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• Anyone who wants to reenact the Bobby Fischer / Boris Spassky chess match that took place in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1972 had better have a few hundred thousand dollars/Euros lying around if he wants to make the match as authentic as possible. In the year of the event's fortieth anniversary, Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen is auctioning a chessboard signed by both players, along with chess pieces, a table, and a clock used for some of the 1972 showdown.
• "Humor" site Cracked.com features "The 9 Most Insane Board Games of All Time". Far be it from me to judge whether a board game is sane or not, but shouldn't it first be judged conscious?
• Designer Todd Sanders speaks with fantasy site BlackGate.com about his efforts to redesign the 1981 title Barbarian Prince and about print-and-play game designs in general.
• Not to start the "Are games art?" argument once again, but – oh, why not, take a look at the following short film by Andrew Thomas Huang – which was a Kickstarter project, by the way – and try to imagine what the ludic equivalent of it might be:
I can imagine stories and artwork that have a similar "feel" to this video (which already includes dance), but I'm stumbling on a game that embodies the same spirit. Is there such a thing, and if not, why not? (HT: Craig Maher)
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