Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 25 | The affinities of this game with chess are, I am confident, more than incidental. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 22 | The man who View more quotes about called">called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a side, red and yellow, representing Spearmen, Tarnsmen, the Riders of the High Tharlarion, and so on. |
| 3 | 23 | The object of the game is the capture of the opponent's Home Stone. |
| 3 | 24 | Capturings of individual pieces and continuations take place much as in chess. |
| 3 | 25 | The affinities of this game with chess are, I am confident, more than incidental. |
| 3 | 26 | I recalled that men from many periods and cultures of Earth had been brought, from time to time, to Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
| 3 | 27 | With them they would have brought their customs, their skills, their habits, their games, which, in time, would presumably have undergone considerable modification. |
| 3 | 28 | I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of India. |
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The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a side, red and yellow, representing Spearmen, Tarnsmen, the Riders of the High Tharlarion, and so on.
The object of the game is the capture of the opponent's Home Stone.
Capturings of individual pieces and continuations take place much as in chess.
The affinities of this game with chess are, I am confident, more than incidental.
I recalled that men from many periods and cultures of Earth had been brought, from time to time, to Gor, our Counter-Earth.
With them they would have brought their customs, their skills, their habits, their games, which, in time, would presumably have undergone considerable modification.
I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of India.
- (Assassin of Gor)