Edinburgh Chess Club is participating again in the national Doors Open Days festival on the weekend of the 28th/29th September 2024.
Chess games and demonstrations will be taking place during the day.
On display are chess sets, clocks, trophies and the historic library and archives as well as a number of collections of books and scorebooks.
Of especial interest will be manuscripts from the initial correspondence match between Edinburgh and London started exactly 200 years ago where Edinburgh won the Scots Cup on display in the club.
As you are all aware the club is selling a vast quantity of duplicate / surplus chess books and magazines. Please let any fellow chess colleagues across Edinburgh and the Lothians (and further afield!) know that the books are on sale since they are shortly going to an auction house.
A completely varied selection:
- from antique to modern;
- rare to widely available;
- in fine condition through to falling apart(!?!);
- older books in descriptive notation - newer publications algebraic;
- popular magazines such as British Chess Magazine, Chess [ Sutton Coldfield] and Scottish Chess plus unique publications such as Capital [Capatal] Chess and the "High School of Glasgow Chess Library Bulletin" and many others;
- magazines as both complete volumes (bound and/or unbound) along with many single issues!
They are on display in the analysis room and a complete list is also available online or ask for a copy to be sent.