Persons celebrating an Anniversary
in February 2005
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At the beginning
we would like to add a special birthday to our last greetings as our member
Martin Ramsauer became father for the second time on January,
17th – this time of a daughter. Congratulations to the Ramsauer family
on this happy event!
The Russian grandmaster Yuri Lvovich Averbakh looked back
on a very full and most varied chess career when he turned 83 on February,
8th. On the occasion of his last birthday we already emphasized his contribution
to the chess world; we would like to add his organizational commitment for
the USSR Chess Federation whose president he was from 1972 to 1977. Only
about one year ago a classic fundamental work from his pen, Was man
über das Endspiel wissen muß (Heidelberg, 1979 und 1986),
was published as an electronic book on CD-ROM (under the title Chess
Endings: Essential Knowledge), a detailed review has been supplied
by Steve Higgins at ChessCafe.com
(a German translation appeared in Computer-Schach & Spiele
1/2004, p. 10-12); you will get further information about it at Chess
Multimedia.
Only one day later our Spanish member Miquel Artigas celebrated
his 51st birthday. It is thanks to Josep Alió’s last year’s
information that we know a little about him, we will quote it here:
"By the way, on December 14th, 2004, there was a "Spanish KWA
meeting" in Sabadell, at Miquel Artigas’ home. We met José
Antonio Garzón (Valencia), Miquel Artigas (Sabadell) and Josep Alió
(Tarragona). It was a nice and very satisfying day, enjoying the fantastic
Artigas collection and talking about chess, its books and its history. Artigas
wants to find all the Spanish chess material published so far. Now he is
buying all new Spanish chess books and magazines that are
published. He's only 50 years old and in the future (today?) his library
will be (is) a reference in Spanish (and especially Catalan) chess material
for all chess collectors and historians." (Josep Alió)
The photo shows our Spanish trio on the occasion of this meeting:
This Spanish group calls itself "Círculo José
Paluzíe":
José Antonio Garzón, Miquel Artigas, Josep Alió
(from the left to the right) |
The first person celebrating an anniversary in this month is our founding
member Harald E. Balló, he looked back on half a
century on February, 11th. He is surely well-known worldwide as a chess
bibliophile (possessing the second largest collection of chess literature
in Germany) and as a chess historian ("Schach-Zettel"), for further
details we may refer to his interesting homepage.
In the past he has dealt intensively with the history of the German Chess
Federation (DSB) which led to his last year’s book publication: Geschichte
des Deutschen Schachbundes 1861-1945 – we will soon include this
book in our section "Publications of our Members". It shouldn’t
be left unmentioned that Harald Balló is additionally very committed
in organizational work at both association and club level, he is the president
of the Hessian Chess Association as well as the chairman of his chess club,
the "Vereinigte Schachgesellschaft 1880 Offenbach/M." (United
Chess Society 1880 Offenbach/M.). Naturally he is particularly integrated
into the 125th anniversary of his club facing him now and into the forthcoming
festivities, details are linked in the News of the Month
at our page HOME!
Jes Knudsen from the Danish town of Fredriksvaerk celebrated
his 50th birthday as well, his time had come on February, 26th. Unfortunately
we don’t know much about our Danish chess friend apart from the fact
that he also belongs to the well-known collector species – we have
spotted him during the Klittich auction in June, 2004 where he was recorded
in a picture, too. At that
time he suggested organizing a regional meeting of the Scandinavian collectors
– maybe we will hear about it some time!?
Congratulations to all!
PS:
You will find all previous birthday greetings in our archives!
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