A
considerable number of authors, members and visitors gathered on Friday
evening, 20 November, in the Duke August Library to witness the presentation
of the new Lasker monograph and naturally to get a numbered + signed copy
of this exceptional work.
15 authors were present (Wolfgang Angerstein, Tony Gillam, Peter de Jong,
Viktor Kortschnoi, Tomasz Lissowski, Egbert Meissenburg, Susanna Poldauf,
Toni Preziuso, Joachim Rosenthal, Raj Tischbierek, Robert van de Velde
und Hans-Christian Wohlfarth) - the three editors (Richard Forster, Stefan
Hansen, Michael Negele) included - as well as Ulrich Dirr and the ELG
board with Paul Werner Wagner, Thomas Weischede and Thomas Thomsen.
Quite a lot of KWA members joined them: the four Danes Claes Løfgren,
Per Skjoldager, Knud Lysdal and Jørn
Erik Nielsen; Calle Erlandsson and Gunnar Finnlaugsson from Sweden; the
Belgians Guy Van Habberney and Henri Serruys as well as Jurgen Stigter
from the Netherlands; from Germany Günter Büsing, Bernd Ellinghoven,
Matias Jolowicz, Hans-Jürgen Fresen, Matthias Limberg, Andreas Saremba,
Bernd Schneider and Bernd Segebarth. (At the chess book auction on Saturday
also Godehard Murkisch, Wolfgang Pähtz and Bernd Schippan were spotted.)
Part of the supporting programme was a prior guided tour of the library
(for registered participants) as well as an online game against the strongest
German female player, WGM Elisabeth Pähtz, partly played parallel
to the book-signing of the authors and editors.
In the following a selection of photos is offered on this completely successful
event, just as on the subsequent official dinner in the restaurant Ratskeller
where many comrades took part.
At
the guided tour of the Duke
August Library: Bernd Schneider
and Dr. Daniel Eisermann from Berlin, one of our main proofreaders. |
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The
presentation has started:
Stefan Hansen (left) with the hefty work,
next to him Paul Werner Wagner and (sitting) our host Prof. Helwig
Schmidt-Glintzer. |
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The
impressive library provided the appropriate setting for this event. |
Sitting
in the first row:
Prof. Wolfgang Angerstein and Marion Oeben-Negele. |
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Stefan
Hansen and Prof. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, we already
know the latter from the KWA foundation ceremony 2003 at the same
place. |
Michael
Negele at the lectern,
for him there was still a little surprise in store ... |
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...
as for his great contribution to the Lasker monograph
DSB vice president Michael S. Langer (left) presented
to him the plate of honour of the German Chess Federation.
Applause and congratulations for this distinction! |
Swiss
by themselves:
Richard Forster with Viktor and Petra Kortschnoi.
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