Picture Gallery:

"Chess in Wolfenbüttel"

Title Page of Duke August's Chess Book

Duke August Junior (on the right) playing chess (copperplate engraving from his chess book)

Dedication by Duke August in his chess book:
Wir, Augustus der Jüngere, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, verwahren dießes Schach-Buch, auß genehmigter Affe- ction, zum Gedechtniß, dem Neffen, unserem Lieben Besonderen, Sa- muel Beeren, sz. Mecklenbur- gischer Rath und Hofmeister Zu Schwerin: den 25. Januar 1617 Unterschrift

Moses Mendelssohn (on the left) and Johann Kaspar Lavater playing chess. Lessing is watching. (Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856)

Table for board games being located in the "Lessinghaus"

Restaurant "Zum Löwen" at about 1870 on Breite Herzogstrasse

Chess set of Duke August (Brunswick, Anton-Ulrich-Museum)