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Board Games in Academia V
Abstracts
Ulrich Schädler
A contribution to the history of Backgammon from a non-indological point of view
While the origin of Chess has been and is still being discussed in
hundreds of publications, the history of Backgammon, one of the most popular
boardgames around the world, has not yet been written. In 1995 the author
himself collected and discussed the ancient Roman litera-ry and
archaeological sources, while Koichi Masukawa has recently summarized the
evidence from Japan. The history of the game especially in China and Persia
doesn't seem to have been thoroughly studied. Based on the so-called
Manasollasa manuscript and on depictions of board games in Indian art, but
completely ignoring the evidence of other regions and cultures, Renate Syed
in 1994 argued for an Indian origin of the game. By discussing the Indian
evidence once again and comparing it to non-Indian sources the paper will
discard the Indian claim and come to different conclusions.
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