jess messel wrote on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 02:27 PM EDT:Poor ★
If anyone who has read this book or series of books, by Edgar Rice
Burroughs, and thinks that this game is a representation of a war between
the yellow and black races of Mars. That is totally wrong as far as I'm
concerned. This game was invented by E.R.B. so that there would be an
analog to chess and i don't know why he chose black and orange for the
color pieces. If you read all of the books,(at least the first five), you
would have read that the yellow race disappeared thousands of years ago
and the only struggle that the black race had was with the Therns who
were
WHITE and wore yellow wigs. Before book #3 the yellow races was a lost
race
just like the blacks were a lost race until book #2.
Now as to why in book#5 there is no flier, in this game is
because
the city has none and no contact with the outside world except for the
various raids that they conduct. They are a very hidebound culture and
still believe in ghosts and supernatural creatures. They don't use
fliers
so why would their games have them. They use a piece called an odwar. it
has the same movements. I'm sure that in the modern red races' past
they
had the same piece but they just renamed it to reflect the ever changing
culture and to reflect on the significience of the flier on their
everyday
lives. Please forward any remarks on my opinion to [email protected]
i'd welcome any comments.
If anyone who has read this book or series of books, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and thinks that this game is a representation of a war between the yellow and black races of Mars. That is totally wrong as far as I'm concerned. This game was invented by E.R.B. so that there would be an analog to chess and i don't know why he chose black and orange for the color pieces. If you read all of the books,(at least the first five), you would have read that the yellow race disappeared thousands of years ago and the only struggle that the black race had was with the Therns who were WHITE and wore yellow wigs. Before book #3 the yellow races was a lost race just like the blacks were a lost race until book #2.
Now as to why in book#5 there is no flier, in this game is because the city has none and no contact with the outside world except for the various raids that they conduct. They are a very hidebound culture and still believe in ghosts and supernatural creatures. They don't use fliers so why would their games have them. They use a piece called an odwar. it has the same movements. I'm sure that in the modern red races' past they had the same piece but they just renamed it to reflect the ever changing culture and to reflect on the significience of the flier on their everyday lives. Please forward any remarks on my opinion to [email protected] i'd welcome any comments.