Edward Falkener (1814–1896)
Auteur de Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play Them
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Edward Falkener
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Falkener, Edward
- Date de naissance
- 1814-02-28
- Date de décès
- 1896-12-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Pays (pour la carte)
- England
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Cheshire, England, UK
Camarthenshire, England, UK - Études
- Royal Academy
- Professions
- architect
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 62
- Popularité
- #271,094
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Favoris
- 1
Falkener’s take on various other games is respectful and interesting enough, but badly handicapped by his choice of idiosyncratic notation systems – even for chess, which had an establish notation at the time he was writing – and an almost complete lack of illustrations. Admittedly it was somewhat harder to print illustrations in 1892; still Falkener does include several illustrations of ornamental chess boards but few of actual positions. This is especially lacking in his discussion of backgammon – it’s entirely text, with no illustration of the board at all. Falkener’s confusing discussion of go indicates that although he understood it was a sophisticated and highly challenging game, he probably seldom or never played himself.
About the last third of the book is devoted to magic squares; this must have been a hobby of Falkener’s as they can only be considered a board game by stretching the definition a lot, and there are more illustrations of magic squares than all other games combined. Falkener provides methods for construction magic squares of arbitrary side (while noting you need at least three rows and columns for a magic square and it’s a lot easier to make squares with an odd number of rows than with an even number).
Mostly, then, of historical interest. Some of the chess variations seem intriguing enough that I may look around and see if there are some sets available.… (plus d'informations)