Matthias
Limberg (on the left) who became a KWA member
on this Sunday afternoon is our 165th member
and at the same time one of the youngest. |
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Michael
Negele on the hunt for photographs –
unfortunately he was not photographed himself during his talk. |
The
entertaining-humorous talk of Michael Negele, "Arnold
Schottländer – a cripple, fond of chess" may be regarded
as a little reverence for Wrocław
as well. He explored the question who this Silesian master and pupil of
Anderssen really was, who – being at a disadvantage owing to physical
afflictions – attracted attention by his occasionally disrespectful
behaviour at chess tournaments and moreover had a loose tongue. One of his
bon-mots which survived him was a remark he was supposed to have made to
his wife: "Louise, if one of us dies, I think I’ll move to Berlin."
(According to Edward Lasker, Chess Secrets.)
For this lecture too we can offer the presentation sheets (with Michael’s
German-English mix) as a pdf
file (1.5 MB). We may also refer here again to the already shown grave
of Schottländer in Wrocław,
there exists a small Wikipedia
web page on A.S. as well.
The
one half of the audience ... |
...
and the other half |
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John Donaldson who above all had come to Dresden as the captain
of the US-American Olympic team gave us pleasure by his talk on the
oldest American chess club ("Some remarks to the History of the
Oldest Chess Club in the United States").
This traditional club is located at the Mechanics'
Institute, San Francisco, we already know this institute a little
from one of Michael Negele’s expeditions in 2004 (see On
the Gold Rush's track). |
There is an extensive section of 11(!) web pages History
of the MI Chess Room at the Mechanics’ Chess Club web site presenting
the chronicle of the club – plenty of reading material for all who
wish to learn more about this issue.
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John
Donaldson giving his talk, in the picture
the homepage of the Mechanics’ Institute |
Perfect
timing of a snapshot: I wonder what our webmaster
wanted to show to his neighbour (Susanne van Kempen)? |
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