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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I agree Rithmomachy / Rithmomachia (someone
who knows please send a message) would only have been played by the educated,
and numerate at that. However for an early medieval game it has survived well so
must have been played by a sufficient number of the educated and numerate
over the past centuries for the rules to have survived. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>( also, I make it and it sells well !)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>jon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=piotr.adamczyk@muzeum.elblag.pl
href="mailto:piotr.adamczyk@muzeum.elblag.pl">'Piotr Adamczyk'</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:26
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: hist-games: XIIIth century
games</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=897371808-24062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yes,
the most important source is Alfonso: Chess, backgammon games (15 variants),
dice games (12 variants): the oldest source we have giving exact rules for
dice games (among them the predecessor of craps), variants of chess, dice and
backgammon, alquerque, 3 men's morris, 9 men's morris.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=897371808-24062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
new commented edition with german translation by myself and the late Ricardo
Calvo is about to appear this year (finally!).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=897371808-24062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>I would also add Bruegel's painting with
children's games in Vienna to the list of important sources. Although it is
later in date, most of these games have been known much earlier (skittles,
knucklebones etc.) and not only in the Netherlands.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=897371808-24062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Rhythmomachiy is something so elitaire that it was surely not played by
"normal" people.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=897371808-24062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ulrich Schädler</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>De :</B> hist-games-bounces@www.pbm.com
[mailto:hist-games-bounces@www.pbm.com] <B>De la part de</B> Piotr
Adamczyk<BR><B>Envoyé :</B> lundi, 23. juin 2008 14:56<BR><B>À :</B>
hist-games@www.pbm.com<BR><B>Objet :</B> hist-games: XIIIth century
games<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any idea what kind of games culd crusaders (or
generally in Europe and Middle East) play in the XIII th century? Bowls,
board games etc. Alquerque could be, some kind of bowling maybe (I've seen a
small icon witha painting where two people are tossing balls on a small wodden
pyramids standing before oponents legs)...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piotr Adamczyk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>elblag, Poland</FONT></DIV>
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