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Not only Premier League football and then anyone else later on tonight we'll take a race road as well said to tell you some of the justices see people sitting 8 pm to maximize sports and see if this is your full station in this case finds love life. All. On their family in the U.K. Digital and online and Roger Sharpe were up all night when they play a board game around so will tell a lot about you the fact that my nephew was excited about hanging out at the board game cafe and lease with his new wife and I was there for the kids came along opened my eyes to an aspect of boardgaming I never suspected and yet in The Tempest Shakespeare's happily ever after revealing the end of the play the scores as FAT MAN them around playing at chess I should know that's not just a nerd thing for a more romantic and so I turned to Tristan Donovan and his history of an inch an obsession it's all a king. I guess we've always played the red mean it's. Sort of ended up being sort of categorized as part of this net coach effing Bill family's been playing ball games for Forever People been playing ball games forever in medieval times chess was you know a game of romance backgammon was paper I would the stars in the seventy's his book book games of Palm Paso fly for think it's actually quite a recent thing we started to see them as a bit kind of childish or a bit nerdy but this board game cafe movement is really strong isn't it and and it's a movement that does seem to attract people who you know might be working for a friend yeah socialize any one of the great things about ball games is eats Let's say you have a ball game café Now if you have a date at restaurant you've got to keep the conversation going it's all be all quiet you play a board game well there's some rules and if you're struggling for conversations where we can focus on the game for a little while it's kind of bit less pressured. I think it's got that kind of appeal to it I suppose to of your you know if you have a friend that you write of things to say you can still hire out together even if you're not saying anything yes actually is kind of face to face interaction about any of the pressure of just right where have you got a can't keep the conversation going well let's talk about the sort of overtly romantic kind of aspects of boardgame and why twister very nearly didn't go off the growth and can could you tell us how to us to get started yet so started in the sixty's and kind of into day one to disc aim that people could play with their feet since it evolved into a twist as we know it where you spin the dial and it tells you which color you've got to put your hand on your 1st so on and now in in the sixty's this idea of kind of people kind of getting that tangled up together was quite risque. The idea of oh we're going to kind of put this game out and we're going to get we'll tangled up together it was seen as quite quite outrageous and in America says which was the big department store refused to stock it. The company's competitors accused of being sex in a box I mean it caused this sort of bit of outrage and it got stage where the publisher Milsom Bradley when we can't sell this game we're going to stop producing and give up on it and what saved it was The Tonight Show in America which side bake evening primetime program. The P.R. Company had arranged for it to be shown on there with Johnny Carson and this beautiful actress playing it together and they for well we're not going to count so that even though we're putting out production and so. They go on T.V. They play twister captured the nation's attention and the next day everyone wants twister and that's how it started so it was seen as a very kind of outrageous game even though now it's sort of something kids play but it's funny isn't it because it actually was invented by and I had and you know what I'd agencies were like in the sixty's at least we've all seen Mad Men haven't. We could kind of understand why it was a mad man who came up with it yes pretty Speirs shoe polish promotion originally. Well let's talk about chess go about the beginning how did chess actually get it start Well chess is changed a lot so is it written A today in India. Early sort of what was it $680.00 some some time around then and then there wasn't of say a country called India. Or Empire and it emerged as this game sort of an almost similar board and a chess board but it was a 4 player game. Had quit the dice so it was a gambling game. And so you had these 4 armies fighting with each other and doing at alliances it was in some ways closer to risk than what we know is chess. So. Came on the pressures a gambling game from but it's another religious groups who kind of felt well gambling the evil you should shouldn't pay gambling games so they got rid of the dice and after a while they fought well you know for funding for people to play this game is a bit difficult that's produce it. And then disc aims sort of started travelling with traders moved over to Persia and they changed some of the pieces because pieces were based on the Indian armies which had elephants and things like bats and him Persia's I well we don't have these elephants were changed into chariots and so it's not a sort of this travel west and after Persia it went to the Middle East and they changed changed it to these more abstract. Plane pieces because I see Islam was less keen on the idea that you just have a literal interpretation of what the piece is supposed to be then it moves on to Europe and your it's like well we like this game but it's a bit slow because Tom didn't have to Queen pace they just had this one that move just like the king in say your star game and it would just be like moving for treacle your to play for half an hour just to get close enough to attack each other so in Europe we went we're going to have queens and make it a much faster game and really it's kind of this game has gone long and it's just picked up little bits of different cultures as it's moved along kind of evolving into chess over hundreds of years. And so it was it was the Europeans who put Knight into the game and the ships Yeah and bishops were you know a point of contention in Europe and in the French had the food laughing can Italy was the flag bearer and you know no one was quite sure what the bishop was supposed to be and it up being the British British bishop in the end there was a time where no one was quite sure what he was going to be but we need there was a peace and it had to be something. You know and we think about chess of course we've all seen the kind of resin reproductions of the Isle of Lewis Chessman But but actually the standardized chess match was another British invention Yeah so it's kind who How would Stuart and whose names attached to it is actually created by a company called John jacks which is actually still going and. What's happening around the this time and this is the 850 is international chess tournament started say rich people were kind of if you like chess were travel from England to Paris to play games against great chess players there and then off to Berlin and so I want and what they found when they got that was they didn't recognise any of the chess pieces because everyone had their own different style of chess space you know that come to play games and is that Bishop or is that the book I don't know you all it's completely different to what I have a home so it became quite clear there needed to be some kind of standardize ation if you're going to have people travelling to different countries to play chess and the Staunton chess set came along and had lots of vantages it was easy to recognise old pieces they were quite easy to mass produce they didn't fall over which was quite a problem some of the very old chestnuts have very tall pieces which if you kind of your chest bows a bit wobbly they were just topple over all the time so how do those advantages and people just sort of settle on yeah that's the one that's one way we want for everything and then eventually get the official chess organization for the world and it goes right this is the official sets and really that's when chess sort of became fixed and stopped changing because we stablish this international told minutes kits and well you don't want the rules keep changing 7 said this is chess and this is how it's always going to be. And then if you're younger I suppose you think that a game like backgammon well it's always been our own but but you tell us that back and worse in the terrible spiral of the quiet and before the one $960.00 S. Yeah it's been a game that's really sort of struggled since the Victorian era. Once of the playing cards became really popular gamblers sort of backgammon really lost its alert and by the time is coming to the late 1920 S. It it was just a sort of game that you know no one really played it kind of out to dition you'd get on the back of your chess board but then when ready seem to pay any attention and then sort of gamble is picked up on it and create a distance vice this doubling Q. Which basically inflated the bets as you went along and that revived it for a while and then everyone lost interest again so it's kind of game that's kind of faded away and come back and had a big revival in the late sixty's and for out seventy's a guy called Prince Alexis open Lenski he was one of the Russians who fled when the communists took over he really loved backgammon and went on this kind of one man crusade to make backgammon fashionable and he managed to do it's every girl already stars interested and you know you'd have people like Tina Turner room Ringo Starr Ramy Jagger and Jimmy Connors coming along to play backgammon and these huge toward Ment's where people would put their bets of course was today quarter of 1000000 pounds on one game it came this really sort of swish exciting thing the you know people got to remark Oh it's a player that had this amazing heyday in the seventy's before kind of once again losing it's a live and becoming this strange game where voters triangles on the back of the chessboard here. While going by. Victorian times and even predict Orian times in the 19th century was a real Haiti for board games at least for for the beginnings of boardgames tell us about a man called Milton Bradley So Milton Bradley really is the guy who kind of started what we think of as the ball game in the street he's a guy from He's in Springfield Massachusetts and he sets a perp printing company using the latest printing technology and thinks it's going to make him his fortune and the sales are dreadful there's a recession on no woman's to print anything so is there with SMA Sheens that you can't do anything with sake as well are events a board game and maybe that will sell so he starts doing that and basic rates game called The check a game of life and this was. Really in Cheam with the times because New England was a very sore puritanical area of the United States at the time so there were lots of book games with these moral messages the sort of Christian messages about good and evil being moral and serious very much in Cheam with that so. You had to go around the board and you have to avoid sort of doing bad deeds and do good deeds for the leader to reach a happy old age and so he created this game but he was quite worry bike seek for well my Puritan. You know think I'm kind of falling off of the virtuous path by making this game so he said Well where could I go and sell a game that would be seen as i'm virtuous I know New York City. Where else can I say that he went there sold a few came back and kind of forgot about it because he got into the business of doing prints of Abraham Lincoln which was make him a lot of money but in the meantime that game started taking off and so that really started selling and started getting all these orders from people who want these game that really start the ball rolling for the modern boardgame industry and today I mean that games evolved into the game of life which doesn't have any of the moralistic messages it's over the ballot you know who can make the most money before you die. What were some of the things that you aren't supposed to do when his original game. Some of the things were it had a suicide Square say you were not to do that and that was the worst square on the board had a game ender Yes absolutely you got chucked out of the game if you went on to that square there were also squares about you know adultery of things like that so you know actually for the time it was a relatively tame game there was one before Rick. Dimension of happiness and that was really severe I mean it was kind of you know if you do something on a Sunday you get sent to the stock's kind of came say I mean some Bradleys version was quite liberal for a time. And whatever became of as pictures of Abraham Lincoln business. Well it did really well for a while and then a little girl wrote Abraham Lincoln and said you know what you look so much better if you had a beard and Abraham Lincoln Group bid and Milton Bradley's Prince just had a bit less so after a while people find out Abraham Lincoln's got a beard and that's what come back this is an Abraham Lincoln what you're selling me to say Abraham Lincoln's beard basically destroyed his business. Just in time for the ball game to save him. Just as well now the other great name in the field is George Parker Tell us about George Parker Yeah so he's a little later he's 1888 and he basically really broke away from that moralistic type of war game as a child he grew up playing things like that check a game of life and or his friends just felt boring you know all the time it's just the these preachy games you know we want something just fun and so part so George Parker came along went right I'm going do these fun games and we're going to do game bow banking where you speculate on the stock market I'm make those money and this kind of thing and he was part of a really sort of I should in this new wave of Victorian board games which ruled about sort of the modern new well that was emerging with sort of ships and telegraphs and department stores and I mean it sounds very clean now but of the at the time it was very exciting so you get things like the game of bicycle race for the new new craze. Cycling and so he really sort of move games away from sort of having to teach deeds moral lessons to it's just about fun. Why why do you think that was mean sociologically whatever people ready to get into capitalism for example I think people would started to move into cities they'd started to divorce from the church a little bit. They were seen the stuff going up around them it was exciting and new you had electricity coming really it just felt like the sort of modern age was sort of arriving and there was probably more leisure time happening as well people were richer people had a bit more time to get well what shall I do in my spare time so I think think all those things came along whereas before the attitude was well if you're playing this should be some educational benefits here you know you can't just play for him to tame and you know there must be a lesson you must be almost working while you're playing well or in the words of a very old American T.V. Show this is the 64000 dollar question and your question is who invented monopoly. Lizabeth Maggie said. Yes exactly so she she's so disses 1982 and she's a sort of prototype fent feminist if you like she's an independent woman which is unusual for that time she has her own job she has our money and she and she is very politically active and choose part this big movements at the time called the single taxes and their belief was really land you shouldn't make money just from owning land stead let's polish your taxes and take and do 100 percent tax on land on just owning land so you don't get to profit just from sitting on a bit of land here and she wanted to spread the word of this she for our make a board game to spread this message and she created a game called landlords game and had 2 sets of rules and one was very much like Monopoly where you go around the board and say you've got 4 players one of you will end up the evil landlord with all glammed all the money and everyone