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Tomasz
Lissowski
Our friend Tomasz Lissowski from Warsaw is a guarantee of high quality
– besides his impressive work on Zukertort (together with
Cezary Domanski) his biography and game collection of Lionel Kieseritzky
(Wydawnictwo DiG, Warsaw 1996), a joint work with GM Batlomiej Macieja
seems to me to have received much too less attention. (M.N.)
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Larry List
New York member Larry List’s interests have been in the intersections
between chess-play, chess set design and the rich interrelations
with visual arts and music. His book The Imagery of Chess Revisited,
(2005, in English only) chronicles the 1944-45 exhibition of Surrealist
chess themed art & music organized by French chess master Marcel
Duchamp. 32 Pieces: The Art of Chess, Mark Sanders, ed.
(2009, in English & Icelandic) includes List’s extensive
essay, "New Forms for a New Era," which examines contemporary
artists’ visions of chess in the context of 20th century chess
& art history. A full essay translation in Czech is available
as well.
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Claes
Løfgren
For the first two years (till 1977) our Danish chess friend and collector
distinguished himself as an editor of the "Organ for Dansk Skakbibliofil
Forening" – nowadays "Skakbog-Samleren" is an
exceptional treasure for bibliophiles. The magazine was published
till 1984, sometimes with German contributions, for example by Gerd
Meyer, Lübeck. Today Claes is still quite active as a writer,
among other things with contributions to the Danish magazine "Skakbladet".
(M.N.) |
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MacDonald
Our Canadian member Ken MacDonald is a marked specialist in the
literature and the history of correspondence chess – and he’s
in very good company as Eric Ruch and Tim Harding are experts in
this field too. Ken published some surveys on North American CC
tournaments and – in a small number of copies – a booklet
on the Canadian GM Daniel Abraham Yanovsky (10 copies only!).
In 2006 he presented together with Leonard Zehr his most extensive
work, a history of Canadian correspondence chess, the trail of which
he had picked up 30 years before in Cleveland.
(M.N./R.B.) |
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Manfred
Mädler
There’s a pleasant little book filled with anecdotes provoking
some hearty laughs, written by the chess journalist, publisher and
correspondence chess IM Manfred Mädler in those days in Düsseldorf
(1991; 79 pp.) – 1996 he returned to his native town Dresden
(www.schachhaus-maedler.de).
Dear Manfred, when will you put pen to paper and write down your own
chess memoirs? (R.B.) |
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Karel
Mokry
Another grandmaster in the KWA, but also a "Great" one
for us collectors. Our Czech friend is regarded as an always reliable,
nearly inexhaustible source for chess literature (chess
bookshop), but now I have discovered him as an author too. Surely
this kind of opening literature is not necessarily the main aspect
of my collecting passion but here GM Mokry has impressively described
the French Defence. (M.N.) |
Godehard
Murkisch
A German publication on the subject "problem chess" undergoing
a third changed edition may be nearly considered as a singularity!
The attractive paperback is filled with 300 well-chosen tricky problems
(1st ed. Munich 1980; 2nd ed. 1982; 3rd ed. 1985, 224 pp.) –
time and again you will just like to pick up this small classic.
Godehard Murkisch founded his own publishing house in 1999: Nightrider
Unlimited. (R.B.) |
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Contents of the first
20 numbers of Kaissiber
(pdf-file)
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Michael
Negele
Natural scientists don’t really tend to be "masterly men
of letters" too, therefore our chairman is a "late developer".
It was in Kaissiber No. 15 (Summer 2000), that is as early
as in his 43rd year that he could go on in a thirty-page article about
the "Dispute of Theoreticians" on the Goldman Variation
(1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Qf3) and its exponents. Just as generous was the
editor Stefan Bücker in Kaissiber 18: M.N. was allowed
to elaborate on "The crime of Mr. Heyde" (Spring 2002)
on 30 pages too. Meanwhile 16 articles of 4-10 pages have already
been published in KARL till end of 2008 and the traditional
magazine SCHACH published some contributions in 2005 and
2006 as well. (M.N.)
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Additional publications:
(as editor/co-author:)
Together with Richard Forster and Stefan Hansen: Emanuel Lasker. Denker,
Weltenbürger, Schachweltmeister (Berlin, 2009) - see Lasker
Monograph.
Friðrik Ólafsson
Original chess literature from the North Atlantic Fire Island has
not become widespread and is virtually unknown in wide parts of the
chess world. The work by our famous Icelandic member presented here
was already published a good 33 years ago (1976), it has kindly been
transferred to me by Gunnar Finnlaugsson. On 240 pages it contains
a selection of annotated attacking games of the author against nearly
all important chess figures of the relevant period (including numerous
diagrams, tournament tables as well as black and white pictures; each
game with a preceding introduction). For lack of my knowledge of Icelandic
I am not able to give a more detailed assessment of the text, so I
will allow Gunnar to speak here (see the accompanying info sheet on
the right). Collectors who regard quality highly will also appreciate
the solid and appealing presentation (hardback edition with dust cover
and sewn binding).
(R.B.) |
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