hist-games: hist-games Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3

[Burke, Robin]

The Indian game of Chaupad / Pachisi seems to have a long history of
being played on cloth mats, but that specific game does not seem to have
made it to Europe until well after the 1600 date being discussed.

Robin Burke
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and
   Information Systems
DePaul University 

http://josquin.cti.depaul.edu/~rburke/

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms" - Muriel Rukeyser



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   1. Cloth Game Boards (Joe Celko)


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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:40:57 -0500
From: "Joe Celko" <jcelko212 at earthlink.net>
Subject: hist-games: Cloth Game Boards
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The Chinese have been printing Game Boards on paper -- Chess in
particular.
But I do not how long this has been done.

--CELKO--
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