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June 2025
Chronicle of the chess society “Roland” Weißenfels a.d.S.
by Siegfried Schönle
[Original article in German is here. Translation with DeepL.com (free version)]
Anyone who wants to know where Weißenfels is located must turn to p. 351 of the latest local history work by the brothers Konrad and Markus Reiß. A comprehensive work of 502 pages, color print, numerous facsimiles, photos and various illustrations.
With this book, the Löberitz Chess Museum wants to make the handwritten documents accessible to a larger group of people as annotated and transcribed facsimiles and thus preserve their content more securely for posterity.
For the Löberitz Chess Museum, the minutes contain important documents for completing the chess history in Saxony-Anhalt, which is a stroke of luck. The Löberitz Chess Museum is committed to preserving the chess tradition in Central Germany.
Read more … Chronicle of the chess society “Roland” Weißenfels a.d.S.
New Capablanca and Alekhine book in Spanish
Las historias, partidas e intrigas de Capablanca y Alekhine, the new book in Spanish by Luis Fernández Siles, offers a fascinating journey into the intellectual and human rivalry between two titans of the XXᵉ century, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.
Over 400 richly documented pages, the author paints an accurate historical portrait of the turn of the century, tracing the rise of the two geniuses, their first duel and then the evolution of an unlikely relationship, combining respect, admiration and then growing enmity.
At the heart of the book are dozens of commented chess games, selected to illustrate the key moments of their confrontation on the chessboard. The author examines not only the strategies, but also the psychological tensions, the official negotiations and the off-field intrigues that punctuated their careers.
You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9BPRTDQ
In this is link you will find some info and sample pages download: https://capakhine.es/index.php/blog/238-las-historias-partidas-y-enigmas-de-capablanca-y-alekhine