Lasker-Day in Leverkusen

Two of the proud editors could sign a bunch of copies for our friend Bernd Schneider
Michael Negele
Two of the proud editors could sign a bunch of copies for our friend Bernd Schneider

The Bayer chessclub in Leverkusen had taken up the initiative of the German Chess Federation to celebrate a Lasker Day of Chess in autumn 2018. By chance it was also an unexpected opportunity to present Emanuel Lasker Volume I hot off the press (Article at Chess Notes)

More pictures from the event:

  • Michael Negele
    Welcome by Michael Axmann, chairman of the chess club Bayer Leverkusen
  • Michael Negele
    Michael Negele with his lecture The Sphinx Emanuel Lasker and in the Comprehension of his World
  • Michael Negele
    Michael Negele (front) and Marco Bär (right back) at the Leap-Frog Simultan on 11 boards. Result: +7, = 3, -1
  • Michael Negele
    Emanuel Lasker (in the front) and Paul List at a simultaneous exhibitions on 44 boards in Berlin, 1929
  • Michael Negele
  • Michael Negele
    Our chairman Bob van de Velde (left) back at the chessboard
  • Michael Negele
    IM Richard Forster (against Joachim Engelhart), IM Herbert Bastian and Ralf Schreiber (from right)

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