Chess
Features a history of chess, chess pieces, and chess game variants.
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This exhibition explores Asia’s fundamental role in the development and refinement of games. It brings together some of Asia's most significant examples of boards, pieces, and other game playing paraphernalia from museums and private collections worldwide.
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This is the year 1008, maybe 1010. A group of people is clearing the way towards what is today known as Isère. Women are accompanied by children; men at arms are riding their horses, while others are leading their pigs, goats and cows in a great fuss. They have put what they need to live in carts. This adventure will lead them to the wooded shores of Paladru Lake. Who are these farmer-knights?
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Includes instructions for shatranj and other medieval chess variants.
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Games of the Middle Ages, specifical ly focusing on board games popular in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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An online class from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, describing the history of chess, its role in art and literature, with many illustrations of the game from medieval manuscripts.
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Links to extant pieces of pre-17th century gaming equipment, as well as depictions of people playing games.
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Dice and dice games, gaming pieces and board games (including hnefatafl, duodecim scripta, merels, halatafl, chess, and draughts), knucklebones, and riddles.
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Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.
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Today, chess is a popular game of strategy and wits. Its birth reaches back to the Middle Ages, but not as a game pursued for recreation .
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Listings: 11
Regular: 11
Last listing added: 01/18/38
Regular: 11
Last listing added: 01/18/38