A mysterious photograph

Our Polish member Paweł Dudziński has provided a fine historical photograph, showing one lady (looking not very happy) surrounded by many gentlemen …

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Board Game Studies Journal

Wolfgang Angerstein has informed us that the Board Game Studies Journal is back – as an online magazine! You will find the first online issue = Issue 8 at http://bgsj.ludus-opuscula.org/.

Games LaBourdonnais / MacDonnell

Camilo Restrepo Castro (Colombia) has collected the data on the games of La Bourdonnais and MacDonnell not played in their well-known matches, considering all available sources. He has recorded his results in two Excel files which you may find in our member section.
Many thanks to Camilo Restrepo for providing his work!

Wijk aan Zee 2014

The tradition of our January meeting in Wijk aan Zee lives on - Guy Van Habberney has written a short report on the event, and Michael Negele has provided many photographs.

[Updated 24-01-2014: 3 photos added, provided by Andreas Saremba]

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Crumiller article

Today you may take delight in reading an article by our member Jonathan Crumiller, published in Chess Life, September 2013: "The Jonathan Crumiller Collection. A premier collector’s exhibition at the World Chess Hall of Fame." Besides the article (7.3 MB) we link the title page of the a.m. issue, both as PDF.
Courtesy of Dan Lucas, Editor of Chess Life, www.uschess.org.

Alessandro Sanvito 75!

Alessandro Sanvito with his wife Ermide
Alessandro Sanvito with his wife Ermide

Today our Italian member and friend Alessandro Sanvito (Milano) is celebrating his birthday – he can now look back on three-fourths of a century.
Dear Alessandro, we all wish you a happy and prosperous birthday and many more to come!

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Graphische Kunst

Mrs Eva Masthoff (Haltern am See) has informed me about a chess related article in the (just published) current issue of the German magazine Graphische Kunst.

Read more in our column New Chess Literature.

[Updated 23-12-2013]

Braunschweig XI 2013

Certainly this year’s November event in Braunschweig was particularly inviting: on the one hand the 10th anniversary celebration of the KWA, on the other hand a first-class chess book auction of the house Klittich-Pfankuch with numerous rare items (duplicates) from the collection of our late member Lothar Schmid.
Enjoy our large pictorial report!

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KWA Jubilee Publication

Paperback, format A5, 46 pp.,
illustrated, color print.
Limited and numbered edition of 250 copies.
With a foreword by Guy Van Habberney.

Simpson’s, Headquarters of the World is the title of an hitherto unpublished manuscript by Ken Whyld which our board has chosen to publish on the occasion of our tenth anniversary.

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Wien 1943

Our Czech member Jan Kalendovský has written a contribution about the Vienna 1943 tournament, we have linked it as PDF in our member section - see the page Lectures and Articles