History of the board game Monopoly US and UK the year before World Championships through 2003–2004 but during the same year as of 2009 (see table, below). The determination of the US champion was changed for the 2003 tournament: winners of an Internet-based quiz challenge were selected to compete, rather than one state champion for each of the 50 states. The tournaments are now typically held every six years. In the past, the US edition Monopoly board was used at the World championship level, while national variants are used at the national level. Since true international play began in 1975, no World champion has come from
History of the board game Monopoly cover, "to making "Monopoly" fun again", by introducing new variations of rules and strategies. R. Wayne Schmittberger, a former editor of "Games" magazine, acknowledged the work of Gunther and Hutton in his own 1992 guide "New Rules for Classic Games" (which includes several pages of Monopoly variations and suggestions that vary from the standard rules of the game). Starting in 1974, Parker Brothers and its then corporate parent, General Mills, attempted to suppress publication of a game called "Anti-Monopoly", designed by San Francisco State University economics professor Ralph Anspach and first published the previous year. Anspach began to research the