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].

  • The welcoming and the introduction were made by Paul Werner Wagner – chairman of the Emanuel Lasker Society. On the right Boris Spassky together with Helmut Pfleger.
  • Boris Spassky visiting the exhibition "Zug um Zug". Soon he will be made out and surrounded by Russian fans ...
  • Lothar Schmid was present as well, here in the company of Paul Werner Wagner in front of the entrance to the exhibition.
  • During the coffee break Jurgen Stigter was busy distributing Yuletide No.3, thus advertising the KWA – you will see there Karlheinz Podzielny sen., Jose Maria Gutierrez Dopino of CAPEA (a Spanish-German correspondence chess club) and Ralf Niederhäuser.
  • At another table Dr. Hans Ellinger (Tübingen) and Christoph Schneider (Karlsruhe) as well as (hidden) Thomas Meyer (Tübingen) and Georg Schweiger (Ebersberg-Grafing).
  • Andreas and Marie-Theres Saremba together with Susanne van Kempen.
  • Susanna Poldauf being in conversation with Dr. Helene Thiesen who did the guided tour of the exhibition.
  • Later on P.W. Wagner opened the (short) Lasker meeting with Michael Negele presenting the biography project.

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.

  • In the Sunday afternoon the official welcoming by Dr. Hans Walter Hütter, representative of the president of the "Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik".
  • Dr. Hans-Jürgen Weyer, president of the chess federation NRW, greets the large audience too.
  • A highlight of the weekend: the conversation with Boris Spassky about the subject "Chess in the Cold War". On the right the interpreter IM Dirk Poldauf.
  • Paul Werner Wagner, the presenter of the day together with a light-hearted Boris Spassky.
  • Boris Spassky, world champion 1969-1972, will celebrate his 70th birthday at the end of January, 2007
  • Boris Spassky in the following simul, at the board (in the centre) Hans-Walter Schmitt from the Chess Classics Mainz who held to a draw.
  • Stefan Böhm from Bayer Leverkusen is being greeted here, he was able to share points as well.
  • Altogether Spassky won 8 games and (generously) drew 17. According to himself he had serious problems in two games.
  • Our KWA members Hans Engberts (1/2), Andreas Saremba (0 due to his departure) and Detlef Krämer (1/2) were active in the simul.

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