Konrad von Ammenhausen: Schachzabelbuch (Schaffhausen, Chronos 2010) Translated and commented by Renate Hausner, 448pp., 1 CD-ROM
Oliver Plessow: Mittelalterliche Schachzabelbücher zwischen Spielsymbolik und Wertevermittlung. Der Schachtraktat des Jacobus de Cessolis im Kontext seiner spätmittelalterlichen Rezeption. 1st ed., Münster: Rhema, 2007. 484 pp., [16] sheet: Ill.
Münchener Handschrift des Jak. v. Cessolis (1 Roch [Rook] + 8 Venden [Pawns])
Die Zerstörung von Recht und Menschlichkeit in den Konzentrations- und Strafgefangenenlagern des Emslandes 1933-1945. 3rd ed., Papenburg: DIZ Emslandlager, 1995. 72 pp.
Handwritten game instructions by a German POW in WWII
Turned wooden chessmen, US prisoner camp Bamberg, 1944 (turned by Hermann Bresser)
Chessmen carved by Gerhard Karger 1944-1947 in a Canadian prisoner camp
Chessmen sawed out, Germany, 1942
Chessmen made of alabaster. Spain, 1974
Chess table from India: wood inlaid with tortoiseshell.
W. Steinitz: The Modern Chess Instructor, Part I. New York / London, 1889
Zweig's novella "The Royal Game"
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Lewis Carroll: Alice hinter den Spiegeln. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1999. - 189 pp.
Elke Rehder: Kunst zum Schach. Bd. 1: Die Holzschnitte. Barsbüttel: Elke-Rehder-Presse, 2009. 40 pp.
Colour woodcut by Elke Rehder with regard to a passage from The Royal Game
P.R. von Bilguer (v.d. Lasa): Handbuch des Schachspiels (Leipzig, 1916)
Under the spell of chess stamps ...
Board / chessmen (on the right) made of modelling clay by Jochen Stüber for his father's birthday, 1988.
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"Schachimpressionen" by Eberhard Quinkenstein
A second painting by the artist Eberhard Quinkenstein