Publications
of our Members

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Tamás Erdélyi Our first Hungarian member, Dr. Tamás Erdélyi from Kecskemét published a lot of chess literature during the last years with his publishing house "Caissa Chess Books". Many of these books deal with openings but there are also quite a lot which are very interesting for collectors and historians such as works on Capablanca and Morphy. (M.N.)

Calle Erlandsson Correspondence chess is the focus of attention of our Swedish friend Calle Erlandsson – this series combines in a quite appealing way the games of the Swedish CC championships of about 20 years. (M.N.)

Alain Fayard Alain Fayard lives in Rome but he’s genuine French, a strong chess player and an enthusiastic collector of chess literature. Till midst of the nineties he was an editor of "Europe Echecs" and as it seems, he has unfortunately got into loads of trouble (and court proceedings) with his biography on Joël Lautier (1993) due to an alleged breach of copyright. In the end the publisher Bernard Grasset was at his wits’ end and withdrew the total edition from the market. An unpleasant story which our friend would prefer to forget – but his book turned into a collector’s rarity by that. (M.N.)

Vlastimil Fiala Vlastimil Fiala is a professor of political science – and an absolute phenomenon regarding his diligence in publishing. In the meantime reprints from Olomouc are probably standing on the shelves of all our members. By his compilation "Cologne 1898", the 11th German Chess Congress he has filled a painful gap in the congress books of the "DSB" (German Chess Federation). The publication of "Proceedings of International Conference of Chess Historians" is a further achievement of Vlastik (together with Stanisław Sierpowski), among others are included articles by our members Harald E. Balló, Isaak M. Linder, Tomasz Lissowski, Jean Mennerat, Alessandro Sanvito, Ulrich Schädler and (naturally) Kenneth Whyld – The White-Lasa Papers. (M.N.)

Johannes Fischer As a contributor to the cultural chess magazine KARL – originally a club magazine like many "prominent" chess magazines, see www.karlonline.org – our member Johannes Fischer is dealing with a great variety of selective topics all around chess – we chess collectors were brought into focus in the issue 1/2004. Johannes has a special preference for Emanuel Lasker, therefore we are pleased that he will take on the biographical part of the planned Lasker book. The FIDE master and current Nuremberger is freelancing as a translator and also active for the "new media" such as ChessBase and ZEIT-online. (M.N.)

Eric Fisher Again and again we are pleased to find that such a lot of our members have published small but valuable works on chess history. A special find of this kind are two booklets written by our friend from the English town of Hull, Eric Fisher who just completed the 7th decade of his life. Probably Eric has published even more of such rarities about British chess history as club magazines of the Hull chess club. (MN)

Richard Forster Richard Forster’s first work (in book form) on the English chess master Amos Burn has so far exceeded the manifold expectations and in all serious reviews it also met with an outstanding response, you will find examples at the author’s website, in KARL 4/04 or in NiC 8/2004 where Hans Ree devotes nearly 4 pages to this biography ("Quiet, but with a Revolver"). His in every respect weighty work will hopefully be found on the shelves of many chess friends. (R.B.)

Hans-Jürgen Fresen The well-known Bochum top collector Hans-Jürgen Fresen has several special collecting fields, a collection of commemorative publications and chronicles of German chess clubs belongs to them. For his own club he took up his pen himself and the club chronicle presented by him in the publication depicted here is the result of a long and meticulous research in numerous archives and libraries. And he can be proud of the success of his endeavours, as his many findings made it necessary to completely rewrite the early history of the Bochumer Schachverein 02. (R.B.)

Urs Frischherz Many of us know about that our Swiss chess friend and collector maintains a high-quality website on chess literature. But it’s completely new to me that his pedagogical profession has also become evident in chess education – a surprising addition to our previous listing. (M.N.)

José Antonio Garzón "Our man in Valencia" succeeded with a remarkable chess historical coup as José A. Garzón was able to trace the apparently lost incunabulum of Francesch Vicent in an Italian manuscript - his Libre dels jochs partitis dels scachs en nombre de 100 was published more than 500 years ago (1495) just in Valencia. José’s latest work on the birth and the expansion of modern chess is connected with this and further find(s) and moreover it was published in a marvellously equipped and illustrated edition. Surely many a person will already impatiently wait for the English version of the first Spanish edition ... (R.B.)

Tony Gillam Who has never heard of "The Chess Player, Nottingham" – meanwhile a one-man show of our friend Tony Gillam – "Hunter of the Lost Games". Uncounted – in the very meaning of the word – are all his chess publications; a good insight into Tony’s productivity, but also into his "ups and downs" is given in Sarah Hurst’s article in "Curse of Kirsan, Russell Enterprises 2002"; also "CHESS, July 1999". With "Munich 1942" I have chosen one of Tony’s recent works to which I personally attach considerable significance. (M.N.)

Rudolf Glenk Time and again it is surprising what excellent chess publications are created by pure amateurs – such a work presents our chess friend Rudolf Glenk with his "Turmtore und Kachelofen-Probleme" [Tower (Rook) gates and tiled stove problems]. If additionally, like to me, the opportunity is granted to admire the "magnificent piece" in Glenk’s front room in Forchheim will understand how it warms the problem friend’s heart. (M.N.)

Harrie H. Grondijs The Dutch study expert Harrie Grondijs has caught much attention in his field with numerous profound publications (both books and articles), we recommend to visit his webpage for an overview. One of his recent works is No Rook Unturned. A Tour Around The Saavedra Study which was published in a very small edition of only 30 copies. It is already indicated by the subtitle that this book completely deals with the famous Saavedra study – Günter Büsing supplied a detailed review and appreciation of this fascinating work in Die Schwalbe (no. 207, June 2004, p. 469-470). Remarkably, this book initiated further research on the early history of the helpmate, shortly afterward the reviewer and the author presented the result in a joint article (Günter Büsing, Harrie Grondijs: Die dritte Erfindung des Hilfsmatts [The third discovery of the helpmate]; Die Schwalbe 209, Oct. 2004, p. 537-542). (R.B.) Here a list of Harrie Grondijs' Publications (update 16/03/2010).

Rijswijk: Author’s edition, 2004. 361 p., hardcover