Excavations in the northwestern Palace of Facets in Veliky Novgorod uncovered a Chess piece dating from the 14th century.

Chess was popular in Veliky Novgorod since the 13th century.

Source says 82 other pieces from the 14th century were also unearthed, but doesn’t say when or where, or if it was part of the same dig (if it was, one wonders why the 83rd deserved its own press release).

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The Enneagram is a personality profile philosophy, with lots of mystical concepts and other such things I couldn’t be bothered to read through in its entirety.

An Enneagram coach, Per Striegler, has developed a board game called Life Prison to teach the Enneagram principles. Unfortunately, all the information about the game is in Danish, so if anyone can help translate, much obliged.

There’s a teaser video for the game, but it’s not much help.

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There’s a guy trying to form a Magic: The Gathering league in Dubai, where guys still can’t admit to women that they play games and where Magic and Pokemon cards are looked at suspiciously by customs authorities as possible sorcery tools.

The guy’s name? Omar Sharif. No, not that one, although that one was a famous Bridge player.

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Muskegon Heights, MI: An argument causes a man to leave a dice game, return with a gun, and shoot an inoccent bystander. (source)

Soundview, NY: One killed, another wounded at a dice game argument. (source)

Vail, CO: Woman found unconscious without shoes and pants in a condo office after having drunk too much at an evening of board games. (source)

Cincinnati, Ohio: Local dice game becomes gang hangout; man shot and killed nearby. (source)

Chicago, IL: An argument at a dice game carries over to a nearby street corner. One hits the other in the face with a gun, which accidentally goes off and shoots a third party in the face, killing him. (source)

Delta, CO: Two women playing cards are injured when a tire smashes through a glass door and hits them. The tire was apparently rolled by some kids who fled the scene. (source)

Ayia Napa, Cyprus: Man shot and killed at backgammon game. (source)

Following up on a previous story, the mother of a girl Czech Chess prodigy, who committed suicide (or was murdered) after (allegedly) being molested repeatedly by her father, has been accused of hiring a hit man to kill the father. (source)

And by the way, another boy died playing video games at an Internet cafe in Thailand. (source)

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