The internationally renowned chess collector, bibliographer and chess historian Egbert Meissenburg died on 29 December last year. For more than 50 years he published numerous essays and writings on chess history. In an obituary on the website of the German Chess Federation Siegfried Schönle pays tribute to Meissenburg. | Photo: Egbert Meissenburg 2007 (Siegfried Schönle)
Recently, the Emanuel Lasker Society and the Excelsior Verlag published the third and final volume of their huge biography of Emanuel Lasker, mathematician, philosopher, writer, and World Champion from 1894 to 1921. Richard Forster, Michael Negele and Raj Tischbierek edited the three volumes. Like its predecessors, the third sheds light on many aspects of Lasker's personality and his wide ranging intellectual interests, and it is a beautiful, carefully designed book well worth reading.