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好吧,其实写的都是写很肤浅的东西,不要嘲笑的太厉害就是了.
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To play or not to play, it’s a question. Nowadays, there are many things for us to play. Such as sports, video or PC games, music and so on. Have you been bored with them? Don’t worry, because I want to give you a new choice.
You must have played one or two or more kinds of classics chess, such as chess, go (weiqi), Chinese chess (xiangqi). And you may have played one or two or more kinds of popular chess, such as feixingqi, doushouqi, qiangshouqi.
They are chesses, but furthermore they are only a part of a bigger family. I want to give you a part of description about one from the big family in order to show up some similarity of this family.
This description is quoted from wikipedia. “A traditional Chinese game using illustrated tiles, It is a popular gambling game, The tiles consist of three suits numbering 1-9, three different dragons, and the four winds (east, south, west, and north). There are four copies of each tile. Special flower, season may also be used. ”
Yes, as you think, it is majiang, which has the same point with chesses. It is on the board that they all are played.
Board game is this big family’s name. All I mentioned above are a part of board games. In addition, the most popular game “suduku” belong to board game, too. What is board game? Board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (usually specific to that game). Simple board games often make ideal "family entertainment" since they are often appropriate for all ages.
I want to show you their history, tell you the characteristic of them, introduce and recommend some typical kind of them.
Let’s start with the development of board games:
History: Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.
Reference from Falkener Edward Games Ancient and Oriental, and How To Play Them: Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, having been pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb (3300-2700 BC).and reference from John Fairbairn's Go in Ancient China: A Chinese go board pre-dating 200 BC was found in 1954 in Wangdu County.
Popular: Board games first became widely popular among the general population early in the 20th century when the rise of the middle class with enough income and leisure time made them a receptive audience to such games.
Decline: With the development of science, computer is invented. Despite computer games are closely related to board games, and many computer games such as warcraftIII are based on board games, the rise of computers has led to a relative decline in the most complicated board games, as computers require less space, and the games don't have to be set up and cleared away.
Future: The modern board game industry faces a big crisis. It is difficult to successfully market a new board game to the mass market. On this occasion, most large board game companies have established criteria that a game must meet in order to be produced.
Board games having such a long ages mainly depend on its characteristics.they are intelligent games more than physical games, but it’s not to say playing board games need very high intelligence. Luck, strategy and diplomacy are playing the most important role in board games.
Luck is introduced to a game by a number of methods. The most popular is using dice, generally six sided. These can determine everything from how many steps a player moves their token, or which resources a player gains, Other games use a deck of special cards that when shuffled create randomness.
But purely luck based games are quite boring. Strategy made games funny at many situation. A player may be beaten by a few poor rolls of the dice , but over many games a player with a superior strategy will win more often. Some games, such as chess, have no luck involved. They’re purely strategy games.
The third important factor in a game is diplomacy, Two player games usually do not have diplomacy, as cooperation between the two players does not occur. Thus, this generally applies only to games played with three or more people. The more number of players, the more interesting it is.
You can find luck, strategy and diplomacy in a game you are familiar with. This game’s chinese name is qiangshouqi. You may have played it when you were little. The scene of playing it is just like the discribe followed. Rolling die and moving our token around a square map. Buying the land for building as close as pollible. Persuading your friends not buy the land you want. It is a simple and interesting game.
I’d like to introduce and recommand some typical board games that you are not familiar with or even you never heard. They are as interesting as qiangshouqi at least.
First of all, I want to correct a calling mistake that qiangshouqi’s real English name is Monopoly, which simulates the real estate market. The winner is a monopolizer for he/she is the only one in the game’s market.
The kind of monopoly is simulates business games. The most famous one is Puerto Rico.
In this game, the players are plantation owners in Puerto Rico in the days when ships had sails. they must try to run their business more efficiently than their close competitors; growing crops and storing them efficiently, developing San Juan with useful buildings, making their colonsits to best effect, selling crops at the right time and, most importantly, shipping their goods back to Europe for maximum benefit.
It’s need mare strategy than luck, and diplomacy is also important. It’s suitable for those who like economic or those who want beat others in their intelligence.
Another kind of board games is war games. Just as WarcraftIII or World Of Warcraft, the players gather the resouce and contral their heros and soldiers fight with each other.
It’s a strategy game in general, but luck is important in detials for the winning end of a battle may be decided by only you rolling a 6. it’s suitable for who like war and contral troops.
The last kind I wanted to introduce is leisure games. Carcassonne is a typical example.
In this fairly light tile-laying offering, players pull a tile from the pool and then place it against one of the previously played tiles one by one. If you create a new object (like a city, road or a monastery), then you can place one of your control markers on the tile to denote your control. Once certain objects are completed, like roads and cities, then the control marker is returned to you and you score the points.
The goal is to have the most points at the end. You can complete a object together with others or make your opponent hard to complete his object. cooperation and competition are both exist.
It’s suitable for everyone especilly for those like a easy game.
There are also many kinds of board games, but limiting to time, I cannot introduce them to you now.
But after my speech, you may know the history of board games and what belongs to board games. Weither you have played them or not, You can choose the kind that is fit for you own. You can have another choice about playing when you and your classmates don’t know what to do in a party.
Reference:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardgame
