Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (10)
08.10.2008
– Our quiz invites readers to identify ten chess figures, and the good news for entrants is that all the pictures can be found in Chess
Notes. The main prize is a copy of Richard Forster’s monumental book
Amos Burn. In Bonn next week, it will be personally inscribed to the
winner by both Anand and Kramnik, as well as Forster himself. An unmissable opportunity for all readers.
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Chess Explorations (10)
By Edward Winter
Readers are asked to identify the ten chess figures below. All the pictures
have been featured in Chess
Notes over the past four years (available on-line, as indicated on our Archives
page).
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
Picture 6
Picture 7
Picture 8
Picture 9
Picture 10
The reader who sends the best entry will receive a copy of Amos
Burn A Chess Biography by Richard Forster, a huge hardback published
by McFarland & Company,
Inc. Nearly 1,000 pages, large format, with almost 800 annotated games and
over 200 photographs and other illustrations.
The space awaits... The book will be inscribed in Bonn by Anand, Kramnik
and Forster to a ChessBase reader.
Amos Burn
Two consolation prizes are also offered: Fritz 11, one signed by Anand and
the other by Kramnik. The two winners will be picked at random from all reasonable
entries received.
The deadline for entering the quiz is Monday, 13 October 2008, and each entry
must use the form indicated, which requires the contestant’s full name
and postal address. When the winners are announced we shall add a few comments
about the ten chess figures featured in the quiz.
Final note: in common with all Chess Notes material, the photographs in the
present article are not available for reproduction elsewhere.
Submit your solutions
All articles by Edward
Winter
 Edward
Winter is the editor of Chess
Notes, which was founded in January 1982 as "a forum for aficionados
to discuss all matters relating to the Royal Pastime". Since then about
5,800 items have been published, and the series has resulted in four books by
Winter: Chess
Explorations (1996), Kings,
Commoners and Knaves (1999), A
Chess Omnibus (2003) and Chess
Facts and Fables (2006). He is also the author of a monograph
on Capablanca (1989).
Chess Notes is well known for its historical research, and anyone browsing
in its archives
will find a wealth of unknown games, accounts of historical mysteries, quotes
and quips, and other material of every kind imaginable. Correspondents from
around the world contribute items, and they include not only "ordinary
readers" but also some eminent historians – and, indeed, some eminent
masters. Chess Notes is located at the Chess
History Center. Signed copies of Edward Winter's publications are
currently available.
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