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Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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spiel, Mittheilungen d. deutschen Gesellschaft f.Xatur- uud Volkerkunde Ostasiens I, V, Heft, 10. Aiitonius Van der Linde, Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, I, pp. 91-96. 2 Cat. No. 167564, U.S.N.M.1 loin Korean Games. 4 In Manchu it is called Tonio, and the board on which it is played Toniko (Himly). CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 869 zontaland vertical lines, and as there are nineteen lines id either direc-tion, the number of places on which the men can be played is 19 by 1!> =three hundred and sixty-one. The Korean board is made in the form of a small hollow table, differ-ing from the Japanese board, which consists of a solid block of wood.In China the boards are printed on paper. The men used in Koreaare small, polished, black pebbles and irregular pieces of white shell.The players place their men alternately on any of the points of inter-section of the horizontal and vertical lines not already occupied, theobject of the game being to occupy as much of the board as uossible,
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Fig. 172. BOARD FOR PA-TOK. Height, 11 inches; 16§ inches square.Korea. Cat. No. 16431, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania.From Korean Games. victory being decided in favor of the player who has command of themost spots. Space can be occupied in two ways: by placing men onthe different points, and by forming an inclosure with ones men. thespace thus contained being reckoned as ones territory. The lattergives the Chinese name to the game.1 The invention of the game of Wat h% of which some of the most inter-esting characteristics are exemplified in the Korean Pa-toh, is attributedby the Chinese to the Emperor Yao (B. C. 2356), or, accordin- to other 1 For an account of Wat k% see Z. Volpicelli, Journal of the China Branch of theRoyal Asiatic Society, XXVI, p. 80, Shanghai, 1894 : also: Herbert A. Giles, Wei Chi; or the Chinese Game of War. Temple Bar, XXIX, )».194. Reprinted in Historic China and Other Sketches, London. 1882, )>. 330. K. Hiinly, Die Abteilun.-jen der

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