Nimzowitsch's handwritten letter
This General Meeting is also an opportunity for our members to present documents from their collections. Claes Løfgren, for example, presented a remarkable handwritten letter from Aaron Nimzowitsch and put it into context. As you can see, part of the document is missing, and Claes explained to me that it is likely that Nimzowitsch's autograph was cut out before the letter was acquired.
Here is an extract (corrected - the game played is Nimzowitsch's) from the presentation text for the General Meeting on 13 and 14 September 2024.
After the coffee break, the Secretary-General of the Society, the Dane Claes Løfgren presented a letter from Nimzowitsch to the editor of a Danish Chess Journal. In a previous edition, Nimzowitsch criticised a questionable move in a game played by himself against a fellow Dane. When the President of the chess club, whose players had come under fire, protested against the remarks, he went so far as suggesting that the editor of the journal should exercise some scrutiny. This, in turn, triggered the grandmaster to warn against any sort of censorship in chess journals in typically Nimzo-writing style.
Claes Løfgren: No censorship, please!
The presentation as PDF file: