Fwd: Death of Egbert Meissenburg

[ulrich schädler]

Chess history loses an important personality.

For decades, Meissenburg devoted himself with great passion to the history of chess. His self-published and distributed brochures such as the " Okkasioneller Rundbrief «  or the series « Reihe Schachforschungen » are unforgettable. They were not magnificent coffee table books, but they were all very instructive and are still worth reading. For a long time he was the driving force behind the " Initiativgruppe Königstein ", an international group of people who studied the history of chess. 

I got to know and appreciate Egbert Meissenburg as a person who was concerned with credibility, rational argumentation and sound knowledge (he was a lawyer!). Not a man of speculation or windy theories. And always tolerant of people who disagreed with him, as long as they had serious arguments. See for example "Where Did Chess Originate?: Dissenting Votes », ed. by Gerhard Josten and Egbert Meissenburg in 1998.

In 2008, a voluminous book « Festschrift Meissenburg » was published (Refordis Verlag, Vienna, in 36 copies!) with nearly 700 pages, by which numerous chess historians honoured his lifetime achievements.

I never met anyone like him. 

Ulrich Schädler

[Myron Samsin]

Agreed, in every word. Every single one. 

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