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Games ancient and oriental and how to play them (Book information)

In 1892, a book on historic and oriental board games, written by Edward Falkener appeared. The book is still interesting for board games enthousiasts. A large number of games are described in the book, including a number of chess variants, sometimes given with sample games.

Dover published later reprints in paperback of this book.

Edward Falkener
Games ancient and oriental and how to play them
Dover Publications, Inc., New York,
I.S.B.N. 486-20739-0
366 pages;
1892 (reprinted e.g., in 1962)

book cover Games ancient and oriental and how to play them

WWW page created: February 25, 2003.
Written by: Hans Bodlaender.