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‘Strange that I, who rule the world from
the Indus in the east to Andalusia in the west,
cannot manage 32 chessmen.’
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Informative, entertaining, and utterly absorbing,
this unique book demonstrates that playing games
can be a very serious business indeed. Formal
game-playing is historically an occupation for
adults, regarded with almost sacred reverence in
many societies, and reflecting the codes—moral,
social, even military—by which cultures operate.
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In his trade-mark accessible, entertaining
style, David Parlett looks at the different families
of games: games based on configuration or connec¬
tion, races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or
blockade. He focuses mainly on traditional games,
the folk entertainments that have grown up or¬
ganically through the centuries, and which exhibit
endless local variations, although he discusses also
the commercial products that have tried, with vary¬
ing degrees of success, to match their astonishing
popularity.
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This is not primarily a how-to book, although
the rules and strategies of certain games are dis¬
cussed 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 a better, player. Rather, it
is an affectionate and authoritative survey of one
of the most familiar parts of our cultural history,
which has until now been inexplicably neglected.
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This book is a 50th reunion gift
from the class of 1926
ABBOT ACADEMY
In memory of
MISS BERTHA BAILEY
principal of Abbot Academy
THE OXFORD

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