreate for the reader those games which he thought were most interesting and most deserving of wider acquaintance. They include the ancient Egyptian game senat and the game of the bowl; latruncles, the famous Roman game, in which his reconstruction is accepted as definitive; chaturanga, the father of chess, a game of great interest; Oriental varieties of chess, with unusual moves and pieced of unusual powers, including Chinese, Siamese, and Burmese chess; shogi, or Japanese chess, perhaps the most intricately dazzling of the chess family; the superchess that Tamerlane played with 56 pieces; Polish and Turkish checkers; assorted games like backgammon, including the true pachisi (not Sam Loyd's American variety), the Japanese game of go, and many other games. The last part of the book is devoted to magic suqres and one of the longest discussions of the Knight's Tour ever printed. (...)"
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