Past Interviews: suggest one Walter Müller: Kempten 1 2 Alfredo Genovese: Milano Rick Heli: San Francisco Bay Area 1 2 Oriol Garcia: Barcelona Saso Stamenkovic: Skopje Remo Rehder: Norway Günter Cornett: Berlin 1 2 3 Moritz Eggert: München Mikko Saari: Finland Yehuda Berlinger: Jerusalem Gláucio Santos dos Reis: Rio de Janeiro Doug Adams: Melbourne Ro Sato: Tokyo 1 2 Wong Siow Hwee: Singapore Ivan Hanley: Belfast Marco Calcaterra: Rome

Board Game Players Around the World In these days of the early 21^st century when the world seems to be returning to the bad old days of violence and national enmity, the game table is a place for people to meet and forget their differences. Around the world it seems, we all enjoy our games. Or do we? I thought it would be interesting to find out. So today begins a series of weekly interviews conducted with board game players around the world. The subjects are not industry professionals, but just "ordinary" players, even though such folk are so much fun that it's not really accurate to call them that. The intereviews have been fun and the answers very revealing — I hope you find them so as well. —Rick Heli, May 8, 2004