http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/ Latest News from Cyningstan en-gb Copyright (C) Cyningstan 2011 Board Games at Cyningstan http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=450 Sun, 20 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.450 This month a new version of bagh chal has been released for Android devices, called Punjitam. Bagh Chal is an ancient hunt board game from Nepal. Its name means “moving tigers”, and the game represents a battle between four extravagant tigers and twenty deceitful goats. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=449 Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.449 World chess champion Vishwanathan Anand is defending his title at a tournament taking place in Russia. Having won three times since 2007, Anand has become a celebrity in his (and the game's) home country of India. His triple win has made him a role model for children all across the country, and as a result chess is now being played more widely there than before. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=447 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.447 An ancient form of backgammon is now available to owners of the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer. The game is an implementation of Tabula, a development of the earlier game Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum that lead to the modern backgammon family of games. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=446 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.446 Damian decided that it's time this site stopped sharing his personal account on Twitter for updates. So now the site has a Twitter feed of its own! The account will help Twitter users keep up to date with news about this site and traditional board games in general. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=445 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.445 Today sees the start of the 2012 European Backgammon Tour, a series of tournaments in which sixteen players compete for a prize of 20,000 euros. The series continues till late in the year. Starting in Lefkosa in Cyprus, the tournament will also take in Munich, Lisbon and Istanbul. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=444 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.444 Two tournaments for board games important to Japanese culture are about to begin. The 70th meijin (grand master) shogi tournament starts today, and in another five days the 67th Honinbo title for go will begin. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=443 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:00:00 +0100 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.443 A college in Tennessee has added a new dimension of fun to one of the most popular traditional board games. The Life-Size Chess Tourney is only in its second year, but has turned the quiet board game into quite a spectacle. Volunteers don t-shirts to denote their rank in the game, with pawns occasionally having to have a change of costume if they reach the last rank. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=442 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0000 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.442 20 year-old Polish student Karolina Styczynska aims to be the first professional female shogi player from outside Japan. On a recent trip to Japan she was awarded an amateur rating of 4-dan, the highest for any foreign woman so far. An expert in the game believe she is ready to go professional. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=441 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0000 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.441 Archaeologists late last month found a Mayan graffiti board game at the Dzibilnocac, in the Mexican state of Campeche. The board, which is etched into the stone ground of one of the buildings at the site, is estimated to have been used between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=440 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.440 For some reason the booklet Reconstructing Hnefatafl never got added to this site before. This oversight has now been rectified, and the booklet is available in the Learn section, in the group of one-off documents. Reconstructing Hnefatafl is a booklet which has been in draft form since 2007, but has been referred to in that form by other researchers. The intention is to finish off this booklet eventually, perhaps amending it with more up-to-date research, but time has not allowed this in the past five years! http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=436 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +0000 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.436 Users of the Google+ social media site can now add Board Games at Cyningstan to their circles. We'll be sharing stories on there and monitoring the stream for replies and updates. So if you're on Google+, why not pop along and have a look? The page is at http://bit.ly/viEKaL - or can be accessed by searching for "Board Games at Cyningstan". http://boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk/news.php?id=434 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +0000 News boardgames.cyningstan.org.uk.434 This little hardback book was written by John Astrop, and published in 1980 by Kestrel Books. It contains fourteen games which are a mixture of traditional and invented games, but all are board games in the traditional style for two players. It is brightly illustrated and, while slightly too large for most pockets, it is still compact enough to be portable. It is aimed at a younger audience.