Karen Agura died peacefully on July 13, 2021, at home in Arlington, Texas. Published on Wed, 07/21/2021 - 4:09pm
Karen Agura died peacefully on July 13, 2021, at home in Arlington, Texas.
Karen was born April 6, 1925, in Sofia, Bulgaria, daughter of Xenia Tontcheva Haller and Jakob Kurt Haller. Her parents had moved to Bulgaria in 1921, to escape the difficult inflationary conditions in Germany during the early 1920’s and to establish a business. The family returned to Germany in 1928 and settled in Stuttgart, Germany. Karen received all her education there and graduated from Königin Katharina Stift in 1941. She entered trade school, a mandatory requirement to enter the Fashion Academy in Munich. She planned to specialize in business and dress and pattern making and received her Master Letter. Unfortunately, because of World War II she never fulfilled her dream of attend
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When Wim Andriessen founded
Schaakbulletin in 1968 and shortly thereafter gave up his secure job at the college, many were quick to call him insane. Berry Withuis, a veteran of chess journalism, openly mocked him: If you want to throw away your money in the Netherlands, you either waste it on women or create a chess magazine. After all, the local chess community was way too small to allow for a second publication to survive beside
Schakend Nederland, the official magazine of the local chess association.
And indeed,
Schaakbulletin never really made any profit. However, Andriessen s advertising in the magazine helped him to sell a considerable numbers of chess books, which he also published. He later advertised his newly established chess store and mail-order products, as well. In 1984,
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