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 At the New York Athletic Club: Michael Negele, Calle Erlandsson, Jurgen Stigter, Andy Ansel, Michael Clapham and Eric Ruch |
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We headed downtown to Union Square where there are chess tables and the normal hustlers available ready for a game. |
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had a short walk to Fred Wilson's Chess Shop to look around for some
books ... We would like to remind here of Fred Wilson's review of the Oxford Companion to Chess in American Chess Journal (No.1, 1992, p. 112-115). For Ken Whyld had commented on that in his letter to Fred Wilson. |
 Michael Clapham and Fred Wilson |
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and then back to our opening dinner gala at Blue Water Grill, which
is one of New York's finest restaurants.
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had a nice private room and as soon as the event kicked off, the appetizers
were passed around. People started coming in and soon we had a full
house. There were 24 people at the dinner (including 4 spouses). A
sample of the commemorative menu is given opposite (please click the
small picture). Our guests included such authors as Frank Brady, Martin
Hillyer, David Shenk, and John Donaldson. A good time was had by all
and at around 10:30/11 the room emptied as people got ready the next
days activities. Here our gallery of Friday evening (12 pictures). |
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Saturday morning we all arrived downtown in Tribeca to Citigroup's building around 9:30. Once we got through security, we had a very nice conference room ... |
 The conference room |
 John Gruska and Andy Ansel |
... with all the necessary equipment to show presentations (thank you John Gruska). We had a brief welcome discussion, personal introductions plus a little bit on the KWA and then the talks began. All were outstanding, informative and professionally presented. But also all were enjoyable to take in. |
The morning speaker's included Martin Hillyer going over his book on Thomas
Frère and the Frère scrapbooks. Kurt Landsberger presented
an English translation of an obscure newspaper that presented some new
found evidence on Steinitz's early life. Eric Ruch gave a fascinating
talk on Caze's manuscript and perhaps a new date on when correspondence
chess began. Jurgen Stigter gave a talk on book projects like the "Scacchia
Ludus – Studies in the History of Chess" edited by Hans Holländer
and Ulrich Schädler and the Austrian Bibliography project of Robert
Karner which brought great discussion.
Then after a quick lunch break the afternoon began. I gave a short discussion on David DeLucia's new book and passed along a proof for all to examine. David Shank gave a nice discussion about his book The Immortal Game and answered some tough questions. |
 Saturday lunchtime |
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The new paperback edition of The Immortal Game. |
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Larry List gave a very nice presentation about Duchamp and Man Ray and chess. I believe this talk is going to be incorporated into his next catalog which is appearing at the Tate Museum in 2008. Michael Negele then gave a presentation on the Lasker project and the time table, the goals and also the contributors. |
Our second gallery "Saturday
Meeting" includes 15 pictures.
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