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Centro di Documentazione e Informazione sul Gioco [CeDIG] — Catalogo bibliografico
role of the dice | 3. Getting home | 4. The tables tur‐
ned | 5. Back to square one | 6. No dice | II. Space
games | 7. All in row | 8. Across the board | 9. Making
arrangements | 10. Restrictive practices | 11. Space
control | III. Chase games | 12. Corner your fauna | IV.
Displace games | 13. Bean and gone | 14. War and the
pieces | 15. Take that! | 16. Conquering kings | 17.
Diversions and deviations | 18. The thought that
counts | V. Today's games | 19. Variations on a theme
| Index
RACCOLTE DI SAGGI E INTERVENTI
De Voogt A.J. (ed.)
NEW APPROACHES TO BOARD GAMES RESEARCH.
ASIAN ORIGINS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden,
1995, 189p.
Introduction | I. Introducing games research | 1. Play
and research: a contradiction? (G.G. Bauer) | 2. A
classification of board games (A.J. de Voogt) | II. Des‐
criptive research and board games | 3. Board games
and real events (Y.I. Averbakh) | 4. Notes on two tibe‐
tan dice games (I.L. Finkel) | 5. On some newly descri‐
bed mancala games from Yunnan province, China, and
the definition of a genus in the family of mancala
games (V. Eagle) | III. Archaeology and board games |
6. Board games and fortunetelling: a case from anti‐
quity (I.L. Finkel) | 7. XII Scripta, Alea, Tabula: new evi‐
dence for the roman history of "Backgammon" (U.
Schädler) | 8. Anglo‐norman Chess (I.D. Riddler) | IV.
Sanskrit studies and board games | 9. The literary
sources of indian Chess and related board games (A.
Bock‐Raming) | 10. Antiquity of indian board games: a
new approach (C. Panduranga Bhatta) | V. Computer
science and board games | 11. Transposition tables in
computer Chess (D.M. Breuker/J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk) |
12. Towards an inventive search strategy in game
playing (H. Iida/H. Matsubara/JW.H.M. Uiterwijk) | 13.
Game programming: tool or target? (A. Treep) | 14.
Beating the world champion: the state of the art in
computer game playing (L.V. Allis) | VI. Philosophy and
board games | 15. On irregular calculi (R. Seidel) | 16.
Towards a philosophical characterization of playing
games (L. Reurich)
Finkel I.L. (ed.)
ANCIENT BOARD GAMES IN PERSPECTIVE
The British Museum Press, London, 2007, VI‐
281p.
Preface (J. Curtis) | Notes on the contributors | Board
games in perspective ‐ An introduction (I.L. Finkel) | 1.
Homo ludens ‐ The earliest board games in the Near
East (S.J. Simpson) | 2. The royal game of Ur (A. Bec‐
ker) | 3. On the rules for the royal game of Ur (I.L.
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Finkel) | 4. Mehen ‐ The ancient egyptian game of the
serpent (T. Kendall) | 5. Where there gamesters in
pharaonic Egypt? (W.J. Tait) | 6. The egyptian game of
Senet and the migration of the soul (P.A. Piccione) | 7.
The game of hounds and jackals (A.J. Hoerth) | 8. The
egyptian "game of twenty squares": is it related to
"marbles" and the game of snake? (E.B. Push) | 9.
Board games and their symbols from roman times to
early christianity (A. Reiche) | 10. Insciber imperial
roman gaming‐boards (N. Purcell) | 11. Notes on pave‐
ment games of Greece and Rome (R.C. Bell) | 12. Late
roman and byzantine game boards at Aphrodisias (C.
Roueché) | 13. Graeco‐roman pavement signs and
game boards: a British Museum working typology (R.C.
Bell/C.M. Roueché) | 14. Game boards at Vijayanaga‐
ra: a preliminary report (J.M. Fritz/D. Gibson) | 15.
Horse coins: pieces for Da Ma, the chinese board‐
game "Driving the horses" (J. Cribb) | 16. An introdu‐
ction to board games in late imperial China (A. Lo) |
17. Go in China (J. Fairbairn) | 18. The beginnings of
Chess (M. Mark) | 19. Grandmasters of Shatranj and
the dating of Chess (R.D. Keene, with an addendum by
R. Eales) | 20. Changing cultures: the reception of
Chess into western Europe in the Middle ages (R.
Eales) | 21. Board games in central Asia and Iran (G.L.
Semenov) | 22. Board games and Backgammon in an‐
cient indian sculpture (M. Soar) | 23. Notes on the
early history of the Backgammon family in China (A.
Lo) | 24. A late eleventh‐century Tabulae set from
Gloucester (I.J. Stewart) | 25. A brief history of Back‐
gammon and the design of the board (M.J. Watkins) |
26. An overview of Mancal rules and variations (L.
Russ) | 27. The typological spread of the game of Man‐
cala (P. Townshend) | 28. Mancala game boards as
african emblems of status (R.A. Walker) | 29. The pur‐
suit of Hnefatafl (I. Riddler) | 30. Rithmomachia, the
philosopher's game: an introduction to its history and
rules (J. Stigter, with a postscript by P. Mebben and J.
Stigter) | 31. Robert Stewart Culin and New world
games (B. Freeman‐Witthoft) | Index
Papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional
contributions.
Neuwahl N. (ed.)
BOARD GAMES IN ACADEMIA III. PROCEEDINGS. AN
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Firenze, Aprile 1999
Introduction | 1000 ways of playing Monopoly (S. Al‐
bertarelli) | Asymmetric blockade games (T. Depaulis)
| Pachisi in arab dress (I. Finkel) | The story line, the
late 18th century race game (C. Goodfellow) | Homo
ordinator (A. Randolph) | Strategies of expert awele
players (J. Retschitzki) | Mancala, Asino's bridge to the
universe (J.G.Ch. van de Riet) | Game hierarchies at
the gaming table in the late Middle Ages (A. Rizzi) |
Reprentations of board‐games and their significations