Alessandro
Sanvito has informed us that his book I codici scacchistici
di Giulio Cesare Polerio e Gioacchino Greco has now been
published in a second edition (1st edition 2005). It contains some corrections
and additions as well as a preface in English.
Price: 18 Euro
The book is available from Messaggero
Scacchi,
order by e-mail: info@messaggeroscacchi.it
Here the direct link to the catalogue entry:
www.messaggeroscacchi.it/catalogo/...
Festschrift
for Egbert Meissenburg. International Research in Chess, ed. by Siegfried
Schönle
"As the editor I am delighted to draw your attention to the long-awaited
commemorative publication on the 70th birthday of Egbert Meissenburg which
will be delivered in coming August. The first edition will have 32 copies
only – additional will follow." (Siegfried Schönle)
Bibliographic Data:
Siegfried Schönle (Ed.)
Festschrift for Egbert Meissenburg · International Research
in Chess
869 pages, ill., 170x260 mm, weight 2000 grammes.
Dark blue buckram, gilt stamping, rounded corners.
2008 Vindobona, Refordis Verlag.
First edition of 32 copies,
individualised throughout the book.
Reduced price for contributors to the commemorative publication:
141,20 Euro (125,20 + 16 for shipping and insurance within
Europe)
Normal price: 292,60 Euro
Refordis Verlag Publishing GmbH
Migazziplatz 8-9/ 6/ 2
A-1120 Wien
Österreich, Austria
e-mail: refordis@chello.at
See the following for a list of all authors (contributions to the book
appear in German, English, French or Italian):
Kersten Althoff — Zweibrücken, Germany
Yuri Averbakh, GM — Moscow, Russia
Jeffrey B. Berlin, Prof. Ph.D. — Langhorne, USA
Christiaan M. Bijl — Leidschendam, Netherlands
Andreas Bock-Raming, Prof. Dr. — Göttingen/Mainz, Germany
Dale A. Brandreth, BSc, MSc, PhD —Yorklyn, Delaware, USA
Jean-Louis Cazaux — Toulouse, France
Otto Dietze — Wählitz, Germany
Hans Ellinger, Dr. — Tübingen, Germany
Helmut Faust, Prof. Dr. — Coburg, Germany
Vlastimil Fiala, Doc. PhDr. — Olomouc, Czech Republic
Norbert Fieberg — Witten, Germany
Hans-Jürgen Fresen — Bochum, Germany
Dmitry Gorodin — Freiburg, Deutschland
Tony Gillam — Nottingham, UK
Bernd Gräfrath, Prof. Dr. — Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Erika Greber, Prof. Dr. — München/Erlangen, Germany
Robert Hübner, Dr., GM — Köln, Germany
Gerhard Josten, Dipl. Ing. — Köln, Germany
Isaak M. Linder, Dr. — Moskau, Russia
Tomasz Lissowski, Dipl. Ing. — Warschau, Poland
Maria Łuczak,
Universitätsabsolventin — Kórnik, Poland
Koichi Masukawa, Prof. — Itami-shi Hyogo-kem, Japan
Jean-Michel Mehl, Prof. Dr. — Strasbourg, France
Egbert Meissenburg, Notar — Seevetal, Germany
Michael Negele, Dr. — Wuppertal, Germany
Franco Pratesi, Prof. Dr. — Florence, Italy
Martin Ramsauer — Stuttgart, Germany
Chris Ravilious — Eastbourne, UK
Maria Carmen Romeo Pérez, Prof. Dr. — Madrid, Spain
Alessandro Sanvito — Mailand, Italy
Ulrich Schädler, PD Dr. — La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Dieter Schlingloff, Prof. Dr. — München, Germany
Lothar Schmid, GM — Bamberg, Germany
Siegfried Schönle — Kassel, Germany
Jurgen Stigter, Dr. — Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thomas H. Thomsen, Dr. — Königstein/Taunus, Germany
Fred R. van der Vliet, Mr. — Den Haag, Netherlands
Friedrich Wolfenter — Stuttgart, Germany
Leonard Zehr — Toronto, Canada
J. Ken MacDonald — Toronto, Canada
This pdf-file
contains a table of contents with all titles.
New reading matter online for our Italian speaking chess friends:
Our member Alessandro Sanvito has written a short treatise
on the history of chess for an important library at Rome, the Biblioteca
CASANATENSE. This treatise has also been
presented online – here the direct link to the 5-page article Brevi
cenni sull'universo ovvero La millenaria storia degli scacchi.
The library has added some illustrations as well as a bibliography of
chess books from the library’s stock (with several scarce and important
works).
A new publication in the field of correspondence chess:
Carlo Alberto Pagni: Le partite per corrispondenza
di Paul Keres [Correspondence Chess Games of Paul Keres]
Scacchi e Scienze Applicate, Venezia, 2008.
81 pages, hardback, large format A4
The book contains: all available correspondence games played by Paul Keres
1931-1938 and 1951-1961 [134 games]; results and cross tables of all correspondence
tournaments Keres took part, matches and Olympiads; most of the games
with comments by Paul Keres; figurine notation.
Price: 25 Euro [postage for registered mail included]
To order a copy of the book please contact:
Carlo A.Pagni carloalberto.pagni@fastwebnet.it
or
Romano Bellucci romanobellucci@libero.it
Two
Czech chess historians,
Zdenek Závodný and Jan Kalendovský
(the latter has just joined the KWA) have written a tournament book on
Prague 1908, further information (in Czech) and illustrations at http://home.karneval.cz/...
as well as in Karel Mokry's online bookshop;
an additional article in Englisch: Centennial
Anniversary of Prague Tournament.
Please pay also attention to Z. Závodný's new web
page with quite a lot of historical pictures and some video films.
Our
member
Tony Gillam has "struck" again - 5 new publications by "The
Chess Player, Nottingham" are now available in chess bookshops. We
only give a short list here:
Anthony J. Gillam:
Second Kolisch Memorial Tournament, Vienna 1899/1900
(RUTM #62)
ISBN: 1-901034-53-7
47 p., paperback; price: 13.95 €
London July 1886
(RUTM #64)
ISBN: 1-901034-56-2
108 p., paperback; price: 19.95 €
Plymouth 1938 and Bournemouth 1939
(RUTM #65)
ISBN: 1-901034-57-4
74 p., paperback; price: 15.75 €
London Feb/Mar 1886 and Nottingham 1886
(RUTM #66)
ISBN: 1-901034-58-6
59 p., paperback; price: 14.95 €
London March 1892 - London March/April 1892 - Belfast 1892
(RUTM #67)
ISBN: 1-901034-59-8
74 p., paperback; price: 13.95 €
Alessandro
Sanvito has written a new book about old chess manuscripts: Scacchi
manoscritti (120 p.; price: 22.-- €) has been published
by Caissa
Italia editore where you will find further details.
A
new Correspondence Chess Database on CD Ultracorr 2 has
been announced by Tim Harding for June/July 2008 which will only be produced
if at least 60 advance orders will be received by end of May. The advance
price is 32 Euro. Orders can be made via his web site, here the direct
link
to the order page.
Moreover
a new book on olympiads has been announced by Mario Tal,
you will find more details (in English / German) in this pdf-file!
As number 9 of Dr Hans Ellinger's series "Tübinger Beiträge
zum Thema Schach" a reprint of the Lasker drama Vom Menschen
die Geschichte [The History of Man] has just been published,
you will learn all essential things from this flyer
which also contains an order slip (in German; pdf-file).
Chess
and Applied Sciences
(An International Review)
© 2007 by Antonietta Carminati
ISSN: 0392-0127, 112 p., large format |
Romano
Bellucci (Venice) has presented a new issue of his periodical
Scacchi e Scienze Applicate [Vol. 24, Fasc. 26, 2006 (2007)].
This time again it contains several contributions from the pen of
KWA members: Carlo Alberto Pagni [on CC tournaments
organized during the first half of the 20th century by non specialized
magazines]; Alessandro Sanvito [On the tracks of
the Bonus Socius; Historical Chess Abstracts (column)]; Santo
Daniele Spina [Bio-bibliographic index of chess players active
in Sicily 1970-1974 (54 p.!)]; Lawrence Totaro [about
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel prize in physiology 1906); Sigmund
Freud and Chess].
Artistic chess (studies, problems) is well represented too in this
delightful magazine. |
Last
year already the Aboca Museum in Sansepolcro, Italy published in a luxurious
edition a chess historical work of / on Luca Pacioli, a mathematician
from the Renaissance. It is a facsimile edition of "De Ludo Scachorum",
a manuscript written about 1500 by Pacioli which was not found until the
end of 2006 and which contained games played both according to the old
medieval rules and in the new "a la rabiosa" way. The reprint
has a cover made of goatskin and is inserted in a valuable oak case. An
accompanying essay is offered together with the reprint: "Luca Pacioli’s
Chess. Renaissance Evolution of a Mathematical Game" (in Italian)
where our member Alessandro Sanvito has contributed to the comments of
the 114 games. The latter points to the fact that the Ken Whyld Association
has been mentioned in this important book.
Altogether this is delivered in a slip case, also shown on the museum's
homepage where you will find further details on and illustrations
of the works. The following conditions apply to purchase:
- The museum will give KWA members a generous 20% discount on the
normal price (2,800.- Euro)
- No shipping charges
- Shipping directly to the address of the member
- Payment by swift bank transfer
- Orders have to be forwarded by the KWA. (Members who intend to buy
are requested to send their order to me binnewirtz@arcor.de,
including their
postal address. I will forward the orders to the museum afterwards.)
You may also receive the above mentioned essay separately, the purchase
price given here is 115.- Euro.
Below the leaflet on the publication as pdf-file as well as some scans
from last year’s exhibition booklet [Pics 1-9] (texts in Italian/English).
[You can switch to the large pictures and back to the preview pictures
respectively by simple mouse clicks.]
Leaflet
 (780 KB)
Pictures and texts by kind permission of the Aboca
Museum.
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Recently
(5 March 2008) a full-page article has been published in the Italian national
newspaper La Repubblica on the possibility, that the
chess drawings (diagrams) in the Pacioli manuscript were made by Leonardo
da Vinci:
La mano di Leonardo ...
In this connection an additional "story from BBC News":
'Da
Vinci link' to chess drawings by
Christian Fraser (26/02/2008)
A further online article on this subject appeared in International
Herald Tribune (Europe) Experts
link Leonardo da Vinci to chess puzzles in long-lost Renaissance treatise
(14/03/2008).
But there are also serious doubts, see Historical
Stalemate ... by Dylan Loeb McClain (The New York Times, 14 April
2008).
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