羅伯特·查爾斯·貝爾

生於安大略省，1928年赴英國求學，成為外科醫生，業餘興趣是研究各種桌上遊戲，在1960年出版研究書《來自許多文明的版圖、桌上遊戲》（Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations），並替遊戲作有系統分類，自鑄相關術語，如擲賽遊戲。

• The Boardgame Book. London: Bookthrift Company, 1979.
• Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-486-23855-5
  • Reprint: New York: Exeter Books, 1983.
• Discovering Mah-Jongg - Shire Publications.
• Discovering Chess - Shire Publications
• Discovering Old Board Games - Shire Publications #182 ISBN 0-85263-235-5
• Discovering Backgammon - Shire Publications #201 ISBN 0-85263-263-0

• Bell, RC, rev. 1969 and rpt. with vol 2 as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Mineola, NY: Dover, 1979, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, ISBN 0-486-23855-5
• Bell, RC, rpt. with vol 1 as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Mineola, NY: Dover, 1979, London: Oxford University Press, 1969, ISBN 0-486-23855-5
• Bell, RC, 2nd, Shire Publications, 1984, ISBN 978-0-85263-474-5
• Finkel, Irving (编), , , London: The British Museum Press: v–vi, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7141-1153-7
• Parlett, David, , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-212998-8