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Santo
Daniele Spina
Our Sicilian member Prof. Santo Daniele Spina is an archaeologist
in Catania, at the same time an enthusiastic chess player and chess
historian, his list of publications in Italian journals is impressively
long.
We are pleased to say that he let us have his contribution "Per
un bilancio de fine secolo Catania nel Novecento", Catania July
2000, p. 657ff as an offprint: |
"Arcangelo
Blandini and Bogoljubow's famous simultaneous exhibiton in Catania"
(please click on the above picture). You will find an additional extensive
contribution of Santo Spina on Sicily’s chess history in the always
recommendable magazine of our friend Romano Bellucci: "Indice bio-bibliografico
degli scacchisti attivi in Sicilia (1500-1959)" in Scacchi e Szienze
Applicate, fasc. 24 (2004), Venezia, May 2005, p. 24 ff – here
is the English abstract
(jpg-file). (M.N.)
Further
publication by Marian Stere: Wolfgang Pauly. Challenge of a Legacy
(Bucharest, 2001) - Pauly
book
Jurgen
Stigter
"Reading is dangerous for a book collector. It costs a lot of
time ..." as Jurgen says with an ironic undercurrent in KARL
1/2004. Then there’s surely left no time for writing, but after
all our club founder from Amsterdam is the author of the most extensive
Lasker bibliography
I know about. Maybe we will be surprised one day by a printed new
edition – the copy on hand is dated 1987.
Furthermore we may point to the following publications of Jurgen Stigter:
"The history and rules of Rithmomachia: the philosopher's game",
Delft Ms (about 1989); as well as an obituary of Ken Whyld in "Board
Game(s) Studies" No. 6 / 2003, p. 99-101.
After all Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam's contribution "For the love
of books" ("Jurgen Stigter's dream of a universal chess
bibliography") was published in New In Chess 2008/5
- a six and a half-page article resulting from an interview with Jurgen
Stigter.
(M.N.)
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Hanspeter
Suwe
A "Fanzine for Lovers of Castling Affairs, Problem Chess, Chess
History and Bibliography"; in 2006 the trio of editors, Hanspeter
Suwe, Stephen Rothwell and Andreas Thoma has successfully managed
the 7th year of this magazine around the main topic "castling"
(publication: three times a year; about 130-150 pp./year). (R.B.) |
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Raj
Tischbierek
The
3rd FIDE GM in our association is very active in publishing –
the magazine "SCHACH" (www.zeitschriftschach.de)
published by him continues the good tradition of the GDR magazine,
but also that of the "Deutsche Schachzeitung" –
it’s a pity that he couldn’t decide to make this more
clear by the heading (and by the count of the years). Raj Tischbierek’s
Olympiad book (in those days there were still publishers in Germany
– like "Sportverlag Berlin" – who tackled
such projects) gives a very pointed presentation of the history
of these team matches. (M.N.)
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...
you will learn something more about the book with the gloriously
colourful cover at the web page fischingforforgeries.com!
(R.B.) |
Lawrence
Totaro
Even the youngest member of our association has already written
a book: Within a rarely treated subject – i.e. the chess autographs
and their forgeries – he has meticulously dealt with the handwriting
and signatures of Bobby Fischer as well as with the fakes having
appeared at eBay in particular. In addition to a preface by GM Larry
Evans the book contains an analysis by graphologist Sheila Lowe
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Govert
Westerveld
It’s true that our (till now) fourth man in Spain is of Dutch
descent but he prefers to research in old Spanish chess and draughts
sceneries. In his monumental work published two years ago (in collaboration
with José A. Garzón) he summarizes the results of
a twenty-year research – it deals with the early history of
draughts and its connection to modern chess as well as with the
very important part the Queen Isabella of Castile played as a projection
figure for these board games. José Garzón (in an online
"reprinted" article
in Spanish) even considers this book as one of the most valuable
works for the Spanish culture!
But meanwhile Govert Westerveld is already busy with new book projects,
a multi-volume work on the Lucena family is in preparation ...
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La
reina Isabel la Católica:
su reflejo en la dama poderosa de Valencia,
cuna del ajedrez moderno y origen del juego de damas
(Valencia 2004; large-format, 426 p.) |
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