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Dale
Alden Brandreth
Dale A. Brandreth, the industrious person behind Caissa Editions
has also worked several times as an author or as a coauthor. Well-known
is his contribution to John Hilbert’s book project Shady
Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker Chess Master.
For this book Dale Brandreth made his rich fund of documents on Whitaker
available to John Hilbert who was enthusiastic about this excellent
source material.
Another co-production – of Dale Brandreth and David Hooper –
once filled a gap in chess literature, the lesser known and mostly
unpublished games of the third chess world champion were the focus
of the authors’ attention: 203 out of about 600 games collected
beforehand had been selected for the book The Unknown Capablanca.
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Øystein
Brekke
Our member Østein Brekke is at home in the fascinating
country of the trolls which - thanks to Magnus Carlsen - experiences
a pleasing upswing in chess. His comprehensive biography of Svein
Johannessen (1937-2007) is devoted to the formerly strongest Norwegian
chess player (IM 1961) who crossed blades with many grandmasters
of his time. Numerous annotated games are included in the book
which unfortunately has been published in Norwegian only. The
author gives a more detailed description of his work in this announcement.
(R.B., IV 2012)
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Günter
Büsing
Being a committed board member of the "Schwalbe" (secretary
and 2nd chairman) since about 10 years, Günter Büsing still
had the time to complete together with Hans Gruber this joint production
(including some contributions by Ulrich Ring, bernd ellinghoven and
Dieter Müller. Munich 1996, 51 pp.) – it erects a small
memorial in honour of the unforgotten problem composer and helpmate
expert Dr. John Niemann (19/04/1905 - 22/07/1990). (R.B.) |
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Bernard
Cafferty
As a long-time expert not only of Russian chess but also of Russian
language, Bernard Cafferty has joined forces with the famous GM
Mark Taimanov to produce this chess historically substantial work
about the Soviet National Championships. While Taimanov was in
charge of the games' annotation, B. Cafferty has contributed the
reports on the tournaments. You may read the more detailed description
by the publishing house in this pdf
file.
Moreover you will find a list of Bernard Cafferty's publications
at his Wikipedia
page.
(R.B., III 2012)
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Enrico
Cecchelli
Our Italian chess friend Enrico Cecchelli, MD comes from San Remo
and by his book "Sanremo 1930 - Il torneo dei giganti"
certainly a youthful dream of his own, namely to erect an adequate
monument to this chess gem, came true. It is known that only the
small booklet
"Das erste italienische Grossturnier, San Remo, 1930; der Rekordsieg
Dr.
Aljechins" by Chalupetzky/Toth from 1931 existed as a contemporary
documentation.
Enrico, himself a quite strong "master candidate" has
collected the game analyses of those days but also added own discoveries;
moreover the nearly 300 pages long book offers quite a lot of unknown
photos, biographies of players and commentaries on the rounds.
(M.N.)
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The
author gave us the following information:
"One of the strongest tournaments ever, in which all the best
players of the time took part (with the exception of Lasker and Capablanca
) and which was won by the World Champion Alekhine thanks to an insuperable
performance. Sanremo 1930 together with Bled 1931 represents the pinnacle
of this Great Champion's career and the ultimate display of his enormous
talent. Many games of this tournament, which made Sanremo's name known
to the whole world, have made chess history and are still considered
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PS
(05/11/2007): This book got the Zichichi prize 2007 for the best chess book
of the year by an Italian author. Congratulations on this award!
Alex
Crisovan
With our Swiss "young member" an old-timer of chess journalism
has joined the KWA, Alex Crisovan was editor of the Schweizerische
Schachzeitung from 1973 to 1978. His publications are numerous,
certainly the chronicle of the Swiss Chess Federation on the occasion
of its centenary celebrations has to be rated as a remarkable contribution
to the documentation of the history of chess. (M.N.) |
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colour printing on glossy paper! |
Luca
D'Ambrosio
Our friend from South Tyrol, a very committed member and one of the
three founding members of his chess club ARCI Bozen being left, has
now written his first book - also encouraged by our last year's "Festschriften"
bibliography (2008): a nicely made commemorative publication on the
occasion of the 25th club anniversary containing a comprehensive chronicle
of the club with numerous pictures and tournament tables as well as
a few games. The reader will receive a more detailed impression of
the book at the club homepage (Presentation
(pdf) / Notes
of 1 August 2009 (pdf) / Some
pages from the book (pdf) / Photo
gallery 'Presentation of the book'). Moreover there are two current
entries on the book (26/08 and 06/09/2009, in German) at the site
of the South Tyrol Chess Association ASV
Südtiroler Schachbund. (R.B.) |
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Back covers (click to enlarge)
John
Donaldson
Two International Masters – John Donaldson and Nikolay Minev
– have met to produce the ultimate work on
Akiba Rubinstein. The two-volume biography and game collection (revised
and considerably expanded second edition 2006 [Volume 1] or 2011
[Volume 2] respectively) is the result of a research work of many
years and deserves unreserved praise with regard to the completeness
of material and the correctness of description. The reader will
find 492 + 583 = 1075 games and game fragments in both volumes.
Naturally hardback volumes (instead of paperbacks) would have been
desirable, but you can't have it all... (R.B., III 2012)
Review
Volume 1 by Taylor Kingston at ChessCafe
Review
Volume 2 by Dennis Monokroussos - The Chess Mind Blog
Excerpt
from Volume 2
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Paul
Dunn
Chess books from Australia open the door to another world for us
– this small tournament book was the first work of our friend
Paul Dunn from "Down under"– he will certainly like
to tell us if there are meanwhile further publications by him. (M.N.)
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Russell
Enterprises, Inc., 2011
(400 pp.) |
Jon
Edwards
The well-known bishop sacrifice on h7, first described in Gioacchino
Greco’s games collection from 1619, is the topic of this commendable
work. Our US member illustrates the combinational motif by means of
more than 300(!) annotated games from 4 centuries and still adds 30
puzzle positions for the reader.
Additional reading matter:
Blurb
Excerpt
from the book
Review
by John Donaldson
Blog
contribution by Dennis Monokroussos
Column
in The Guardian (Ronan Bennett & Daniel King)
YouTube
video - Jon Edwards interviewed by Hanon Russell,
and the
Author's profile
(by himself).
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Michael
Ehn
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their chess column in
the daily "Der Standard", ruf & ehn (i.e. Ernst Strouhal
and Michael Ehn) emerged with this wonderful publication, being
a combination of a book (with a chronology, indexes and 273 chess
problems) and a DVD (with all 1035 chess columns from VI 1990 to
VI 2010 as jpg or pdf files). This work belongs to the 15
most beautiful Austrian books in 2010, a tribute certainly rarely
paid to a chess book at national level.
(R.B., III 2012)
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Hans
Ellinger
By his series "Tübinger
Beiträge zum Thema Schach" Dr. Hans Ellinger has created
an "Articulation forum for chess history, contemporary chess,
chess psychology, chess events" - this commendable venture was
started by Prof. Paul Thieme's contribution Zur Frühgeschichte
des Schachs in 1994. Outstanding to me are Volume 3: Schach
unterm Hakenkreuz (Ralf Woelk) and naturally Volume 5: Stellungsspiel,
Eliskases' strategic principal work of 1941 - eventually in German
translation.
For such an undertaking a lot of idealism is required, therefore we
hope that the Ken Whyld Association is able to give this series a
new push (Volume 8 was published in 2003).
(M.N.)
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Bernd
Ellinghoven
His name is especially connected with feenschach,
the magazine devoted to fairy chess which he has published since 1989
[formerly Wilhelm Karsch (vol. I-XI, 1949-70) and Peter Kniest (vol.
XII-XX, 1971-88)]. A bewildering unorthodox magazine whose irregular
publication is also bewildering. That’s just something for SuFis
(Super-Filosophers!!!) … (R.B.) |
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Hans
Engberts †
That’s no chess book – nevertheless I found several passages
related to chess – Hans Engberts and his partner René
Hesselink give a report on 20 years in the Utrecht second-hand bookshop
"Hinderickx & Winderickx" – many episodes seem
familiar to me – a likeable book by bibliophiles for bibliophiles
(or bibliomaniacs ?). (M.N.)
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