Ulrich Schädler presenting his new book project
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As always time flied and after Ulrich Schädler
had presented the new edition of his Alfonso book Libro de los Juegos
we were unfortunately too short of time to present the Lasker project
before our final dinner in the museum restaurant. (See our Member's
Area / page "Minutes and Documents" about this.)
Café
- Restaurant "L'Oubliette"
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As a quite desperate Andreas Saremba failed to start a direct access to
our prototype of the "Bibliography of Chess" via the museum’s
Internet connection this contribution unfortunately turned out rather
short. In the next few weeks an appeal will again be made to those members
who have had a test access to the database up to now. The number of returns
to Andreas Saremba who is naturally waiting for further suggestions has
been very meagre till now, certainly greater efforts of our members are
necessary here to pursue one of our principal goals with more commitment.
Games
of chance belong to the exhibits of the museum too |
Apart from the nice dinner this evening offered a second highlight we
owed to the hospitable Ulrich Schädler who at the close spontaneously
offered a late-night tour of the Museum of Games – the pictures
show with what a pleasure this offer was accepted.
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You
will find 12 further photos of the museum of games in our gallery. |
Of
course at the end of our meetings the book market is obligatory –
my thanks go especially to Dusan Vukovic as well as to Tamás Erdélyi
and his companion Daniel Lovas who didn’t shy away from the long journey
with the heavy books. A special attraction was the selling of the duplicates
by the Musée Suisse du Jeu – there was many an opportunity
to buy a rare item at a very fair price. At the same time Ulrich Schädler
enjoyed the handsome amount which may serve to carry on financing the library.
The
Hungarian delegation is arrived; from left:
Toni Preziuso, Alain Fayard, Tamás Erdélyi (hidden),
Daniel Lovas, Dusan Vukovic. |
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From
the series "The Chess Greats of the World" |
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At
the Hungarian book stand:
Walter Simon, Tony Gillam, Dusan Vukovic, Jurgen Stigter.
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further photos from Saturday morning are to be found in our gallery
"Book
market".
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On the whole this annual meeting too may belong to our successes, in spite
of the relatively low attendance (caused by some very late refusals) of
17 members (+ 5 guests).
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