Bishops Whist (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Dana, A. T.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Bishops Whist What attempt to copy feudal society by card cuts should we say half succeeded, lacking the bishop and castle, objects, or dignitaries if you so please to term them, quite as conspicuous in that age as kings or queens. Let us admit how much better the chess-board with king, queen, castle, bishop, knight, has succeeded in reproducing the feudal rankings than the old time card packs. Oddly enough it must appear that in the five hundred years which have lapsed since 1396, the date when playing cards were first produced, it appears that no attempt has been made to re-arrange these old time cards in any order of ranking consistent with historical accuracy. The reason becomes obvious when we consider that the bishop and castle had never made their appearance in the packs, hence of very necessity with ace, king, queen, and jack or knight as the fourth rank card, nothing like historical accuracy could possibly be obtained, but in lieu thereof, a mere half correct mathematical grading of kings, jacks, etc. A review of the history of the five centuries which have elapsed since cards were first invented reveals the somewhat piquant fact that while in that period of time all the great branches of the world´s literature, poetry, the drama and romance alike, have developed to perhaps extreme perfection, card literature, or to speak precisely, card packs, have remained like the stone statues of Pharaoh´s day, at a standstill. This statement must not be misconstrued to mean that great progress, and even perfection, has not been attained in the finishing up of the literature and structure of particular games, more notably whist, but that our card packs had never expanded into the full stature of their original possibility and significance. That is to say in plainest parlance: card packs, lacking the bishop and castle, come far short of miniaturing feudal society, even in a mathematical sense, for you might as well strive to count ten without repeating the numeral eight, or nine, as to undertake to make pictographs of feudal dignitaries correctly ranked, lacking the castle and bishop. Of card games we are blessed with a most bountiful harvest. In some of them the ace ranks as the highest card, in yet others it is the lowest card, while in still other games, the king, or jack, stands as highest card. Invention may be said to have outdone itself in the way of constructing new games played with the old time cards having ace, king, queen, jack, as dignitaries. Provided we search throughout the maze of incongruity and oddity which makes up the mass of literature devoted to old-time card games we fail to discover any new card character pretending to any historical significance. We meet only the same court cards, ace, king, queen, jack, merely set in a new relationship to each other, according to the game played. Who of us so bold as to deny that the chess-board affords the best miniature of feudal society or ranking yet devised, with king, queen, castle, bishop, knight, all the prominent characters represented. Establishing this undeniable fact in mind let us admit that with the bishop and castle added to our card packs we preforce group together the most complete pictographic complement of feudal society practically possible in card pictographs. More complete perhaps from an all around glance than the chess-board affords for the cards may give us kings, queens, knights, etc., more life-like Yet again should we draw the line of comparison closer the smaller cards, counting from the nine spot down, make up a better mathematical grading of the underlings which thronged the feudal lord´s domain such as forester, smith, page, etc. History affirms that the forester occupied an important office for he stood responsible for all the game on his lord´s domain. Let the nine in our card pack represent the forester, the eight the smith, the s
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