Bruce Whitehill, opening up the official session of AGPC's Convention 2005

Richard Huzzey, presenting on "Imperial culture and racial attitudes in Nineteenth Century British board games" to the AGPC conventioneers

Richard Huzzey

Richard Huzzey

Frans de Vreugd, discussing "Mechanical puzzles of Mongolia" at the AGPC convention

Frans de Vreugd in the midst of his presentation

Frans de Vreugd, presenting on the "Mechanical puzzles of Mongolia"

Frans de Vreugd

Frans de Vreugd

Frans de Vreugd, as Jerry Slocum from the audience gets engaged.

Gejus Van Diggele of the Netherlands, at the initiation of his talk about "Games and Puzzles from World War II"

Gejus Van Diggele, presenting

Gejus Van Diggele

Gejus Van Diggele

Feeding frenzy as AGPCers stroll in to the Greek Restaurant

At the Greek Restaurant, as food is being served

The back room of the Greek Restaurant, also filled with AGPCers and BGSers and BCDers.

Bruce Whitehill, introducing the luncheon speakers at the Greek Restaurant

Anne Gaston, discussing Scandinavian games

Helmut Schwarz (Germany), Director of the Neurenberg Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum), discussing on the spot at the Greek Restaurant

Piet Notebaert, co-director of the Games Archives, KHBO Spellenarchief, in Belgium

I am David Parlett.

Niek Neuwahl

The Greek Valley Restaurant

Mayari Granados (Germany), presenting on "European Transformation Tables—Furniture that opens up to reveal a game table"

Adrian Seville presenting “The Game of Goose”

Jeremy Secker (center), in discussion with Bruce Whitehill (right)

Geert Bekkering (The Netherlands) presenting "Is the jigsaw puzzle a German invention?"

Geert Bekkering (The Netherlands) presenting "Is the jigsaw puzzle a German invention?"

Geert Bekkering

Mayari Granados (Germany) presenting "European Games of Traveling by Post”

Mayari Granados

Maria Argyriadis (Greece) presenting “Paper Games of Greece”

Fred Horn (The Netherlands) presenting “STRATEGO: Things You Didn’t Know”

Jeanne Speizer and Geert Bekkering

Francis Spear and Jonathan Hatfield

Jeremy Secker and the renowned metagrobologist,

David Singmaster

Fred Horn and Stratego games from throughout the world

Gejus Van Diggele and John Ellerbe

Roy Shepard and Mary Lush

Maria Argyriadis, Richard Ballam, and Jeremy Secker

Piet Notebaert and Rosemary Howbrigg

David Deayton, Jerry Slocum, and Harold Raizer

Mayari Granados, Roy Shepard, and Helmut Schwarz

Thierry Depaulis and Bruce Whitehill

Michelle and Chris Jaques

Richard Ballam with his Jaques games, with John Spear and Alan Griffiths

Michelle and Chris Jaques

Chris Jaques at right, Alan Griffiths and Gillian Kernon at left, at the table with Jaques games back to the 1800s.

Richard Ballam (right) with Jaques games from his and other's collections.

Bob Finn, snapping a shot of Snap, Tiddledy-Winks, and other Jaques games.

Rick Tucker by the exhibit of Jaques games

Jonathan Hatfield (right) by the Jaques games. Richard Ballam and Chris Jaques are to the left

Jonathan Hatfield and the Jaques games

AGPCers at the pub in the Marriott Maida Vale

Chris Jaques (left) with James Dalgety and Jonathan Hatfield (right)

(Left to right): Chris Jaques, Jeff Roux, Roy Shepard, David Beffa-Negrini, Francis Spear

(Left to right): Michelle and Chris Jaques, Jeff Roux, Roy Shepard, David Beffa-Negrini, Francis Spear

Jeanne and Henry Strout decked out in puzzle fashion

Bruce Whitehill and Debby Krim

Richard Ballam

Chris Jaques

Bruce Whitehill presenting an award of appreciation to Chris Jaques

Michelle Jaques, Jerry Slocum, Chris Jaques, Richard Ballam

Jerry Slocum and Chris Jaques

Chris Jaques with AGPC's award of appreciation for 150 years of helping the world to play

Chris Jaques with AGPC's award of appreciation for 150 years of helping the world to play

AGPC's award of appreciation to Chris Jaques for 150 years of helping the world to play

Chris Jaques and John Ellerbe

Joe and Kim Seymour with Roy Shepard

James Dalgety (left) with Richard Ballam and Chris Jaques (right)

Cingalese by Jaques & Son, a variety of the game of goose