Important dates in 2008
 14. Oktober
2008
Bonhams Auction Fine Chess Sets &
Games in London.
Closing date for entries is Monday, 1 September
2008.
Additional information in the following letter:
Unfortunately the
formerly announced event The Milky Way -
International Chess Festival in Selfoss, Iceland
- planned for October
2008, had to be cancelled. We hope for the future which maybe
will give us
once again an invitation to Iceland.
14-31
October 2008
Chess World Championship Anand - Kramnik
in Bonn, Germany
- a possible play-off on 2/11/2008
Venue is the Bundeskunsthalle - unfortunately
there is a high admission
price (day ticket 35.- Euro, already to buy in advance).
Official page: www.uep-worldchess.com/
On 15/10/2008 (2nd game) Michael Negele
will probably have a panel
conversation with Helmut Pfleger
about the "Pleasure of Thinking" - the
second chess world champion Emanuel Lasker.
The Emanuel Lasker Society plans a visit to Bonn
from 16 to 19 October,
though there is an event of the CCI Germany
in Brunswick at the same
time (17 to 19 October).
So you are spoilt for choice!
Please address enquiries about the first event
to
info@lasker-gesellschaft.de,
please contact directly a CCI member from
our group for the second.
7 November
2008
5 Years of Ken Whyld Association - A Special
Event of the KWA in
Brunswick
On Friday afternoon, 3 pm the Klittich family has invited
to a ceremony
"5 Years of KWA".
Apart from a preview of the 54th auction on 28/29
November 2008 (see below) and the hospitable
catering a chess gem
is planned with the help of our Californian member, IM
John Donaldson
who had already pleased us with a lecture in La
Tour-de-Peilz.
Continuation of the journey to Dresden on Saturday morning,
8/11/2008.
8-11
November 2008
General Meeting of the KWA in Dresden, Germany
Start of the meeting on 2 pm at the Schillergarten,
a restaurant
situated directly at the Blaue
Wunder - this famous Elbe bridge connects
the two Dresden districts Blasewitz and Loschwitz.
Blasewitz
is a marvellous exclusive residential area where also the
Chess
House Mädler is situated, we plan to organize our traditional book
market there.
Monika Mädler has already sent us a List
of for the most part inexpensive
lodgings (guesthouses, holiday flats/vacation apartments
and hotels).
An excursion to Wrocław
(Poland)
is planned from Monday, 10/11 to
Tuesday, 11/11/2008.
Further details of our general meeting in this pdf-file.
You will find a provisional list of the participants
in our member section,
as pdf-file
as well.
12-25
November 2008
Chess Olympiad in Dresden
Opening ceremony on Wednesday evening (12/11/2008).
http://schacholympiade.org/...
28-29
November 2008
54th (Sale by) Auction of the Antiquarian Bookshop
A. Klittich-Pfankuch, Brunswick
Sale
by Auction
Contact:
Kleine Burg 12 · P.O. Box 1133 · D-38001
Braunschweig
phone: +49 (0)531-242880 · fax: +49 (0)531-13505
mail:
antiquariat@klittich-pfankuch.de
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