Chess Book Chats: Endpapers with a chess theme

Ralf Binnewirtz of Meerbusch, Germany, and webmaster for the Ken Whyld Association, www.kwabc.org , has sent details of further chess books with pictorial endpapers.

Chronik des Düsseldorfer Schachvereins 1854 by E. Hahnen, F.-K. Hebeker, E. Noldus, first edition of 100 numbered copies, Düsseldorf, April 2006.

Front cover

The front and rear endpapers show an engraving of a blindfold simultaneous exhibition by Louis Paulsen, during the Chess Congress at Düsseldorf in 1862, held at the Geisler'sche Rittersaal, Schadowstraẞe. The engraving is based on a drawing by the Düsseldorf artist Gustav Süs.

Endpapers

Olympiad United! Dresden 2008 by Harald Fietz, Josip Asik, Anna Burtasova, published by Schach Wissen, Berlin 2009.


Front cover

Rear cover

The front and rear endpapers show scenes from the Chess Olympiad held in Dresden in 2008.

Front endpapers


Rear endpapers

Dreiklang by Alois Johandl, Klaus Wenda, Friedrich Chlubna, published by Friedrich Chlubna, Vienna 2001.


Front cover

The endpapers show (from left) Klaus Wenda, Friedrich Chlubna and Alois Johandl.


Endpapers (front and rear)

Chess Problem Spectrum: Selected Compositions by John Rice by John Rice, published by Bernd Ellinghoven, Aachen 2003. Editions feenschach-phénix Volume 9.

Front cover

The endpapers show two different views of John Rice at the composition board.

Front endpapers

Rear endpapers

Eines Reverends Einfall, der Geschichte machte: A Cleric's Idea, which made History, by Herbert Grasemann, published by Bernd Ellinghoven, Aachen 2014. Editions feenschach-phénix Volume 12.

Front cover

The caption for the front endpapers is as follows: `The photo from the Halumbirek estate was taken in summer 1957 in Matrei/Tirol. Stefan Schneider and Herbert Grasemann (right) went to see Josef Halumbirek (left) at his holiday home´.