BGSX XV MUNICH 2012

Summary

17 – 21 April, at the Bavarian Games Archive (Bayerisches Spiele-Archiv e.V.)
München-Haar, Germany (east-southeast of Munich)

Host: Tom Werneck
Information: info@spiele-archiv.de

Program:

P 01   Matthias Teichert – The board-game-motif in Norse mythology
P 02  Elke Rogersdotter – Finding Places: locating ancient gaming (remains)
P 03  Chris Dobbs – The multifaceted uses of gaming in ancient Rome
P 04   Michele King – Konane: An old Hawaiian game played on rock with lava pebbles
P 05  Irving Finkel – Always look down (Graffiti Board Games in India)
P 06   Alfonso Atala Layun – Cuatro Tribus (Four Tribes)
P 07  Roly Cobbett  – Gaming finds from Richborough

P 08  Rainer Buland – Sense, Symbolism and Magic of Figures and Numbers on Baroque Board Games.
P 09  Edite Alberto – Games on Portuguese Rocks
P 10  Gejus van Diggele – The war on the table (Games and Puzzles from World War II)
P 11  Iris Ridder – The use of games in medieval mining societies
P 12  Steffen Bogen – Transforming space in boardgames
P 13   Cosimo Cardellicchio – A survey of some connection games in the 50th year of the publication of Twixt

P 14  Ulrich Schädler – A century of German history and politics in board games
P 15  Alex de Voogt – Mancala games at the pyramids of Meroe
P 16  Yasuji Shimizu – When was Ancient Chess Introduced into East Asia?
P 17  Bruce Whitehill – The game of Clue/Cluedo, a contemporary board game
P 18  Gadi Kfir – Road to Victory
P 19  Peter Michaelsen  – The diffusion of Tâb games in Medieval Europe
P 20  John McLeod – Scoring and Winning
P 21  Fred Horn – Three Games published in the 1980th by Cobrain, a Dutch Game Manufacturer

P 22  Adrian Seville – Distinctive Features of German Goose Games
P 23   Wolfgang L. Angerstein – Salta and Lasca: Two draughts variants linked by Emanuel Lasker
P 24  Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi (Alex de Voogt) – The game of Twenty revisited
P 25  David Parlett  – The history of Games & Puzzles magazine
P 26   Shahrokh Razmjou (Irving Finkel) – Graffiti board games from Iran
P 27  Max Nelson – The Origins and Play of the Ancient Greek Game of City-State (Polis)

P 28  Arie van der Stoep  – Why we consider Chess an intellectual Board Game
P 29  Dores Ferreira – Board Games and other games: some connections with mathematics
P 30  Wim van Mourik – A new look at the Alquerque-12 diagram from the Sethos Temple in Qurna, Egypt
P 31  Michel Boutin (Pierre Parlebas) – Differences and similarities of the structure of abstract games and sports games
P 32  Piotr Adamczyk – Museums and board games