The Oxford history of board games
The Oxford history of board games
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牛津棋盘游戏的历史
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1999
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David Parlett
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几千年来，人们一直在计划攻击、捕获、追逐和征服--在各种不同的棋盘上为令人惊叹的多样性游戏而设计。策略、技能和机会的令人信服的组合一如既往地强大；几乎每天都有新的棋盘游戏问世，而常年最受欢迎的棋类游戏继续吸引新的爱好者，并揭示新的可能性。这本书调查了古往今来和世界各地的棋类游戏的原理，探索了使每个棋盘游戏具有独特吸引力的迷人的相似和不同之处，并引出了游戏作为人类体验的核心部分的意义--与其音乐、舞蹈和故事一样对一种文化至关重要。David Parlett以他的商标易懂、有趣的风格，研究了不同的游戏系列：基于配置或连接的游戏、种族或追逐、战争或狩猎、捕获或封锁。他主要关注传统游戏，这是几个世纪以来有机发展起来的民间娱乐活动，呈现出无穷无尽的地方差异，尽管他也讨论了试图与其惊人的受欢迎程度相匹配的商业产品，取得了不同程度的成功。这本书主要不是一本如何操作的书，尽管对某些游戏的规则和策略进行了详细的讨论，但它也没有提供成功的必备技巧，尽管对游戏有了更全面的理解，读者无疑会成为一名消息灵通、甚至更好的玩家。相反，它是对我们文化史上最熟悉的部分之一的深情和权威的调查，到目前为止，它一直莫名其妙地被忽视。
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. 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. This book 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 - as vital to a culture as its music, dance, and tales. 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 organically through 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, 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.