Listing # 37335
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €10,00 |
| Starting bid: | €10,00 |
| # of bids: | 1 |
| Closes: | Auction is closed |
| Location: | Czech Republic |
| Started: | 2023-02-21 11:13:42 |
| Ended: | 2023-02-25 21:08:00 |
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Boletus27
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Original postcard from Adriano Chicco to Ilja Mikan sent on 30 November 1977. The postcard has chess motifs on the front and a handwritten wish with signature and a Christmas sticker on the other side. The postcard is accompanied by the original envelope in which the postcard was sent.
Adriano Chicco (Genoa, 16 February 1907 - 30 August 1990) was an Italian chess player, International Master of chess composition and historian. Author of some 540 problems in two and three-movers, of which 118 have been awarded (47 first prizes). He ran the problem section of L'Italia Scacchistica for 16 years. He was also a chess book collector and historian. His book Dizionario enciclopedico degli scacchi written together with Georgio Porreca is a chess classic and contains a brief extract on Italian chess libraries.
Ilja Mikan (12 January 1911 - 12 April 1979) was a Czech composer. International Master of composition and judge for chess composition. He composed around 1200 problems, especially selfmates and three-movers in Bohemian school. He achieved 49.5 points in the FIDE Albums, won more than 215 awards, including 28 first and 47 other prizes. He was the editor of the problem section in the Czech chess magazines Sach, Ceskoslovensky sach and Sachove umeni, ran many chess columns and wrote many articles and books - Rychle vitezstvi (1947), 13 volumes of Gallery of Czechoslovak composers (1965-75), Dobrodruzstvi 64 poli (collection of own problems, 1973) Ceske granaty 1898-1958 (works of Miroslav Havel, 1975). For many years he worked in the Czechoslovak chess organisation of composition chess and owned one of the most extensive chess libraries in Czechoslovakia.
Condition - Good to Very Good.
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