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| Events and Meetings |
First meeting of the Amsterdam Group in November 2002. Dr. J. Stigter gives a lecture on our project at the International Colloquium "Board Game Studies VI" (Marburg, April 6–10, 2003): abridged version of the Marburg Presentation  Foundation event in Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel, November 21, 2003: 1st stage: Visit to the Bibliotheca Augusta 2nd stage: Foundation Meeting Supplement: Historical Articles on regional chess events Board Meeting in Amsterdam, January 17-18, 2004 (4 pages) Supporting programme: Corus Tournament in Wijk aan Zee (2 pages) Appendix: Bibliographical Remarks (2 pages) Reincarnation of a Marvel: The Turk at Paderborn - visiting an event on March 25th, 2004 Board Meeting at Brunswick on June 18th, 2004 General Meeting at Forchheim - Overview - Evening welcome; Slideshow I - Book market; Slideshow II - Guided tour through the old town centre; Slideshow III - General meeting; Slideshow IV - Trip to Nuremberg New Year's Potpourri Lecture by J. Eidinow: Reading between Squares - The Role of Chess in Literature (Düsseldorf, 2005-03-10). In expectation of the General Meeting in Amsterdam: From the club seat to the Max Euwe-Centrum in pictures Full of zest into the New Year 2005 (Photo report by Michael Negele) - Meeting in Wijk aan Zee / Corus Tournament / Board Meeting in Wuppertal Outstanding Chess Exhibition in Hamburg (Photo report by Michael Negele) Regional member meeting in Brunswick (Photo report by Michael Negele) Second Board Meeting 2005 in Amsterdam (Report by Michael Negele) General Meeting at Amsterdam Amsterdam is worth a visit ... (Report by Michael Negele) Second regional KWA meeting at the Spanish town of Tarragona On New Year: Pictures of an eventful autumn Photo report by Michael Negele Preview of the regional meeting in Frederiksværk Board Meeting on March 25, 2006 in Amsterdam Preview of the meetings in La Tour-de-Peilz and Turin Annual general meeting of the Ken Whyld Association in the Swiss Museum of Games and impressions of the Chess Olympiad at Turin (Photo report by Michael Negele; 6 pages) Meeting in Berlin and visit to Kórnik - a short report in advance Meeting in Brunswick and trip to Ströbeck, the Chess Village Short preview of the visit to Ströbeck Photo report (6 pages) Early end of the summertime – prospects for a "hot" autumn (3 pages) Third regional KWA meeting in the Spanish town of Valencia (by Josep Alió) Another autumn event - book market and board meeting at the Max Euwe-Centrum Photo report (2 pages) 2007-04-27 Kurt Landsberger's visit to Lawrence Totaro - a short note Lasker weekend in Bonn (20/21 January 2007) Short photo report (3 pages) Kasparov in Cologne - a short report by Michael Negele (1 page) Chess book auction in Gothenburg - a short report by Calle Erlandsson (1 page) |
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2003-11-18 Our Prehistory: Ideas and aims of the KWA already previously described! 2004-08-29 Juan Morgado's black Friday 2005-01-16 KWA members successful at the ChessCafe Holiday Quiz - see also the evaluation of 8 years provided by Calle Erlandsson.
2005-02-21 An information by José Garzón for our Spanish speaking chess friends. You will find more details at the Spanish site of ChessBase: Corto de ajedrez: ATAHUALPA versus PIZARRO 2005-03-19 125 years "Vereinigte SG 1880 Offenbach" - Leaflet (agenda / invitation) - Outline of the history ... (in
German only)2005-04-09 On the occasion of the decease of Pope John Paul II we would like to point to the following online article by Tomasz Lissowski: No Chess in Vatican 2005-12-22 Article on Holthaus by H.-J. Fresen now published. 2006-02-04 Supplement to the article on Holthaus (in German)
(29 KB)2006-04-15 Home found for appr. 6,000 chess volumes in the possession of the English Chess Federation, see Tim Harding's column The Kibitzer >> Postscript! 2006-11-23 Auction House Klittich-Pfankuch - A Short Look Back 2006-11-30 Dutch Trilogy 2006-12-26 Press release on an important discovery in Italy (information by Adolivio Capece). 2007-01-14 KWA members successful at the ChessCafe Holiday Quiz. 2007-01-31 Calle Erlandsson in Cuba 2007-03-13 Valdespino, un poco más conocido - an article by our member José A. Garzon at the Spanish ChessBase Site. 2007-04-05 An initiative of our member Siegfried Schönle on the occasion of Egbert Meissenburg's 70th birthday - here his circular (in German) and his article at the DSB site "Egbert Meissenburg zu Ehren". 2007-05-09 Tim Harding's column "The Kibitzer": The World's Greatest Chess Library 2007-06-06 "Sigmund Freud and Chess" (pdf-file, 300 KB) or Psychoanalysis in Chess 2007-06-08 A little chess mystery book: enquiry by Tim Harding 2007-07-13 Interview with David Shenk on "The Immortal Game" at ChessCafe 2007-07-18 Sarah Cohen: The Imagery of Chess – Surrealism and Chess 2008-01-25 Spectacular success of our ChessCafe Holiday Quiz solvers |
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