Online lecture:
Chihyung Nam (Myongji University, South Korea): The Origin of the Game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi)

Today, 11:00-12:00 CET (starting in about 90 minutes)

More info and zoom link (no registration required): https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/origin-game-go

🔁 Boosts welcome!

#historyOfGames #GameStudies

The Origin of the Game of Go | MPIWG

Something for @gamesformusic since it mentions various 19th cent. musical games:

Carmel Raz: The Hidden History of Women Game Designers. Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

JSTOR Daily, 2025-11-26

https://daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-history-of-women-game-designers/

#ludomusicology #gameStudies #historyOfGames

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily

Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

JSTOR Daily

In a few minutes, the Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar continues with:

Mahdi Vazini Afzal - Exploring Persian manuscript traditions of chess, ganjifa, and backgammon: challenges of religion, custom, and creativity

More info and zoom link via https://gametable.network/news/news-wg2-seminar15.html

I can't make it today, unfortunately.

#historyOfGames #GameStudies #chessHistory #Chess #Ganjifa #Backgammon

GameTable • COST ACTION CA22145 – Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage

#Spiele über #Utopie und #Widerstand aus dem #Archiv des in Auflösung befindlichen Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung: Provopoli, „Kommunist ärgere dich nicht“ etc.
#Brettspiel #Kartenspiel #GamesHistory #HistoryOfGames @archivistodon @historikerinnen #histodons
Mit Spiel und Spass den Widerstand proben: Spiele aus den Protestbewegungen – SozWissArchiv.de
Mit Spiel und Spass den Widerstand proben: Spiele aus den Protestbewegungen – SozWissArchiv.de

I'm aware that my blog posts are super niche. So it's all the more satisfying that once in a while, somebody actually comments.

Yesterday someone from Sweden asked about a transcription of game rules that I mentioned here: https://gespiele.hypotheses.org/2237

I only have a rough draft transcription, nothing proofread, but I'm happy I could share it with them.

#HistoryOfGames #GameStudies

Sitting in an online talk by Oksana Ruchynska: Board games in the Northern Black Sea coast in Greco-Roman and medieval times.

It's part of the Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar series, which in turn is part of the GameTable COST Action.

#GameStudies #HistoryOfGames
#COSTGameTable

A small FB thread on why a Garde #chess clock from #Ruhla #GDR was used in the Fischer – Spassky match 1972 on #Iceland.
#BobbyFischer #ChessClock #ChessHistory #GamesHistory #HistoryOfGames #histodons @chess #BorisSpassky #Schachgeschichte
Ingram Braun
Ingram Braun

Only a guess but maybe it was the favourite of the West German chief arbiter GM Lothar Schmid. Garde clocks were very popular in FRG chess clubs during that time and the trade between the two German...

Spanish blog on the great soviet #chess historian Isaak Linder (1920–2015). #ChessHistory #gameshistory #historyofgames
ISAAC MAXOVICH LINDER
ISAAC MAXOVICH LINDER

@dioneira Hehe. Ich bin grad mehr als ausgelastet...

Aber da fällt mir ein: Ist die Vortragsreihe "Ludic Languages of Asia" für dich interessant?
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/page/astra-colloquium

Ältere Vorträge sind auf Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL95LEILuXJOB-EmydrHo9J4IkDcHf27BS
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