Lasker weekend in Bonn (20/21 January 2007)

Short photo report

This time the Lasker meeting of January 20-21, 2007 in Bonn was a public event prepared by the Emanuel Lasker Society in cooperation with the "Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" in connection with the exhibition "Zug um Zug - Schach - Gesellschaft - Politik" [Move after Move – Chess – Society – Politics].

Here the Powerpoint slides in pdf format:

In the late Sunday morning the event was resumed by a panel talk between Paul Werner Wagner (presenter) and the two famous grandmasters Lothar Schmid and Helmut Pfleger: the topic set in advance was "Dramatic and politically highly explosive duels over the world championship in chess from the point of view of an arbiter and of a psychologist".
The following members of our association had come to Bonn: (apart from Michael Negele and Ralf Binnewirtz) Lothar Schmid, Bernd Ellinghoven, Detlef Krämer, Jurgen Stigter, Susanna van Kempen, Bernd Schneider, Bodo Pawlik, Lothar Heider and Andreas Saremba; Hans Engberts came to take part in the simul.

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