German Chess Collector's Meeting from June 19th to 21st, 2009 in Naumburg, Germany

February 12th, 2009

 Dear Members and Friends of CCI,

 Our last meeting in Braunschweig, the town of Henry the Lion and Gustavus Selenus, was a great success with numerous attendants from Germany and abroad. There we decided to accept the kind invitation of our member Jens-Frieder Mükke to Naumburg. All CCI Members and Friends are welcome.

The Naumburg Cathedral not only offers the world famous sculpture of "Uta" but also the well known "Chess playing apes" that crown one of the columns in the Cathedral. We are thankful to the Museum "Hohe Lilie" for arranging a special chess exhibition to coincide with our meeting.

Following the suggestion of various members, this year we will have a chess market. If you wish to bring chess items for sale or exchange please inform us in order to arrange for sufficient space.

For us this is a good opportunity to invite you to join us for a chess weekend in Naumburg from June 19th to 21st, 2009.

Enclosed you will find the program together with some material about the town of Naumburg including a city map, directions, a hotel broshure and  an informative text introducing you to the town and the region. .

We ask you to make your own hotel reservations using the key word "Chess Collectors".

 Hotel "Zur Alten Schmiede"
Lindenring 36-37, D-06618 Naumburg
telephone +49 3445 2436-0, fax +49 3445 2436-66
email:   info@hotel-zur-alten-schmiede.de 

  Our special rates per night, including breakfast are: Single room € 59.00, double room € 85.00. A contingent of rooms will be held for us up to April 4th, 2009. Parking space is available.

 In order to ensure a smooth and uncomplicated meeting we have negotiated special rates with the museums and restaurants. Thus we have combined the main costs in a participation fee of EUR 65.00 per person that includes:

- all entry fees and guided tours on June 20th and 21st, 2009
- lunch on June 20th, 2009
- beverages during the coffee break
- dinner on June 20th, 2009, including accompanying drinks.

 We kindly ask you to transfer this sum beforehand to the following CCI-account . The payment also serves as your registration.

Chess Collectors International

Deutsche Bank
Account nummer 4712055 00
Bank code 500 700 24

 For international transfers: 
IBAN:  DE06500700240471205500
BIC:    DEUTDEDBFRA

 Should anyone prefer to pay the fee in cash at the meeting, please notify us to register.

 The meeting place on Friday, June19th, 2009 starting from 6.00 pm is the conference hotel "Zur Alten Schmiede". Here we can eat à la carte, please note that this meal is not included in the participation fee.

The presentation of papers will start Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 9.15 a.m. in the conference room of the hotel.

We hope that you will find the program attractive and we look forward to meeting many of you in Naumburg.

Sincerely yours,

 Thomas H. Thomsen                                      Jens-Frieder Mükke

telephone +49 6174 4222                               telephone +49 3445 703290

email dr-thomsen@t-online.de                        email jfmue@gmx.de

More information is available at www.naumburg-tourismus.de

 

PROGRAM OF ITALIAN-FRENCH

CHESS COLLECTORS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

(Seventh Italian - Second French)

CATANIA, Sicily

Friday, 16 - Sunday, 18 October 2009

Friday, October 16

Transfer by taxi (€ 22) or bus Alibus AMT every 20 minutes (€ 1) from Catania-Fontanarossa Airport.

Accommodation in Hotel UNA Palace (4 stars) in the historical centre of the town.

Via Etnea 218, 95131 Catania
CT, Tel. +39 095 25 05 111; fax +39 095 25 05 112;

E-mail una.palace@unahotels.it; www.unahotels.it.

Corporate rates for the congress (reservation directly to the hotel until June 30th, 2009):

Single room € 105, double room € 113 per night.

Executive double rooms are available, € 183, and suites, € 221.

Breakfast inclusive price. Fitness and Turkish bath free.

6,30 p.m.	Registration.
8 p.m.	Transfer on foot (5 minutes) to Restaurant "Ambasciata del mare", Cathedral square, for a lunch fish-based (with possibility of alternative).
	Welcome of the CCI Italian President Rodolfo Pozzi,
	French Patrice Plain and International Thomas Thomsen. Return on foot to the hotel.

 

Saturday, October 17

8,30 a.m.	Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
9 a.m.	Galatea Room of the hotel.
	Lectures: Massimiliano De Angelis: "Some Italian non figurative chess sets from 18th and 19th Century. Part two". Roberto Cassano: "Chessmen of Museum of Albano, Italy"; "The room of the chessboards in Palace of Popes in Anagni, Italy" Rodolfo Pozzi: "Bas-reliefs of 12th century chess games at Angkor in Cambodia".
	Coffee break.
	Patrice Plain: "The Mediterranean chess sets"
	Santo Spina: "Chess in Catania and province in late 19th century". (Two other lectures are expected).
1 p.m.	Transfer on foot (5 minutes) to Pastry Shop Savia, in the historical centre, for a Sicilian speciality-based lunch (rice croquettes, cannolos, and so on).
3 p.m.	City tour: Roman amphitheatre, cathedral, fountain of elephant, Crociferi road. Guide of Italian and English language.
8 p.m.	Friendship dinner in the Roof Garden of the hotel.

Sunday, October 18

8,30 a.m.	Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
9,30 a.m.	Departure by private minibus to "Le Ciminiere", to watch the "Show of Puppets". The "Opera dei Pupi" is a Sicilian Puppet Theatre officially recognized by UNESCO, May 18, 2001, like "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". The Theatrical Company "Il Paladino", directed by Salvo Mangano, will represent "Angelica in Paris" (about 1 hour) and "The tragic history of the baroness Macalda Scaletta, the first Sicilian chess-player", short scenario chess-subjet expressly arranged by Carmelo Coco as present to the members of congress.
12 a.m.	Visit of "Museo dello Sbarco": it documents the Anglo-American "Operation Husky" of July 10, 1943.
1 p.m.	Sea finger-food buffet and white wine, in front to black lava beach.
	Little walk to the fisher village.
1,45 p.m.	Return by private minibus to the hotel.
2 to 7 p.m.	Etna Room of the hotel.
	Exhibitions: "Italian, American and French comics chess subject" (Carmelo Coco collection). "Chess, ladies and gentlemen – Kings, Noblemen and shield bearers" inspired to literary and theatrical works, texts of Carmelo Coco, drawings of Noir (Carmelo Coco collection). "Chess in Catania and province in late 19th century": iconographic review about Sicilian chess-players (Santo Spina collection). "The tragic history of the baroness Macalda Scaletta, the first Sicilian chess- player", in dialectal verses of Carmelo Coco and drawings of Noir. "Sicilian literature and chess": from ancient Sicilian-dialect verses on chess to 20th century literature. Exhibition of chess sets and books of various epochs from the whole world.
8 p.m.	Good bye dinner at the "Trattoria dei Conti" (historical centre, 10 minutes on foot).
	Return on foot to the hotel.

Monday, October 19

8,30 a.m.	Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
9,30 a.m.	Departure of Sicily tour by our private bus.

Registration fee: € 230, including all written in program (excluded only hotel and airport transfer) to deposit by June 30, 2009, on the account 10777 of UBI Banco di Brescia, Varese 3, opened in the name of Gianfelice Ferlito and Rodolfo Pozzi, IBAN IT73O 03500 10800 0000000 10777.

Fee of tour is payable on the same account, by June 30, 2009.

General Information: Rodolfo Pozzi rodolpozzi@gmail.com
Local Information: Carmelo Coco comi44@tin.it