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history-of-games

13 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 2 questions, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does a primary source confirm the two-hop Mamluk card-suit renaming mechanism (coins → polo-sticks → batons)?
  capture promoted 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Dummett's own 1999 primary statement on unsolved Mamluk/Chinese playing-card problems does not raise the coins-to-polo-sticks misreading mechanism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification, argument-from-silence
• The spiorad.net Mamluk-deck reconstruction site's account of the coins-to-polo-sticks resemblance is its own inference, not a citation to Mayer or Dummett, and traces back to the same uncited Wikipedia sentence
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification
• Wikipedia's 'Batons (suit)' article carries no citation for the coins-to-polo-sticks-to-batons mechanism sentence; its only footnote is attached to a different, later sentence
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification, wikipedia-citation-practice
• Does a primary source confirm the alfil-to-bishop renaming mechanism (mitre in English, jester's cap in French)?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• A 1627 English dictionary, quoted by Murray, describes the chess 'Bishop' as 'cloven in the head like a miter,' textually attested from 1499
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, lexicography
• Murray's 1913 primary account offers no shape-based ('jester's cap') mechanism for the French chess-piece name 'fou,' and rejects a rival phonetic derivation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, verification
• Portuguese chess terminology (19th-c. attestation in Murray) recorded 'mitra' as an alternate name for the bishop-equivalent piece
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, lexicography
• The chess piece now called 'bishop' was renamed in each receiving culture for what its shape locally resembled, not for the elephant it originally depicted
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Mamluk playing-card suits were renamed twice in succession along their transmission route, each time for local resemblance: Chinese coins misread as polo-sticks, then polo-sticks misread as batons
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Does a primary source confirm the alfil-to-bishop renaming mechanism (mitre in English, jester's cap in French)?
  question open 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, verification
• Does a primary source confirm the two-hop Mamluk card-suit renaming mechanism (coins → polo-sticks → batons)?
  question open 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, verification
• Does 'knowledge crosses continents by getting renamed for what it locally resembles' recur across the vault's transmission chains — enough for an MOC?
  capture promoted 2026-07-21 · transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history, etymology, pattern-watch, moc-candidate