IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)

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IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)

Post by John Upham » Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:12 pm

BCN remembers IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)



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IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)
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Re: IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:44 pm

A very suitable name for a chess player.

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Re: IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)

Post by Craig Pritchett » Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:47 pm

Koenig's 'Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik' is an absolute gem. My current 'working copy', on loan from the 'Dr Aitken' collection in the Edinburgh chess club, is warmly inscribed (9/7/52) to his chess friend (Dr Aitken) 'in remembrance of the days in the Lud Eagle London'. I'm not even sure whether the Edinburgh club's great denizen and Aitken aficionado, Geoff Chandler, was aware of that. It's a very small world!

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Re: IM Imre (Mirko) König (2-ix-1901 9-ix-1992)

Post by John Clarke » Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:28 pm

Chess no 765-66 (March 1977) carried a nice full-page picture of König taken shortly before publication. (I'd scan and post it here, but don't want to infringe the photographer's copyright.)
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

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