Ishido Accolade Manual

Supports: Macintosh Plus, wat ch 512K, 512Ke, Il, IIx, lIfx, Hci, lex, SE, SE/30, ay Portable ’ Requires: 1Mb, 800K Drive — . >. (Black & White) 2Mb, Hard Drive— (Color Version). Off SEE IF You CA& EMPTY THE POUCH AND DISCOVER F ORACLE NS. 1C B ANS W. YoOuR IN The Chinese called it Shih Tao, the ancient Celts called it Runa futhark, the Mayan Indians called it Kami-a-hota, and the Japanese called it Ishido. Yet, regardless of origin, when translated the names all mean one thing, The Way of Stones. From the first move, this | ancient game and beautiful puzzle recalls the ae of chess simplicity of Go. Ishido will call upon your deepest and concentration as you match 72, stones.on a ha wl 5605"70315 Michael Feinberg The man of Tao remains unknown Perfect virtue produces nothing No self is true self And the greatest man is nobody — Chuang Tzu One misty spring morning in 1989, in the remote mountains of China’s Han Shan province, a mendicant monk of the Northern School of the White Crane branch of Taoism walked silently out through the front gates of the Heavenly Peak Temple. The monk carried a stone board, a set of seventy-two carved stone pieces, and an ancient scroll inscribed with brush and ink in elegant calligraphic script. He also carried with him a secret which had lain cloistered and hidden for thousands of years. The enigma first surfaced in 1961 - when an archeological dig in the Sarsen district of northern England uncovered a stone board buried among Druidic remains. The board, which was later carbon- dated to before the Wessex Bronze Age, had ninety-six squares etched into its surface, arranged twelve squares across by eight down. Fragments of what appeared to be runestones inscribed with strange characters were found in a pile close by, gathered in such a way that they might once have been held in a pouch of leather or bark that long ago had rotted to dust. 1 A few months later a board of similar de…