"1480. The English imported their cards from Rouen until the early 17th century when foreign card imports were banned. The king of hearts is sometimes called the ""suicide king"" because he appears to be sticking his sword into his head. This is a result of centuries of bad copying by English card makers where the king's axe head has disappeared. Starting in the 15th century, French manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. This practice survives only in the Paris pattern which ousted all its rivals, including the Rouen pattern around 1780. The"
"king and queen which have no number and are also the only two subjects that do not state the character's occupation. In all four suits the I features a fool, ""Narr"", or its female equivalent Narryn, and the two highest cards next to the king and queen are the master of the household, Hofmeister X, who was in charge of the court during the ruler's absence, and the marshal, Marschalk IX, in charge of any duty that involved the use of horses or carriages. With the exception of two subjects, the Jungfrawe, card VI in all suits, and the Trometer,"
"Bare king In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a game position where one player has only the king remaining (i.e. all the player's other pieces have been ). In some old versions of chess, for example ""Baring chess"", as well as the game of shatranj, leaving the opponent with a bare king was one way of winning the game (see Checkmate#History). The relative weakness of the pieces in shatranj may have made this form of a win desirable. A possible exception to the bare king rule was if the king immediately after being bared"
"drawn. Similarly, if one player has only a king and bishop or knight while the opponent has a bare king, the game is immediately drawn. A quote attributed to Mikhail Tal claims that a game in the 1959 Zurich tournament between Bobby Fischer and Gideon Barcza finished with bare kings, but this is not supported by the published score of the game in chess books and databases. Bibliography Bare king In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a game position where one player has only the king remaining (i.e. all the player's other pieces have"
"king, or to put one's own orthodox king into check). Players play without kings until after Black's 12th move, when White places his king on any open square (but not in check), and Black does the same. After kings are placed the game continues normally, except that kings may not move, unless in check. Also known as The Black King's Complaint, Unirexal variants are those with only one king on the board. ""The black king disappeared, explains Parton, because he was fed up with always being mated in problems."" Black has a second queen instead of a king, and must"
"King (playing card) The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In French playing cards and tarot decks, the king immediately outranks the queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks the knight. In German and Swiss playing cards, the king immediately outranks the ""Ober"". In some games, the king is the highest-ranked card; in others, the ace is higher. Aces began outranking kings around 1500 with Trappola being the earliest known game in which the aces were highest in all four suits."
"In the Ace-Ten family of games such as pinochle and schnapsen, both the ace and the 10 rank higher than the king. The king card is the oldest and most universal court card. It most likely originated in Persian Ganjifeh where kings are depicted as seated on thrones and outranking the viceroy cards which are mounted on horses. Playing cards were transmitted to Italy and Spain via the Mamluks and Moors. The best preserved and most complete deck of Mamluk cards, the Topkapı pack, did not display human figures but just listed their rank most likely due to religious prohibition."
"King Albert (solitaire) King Albert is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is said to be named after Albert I of Belgium and is a variant of Somerset. It is the best known of the three games that are each called Idiot's Delight because of the low chance of winning the game (the other two are Aces Up and Perpetual Motion). The aim of the game, like many solitaire games, is to release the aces to the foundations and build each of them up by suit to Kings. First, the cards are dealt into"
"Round Table The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate. As its name suggests, it has no head, implying that everyone who sits there has equal status. The table was first described in 1155 by Wace, who relied on previous depictions of Arthur's fabulous retinue. The symbolism of the Round Table developed over time; by the close of the 12th century it had come to represent the chivalric order associated with Arthur's court, the Knights of the Round Table. Though the Round Table is not mentioned in the earliest"
"names for the kings in the Paris pattern (""portrait officiel"") are: Most French-suited continental European patterns are descended from the Paris pattern but they have dropped the names associated with each card. Kings from French playing cards: Kings from Italian playing cards: Kings from Spanish playing cards: Kings from German playing cards: King (playing card) The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In French playing cards and tarot decks, the king immediately outranks the queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks"
"was created in Stralsund from a Hamburg derivative. It is often erroneously called the Berlin pattern. The crownless queens' hairstyles reflect the Biedermeier fashions of the day. They are usually in decks of 32 cards with the twos to sixes missing since skat, Germany's most popular card game, does not require a full deck. Decks of 36 cards (with the sixes) are for jass and tapp, a game played in Baden-Württemberg. Decks of 52 cards usually include three jokers but Zwickern decks have six jokers. The French-Swiss pattern shares the same descent from the North-German pattern's Hamburg parent but their"
"shows the ""Kleiner Mann"" (based on Hanswurst) while trump 2 has mythological hybrids. Trumps 3 to 21 depict real animals. The highest trump lacks the pink panels that the other trumps have on both ends of the cards depicting its rank in Arabic numerals. Instead, it shows a gleeman and is called the Stieß or G'stieß (Fool). Despite the name, eagles do not appear in any of the cards. All other cards (face and pip cards) are of the plain suits: clubs, spades, hearts, and diamonds. In addition to the King, Queen, and Jack there is also the Knight. Face"
"king of diamonds wore a turban. This originates from the German-suited Old Bavarian pattern. The king of spades, who used to represent David, no longer holds a harp. This group is closely associated with animal tarots. The Russian pattern created during the early 19th-century is based on a Baltic version of a Bavarian derivative. The current appearance was finalized by Adolf Charlemagne. It usually contains 52 or 36 cards, the latter lacking ranks 2 to 5. The stripped deck is used to play Durak. They can be found in many countries that were once part of the Russian Empire or"
"central pile. When a card is revealed, it is placed face up under the pile at the corresponding hour (i.e. Ace = 1 o'clock, 2 = 2 o'clock, etc. The Jack is 11 o'clock and the Queen is 12 o'clock) and the top card of the pile of that hour is turned over. If a King is revealed, it is placed face up under the central pile. Play continues in this fashion and the game is won if all the cards (including four Kings) are revealed. This is a game of zero skill and is a purely mechanical process. The"
"available card. Once an ace is released, it can be built upon immediately. The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations. Achieving this is difficult as only one in ten games can be won, hence the alternate name of ""Idiot's Delight"". King Albert (solitaire) King Albert is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is said to be named after Albert I of Belgium and is a variant of Somerset. It is the best known of the three games that are each called Idiot's Delight because of the low chance of"
"secular hierarchy, the ultimate male ego. The Emperor is the absolute ruler of the world. The essential features of the design for The Emperor card have changed very little through the centuries. The Emperor sometimes got caught up in the censorship placed on the Popess (The High Priestess) and the Pope (The Hierophant), as when the Bolognese card makers replaced the Popess (High Priestess), Pope (Hierophant), Empress, and Emperor with four Moors or Turks. In the Minchiate, the first of the two Emperors are assigned number III because of the removal of the Popess (High Priestess) from the deck. Alternative"
"the end of the game, if one side has only a king and a knight while the other side has only a king, the game is a draw since a checkmate is impossible. When a bare king faces a king and two knights, checkmate can occur only if the opponent commits a blunder by moving his king to a square where it may be checkmated on the next move. Otherwise, a checkmate can never be forced. However checkmate can be forced with a bishop and knight, or with two bishops, even though the bishop and knight are in general about"
"cups and swords have beards, their knights and the knave of swords have mustaches. They come in decks of 40 or 50 cards. The French Catalan pattern also emerged from the Spanish National pattern. It kept the original shape of the golden cups but added beards to the kings. Kings wear long robes that completely obscure their legs and feet. As of 2016, Ducale, a subsidiary of Cartamundi's France Cartes, is the last producer of this pattern. They sell them in decks of 48 cards, that is, no jokers. The Parisian Spanish or ""Estilo Paris"" pattern is found in parts"
"Then, the Kings are moved and discarded from play. This leaves six gaps, four left behind by the Kings and the two spaces formed on the first two rows. The rule of the game are as follows: The game is won when all 48 cards are arranged in four suit sequences from Ace to Queen with an Ace as the first card on the first row and a Queen as the last card of the sixth row; it does not matter where the gaps end up when this is achieved. Maze (solitaire) Maze is a Patience game using a deck"
"Family in history. In 1921, Prince Henry was granted a personal coat of arms, being the royal arms, differenced by a label argent of three points, the centre bearing a lion rampant gules, and the outer points crosses gules. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only member of the British royal family to hold the post. Henry was the first son of a"
"The board starts empty. Players take turns, in clockwise rotation around the board, placing one of their pieces on any vacant square. Kings are placed last, but must not be placed in check. The two kings of each player are marked differently. (For example, of a player's two kings, one might be marked with a ""star"".) Each player attacks the ""marked"" king of the opponent to his left, and the ""unmarked"" king of the opponent to his right. It is not permitted to check the opponents' other kings. The first player to checkmate a king wins the game. Also known"
"King of Cups King of Cups is a card used in suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what esotericists call the Minor Arcana. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. The King of Cups is depicted as a mature, fair-haired man, seated on a throne and holding a cup in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. Here is a man who is ""all heart"". The king of"
"in ""100 Other Games to Play on a Chessboard"" (1983, 2002) by Stephen Addison. Chakra is played on a standard chessboard and has many of the standard play conventions as in chess, including check and the winning objective, checkmate. Stalemate, as in chess, is a draw. The king in Chakra is named ""emperor"". Each player starts with 16 pieces: 1 emperor, 1 empress, 1 samurai, 1 monk, 2 monkeys, 2 courtesans, 2 chakras, 6 swords. The emperor, empress, and monkey perform identically to their chess counterparts (king, queen, and knight, respectively). The others are governed by special fairy rules. There"
"no markings, and the jawbones of an ass. Chuz does not have a realm; he wanders the world at will, both spreading and attracted to madness. Kheshmet – called ""Fortune's Master"". Kheshmet is the personification of fate. He appears as a king dressed in orange and gold robes, and carries a wooden staff and a large, sullen lizard. Like Chuz, he may vary his form as needed, and does not have a realm. Instead he travels where threads of fate lead him. It is not clear if he determines fate, or merely appears where strange fates occur. He plays only"
"The bishop in the board game chess is represented by a stylised Western mitre having Unicode codes 0x2657 (white) and 0x265D (black): ♗♝. <br> The crowns of the Austrian Empire and Imperial Russia incorporated a mitre of precious metal and jewels into their design. The Austrian Imperial Crown was originally the personal crown of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and has the form proper to that of a Holy Roman Emperor. At the Roman rite of their Coronation, the Pope placed a mitre on their heads before placing the crown over it. Their empress consorts also received both a mitre"
"nickname was used ironically and not descriptively; i.e. that he was not in fact bald, but rather that he was extremely hairy. An alternative or additional interpretation is based on Charles' initial lack of a ""regnum"". ""Bald"" would in this case be a tongue-in-cheek reference to his landlessness, at an age where his brothers already had been sub-kings for some years. Contemporary depictions of his person, e.g. in his Bible of 845, on his seal of 847 (as king) as well as on his seal (as emperor) show him with a full head of hair, as does the equestrian statuette"
"which stop the black king moving to those squares are not also attacked by white pieces. Pure mate A pure mate is a checkmating position in chess in which the mated king and all vacant squares in its field are attacked only once, and squares in the king's field occupied by friendly units are not also attacked by the mating side (unless such a unit is necessarily pinned to the king to avoid it interposing to block the check or capturing of mating unit). Pure mates are of only incidental interest in practical play, but they are considered by some"
"King of Wands King of Wands or Batons is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include Italian, Spanish and tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana"" Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. The King of Wands card depicts a mature man who is decisive and passionate. The throne he sits on has no top, indicating infinite possibilities. The lion and the salamander at his"
"literally means ""the bearded"" (man), and phonetically ""the barb"" – a reference to the king of hearts' common depiction as a bearded monarch nonchalantly stabbing himself in the head. This card is of special significance in one of the seven contracts featured in the game. Four players (no partnerships) use a deck of 52 French suited cards (♠ ♣ ) ranking A (high) K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 (low). Players draw for high card to determine who will be the first declarer. For the next seven deals cards are shuffled and dealt by"
"(There is no magic square to which pawns can be moved and then promoted.) All the pieces except for the king capture differently from their counterparts in chess, and all but the king have different names. The king is the only piece that captures, as chess pieces do, by moving into a square that is occupied by an enemy piece. All the other pieces capture enemy pieces in more complex ways. Friendly pieces are never allowed to capture other friendly pieces. The names of the pieces and rules for movement are as follows: The remaining pieces all move like standard"
"Queen (playing card) The Queen is a playing card with a picture of a woman on it. In many European languages, the King and Queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called ""Dame"" (Lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the King and the Jack. In tarot decks, it outranks the Knight which in turn outranks the Jack. In the Paris pattern, each court card is identified as a particular historical or mythological personage as follows: In the game of Hearts, the Queen of Spades is the"
"have three male face cards. Queens began appearing in Italian tarot decks in the mid-15th century and some German decks replaced two kings with queens. While other decks abandoned the queen in non-tarot decks, the French kept them and dropped the knight as the middle face card. Face card design was heavily influenced by Spanish cards that used to circulate in France. One of the most obvious traits inherited from Spain are the standing kings; kings from Italian, Portuguese, or Germanic cards are seated. Spanish-suited cards are still used in France, mostly in Northern Catalonia, and Brittany and the Vendée"
"removed (or jokers may be retained and used as wild), although the United States Playing Card Company's version of the game uses two 52-card decks. The rank of the cards is ace low and then proceeding normally up to queen, which is the highest card in the deck. Kings are wild and may substitute for any other card rank excluding ace/1. Suits have no bearing on the game. Two or more (if too many people play, it is possible you will need to add additional standard playing card decks to your Spite and Malice deck). Usually the game is played"