The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 173
inary checkers may beused, as in the illustration, and also a Mikado, and a Daimio. The Mi-kados and Daimios are like the menin shape, but of different size, theformer being the larger. Eachplayer places five men in the rownearest him, and four men with theMikado in the second row, theMikado being… … Japanese Checkers. Other respects the game is preciselylike ordinary checkers. History. The game of checkersis supposed to be older than chess.A game somewhat like it was knownin Egypt more than four thousandyears ago, and pictures representingKing Rameses II, called Sesostrisby the Greeks, who…
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