A still young person celebrating an anniversary awaits us in Zurich, the
chess historian and International Master Richard Forster
completed his third decade of life on January, 18th. In the meantime he
should be so well-known that we can hardly reveal anything new about him,
especially as he is now several times represented in words and pictures
on our KWA pages (in this context referring again to his excellent Forchheim
lecture). His always well frequented
website has
experienced a noticeable enhancement as the respected chess historian
Edward Winter has moved his Chess Notes from Hanon Russell’s
ChessCafe site to Richard Forster’s homepage. The new column in
SCHACH: "Nachgesehen" - Schachhistorisches von Richard Forster
run by him since April 2004 has to be mentioned here, too. But for the
time being the peak of his young chess career is undoubtedly the publication
of his monumental work on Amos Burn, we have already presented it in our
member’s area; meanwhile this book has been extremely praised in
international reviews, it is said to be the best chess biography ever:
we are simply not able to surpass that any more – we can only congratulate
Richard Forster on this great success and secretly hope that in future
further matchless works from his pen will see the light of day.
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are pleased to congratulate a further person celebrating an anniversary
in Brieselang (Brandenburg/administrative district Havelland): Andreas
Saremba completed there half a century on January, 21st.
Working in the marketing of a well-known German electronics group
he could already use his specialized knowledge in the field of data
banks to good effect for the KWA by drawing up a first database concept
for the planned bibliography of chess (we will also remind here his
lucid lecture
in Forchheim). Only recently he also appeared as a chess author with
a first small work, though the limited edition of his neat booklet
on Jean Dufresne (see the illustration) is only intended for the members
of the Emanuel Lasker Society. You will find short details on the
contents in a note of the Schachkalender 2005 (Ed. Marco)
p. 24, so we may refer to it. We will surely come back to this booklet
in our Member Publications. |
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Congratulations to all!
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