Stanway Board Game Update

Here's an update on the Stanway board game I posted about on 2/13/08. The findings from this excavation, characterized in the press as a "Druid's" tomb, continue to generate lots of excitement among archaeologists and historians (with good reason).

Dr. Ulrich Schaedler, Director of the Swiss Museum of Games (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland), wrote a paper on the game board discovered in the "Doctor's grave" and presented it at a symposium put together by the Board Games Studies folks held in Marburg, Germany, in 2003.

We met Ulrich in Amsterdam in 2001 at a meeting of chess scholars and historians sponsored by the Initiative Group Koenigstein and he has been a friend to Goddesschess since. That's Ulrich in the center of the photo, taken at the Max Euwe Centrum in Amsterdam at the IGK Symposium, November, 2001. Ulrich has kindly agreed to allow Goddesschess to publish his 2003 paper on the Stanway board.

The complete Stanway monograph is now available through the Britannica Monograph Series and can be purchased at a discount price of $76 USD through March 31, 2008, thereafter available for $92 USD. Please help out the cause of archaeology and increasing knowledge by buying a copy of the research reports on this important excavation!