DESCRIPTION

Living Chess in Prague 1907

in the book on the

5th Sokol gymnastic Festival

Scheiner, Josef, and others: Paty slet vsesokolsky poradany v Praze Ceskou Obci Sokolskou ve dnech 28. – 30. cervna a 1. cervence 1907. Praha, published by Ceska Obec Sokolska, (1908). Original cloth, with no dust jacket as issued. 332, XIII, (3) pages, + 20 unpaginated pages with photos and illustrations. Also, many photos in text. Size 30 x 23 cm. 1720 grams. In Czech. Soukup-; LN-; CPL; Mo 201.

Good plus: front cover somewhat stained. Small tear at the bottom of spine. Light edgewear, light general wear. Internally clean with no writings.

This is a heavy oversized commemorative book that is completely devoted to the 5th Sokol Festival held in Prague in 28-30 June and 1 July 1907. One part of the festival was the living chess game showing the battle between troops of Jan Zizka of Trotsnov and Kaiser Zikmund from 8 January 1422. The aticles connected with the living chess game are written by Augustin Ocenasek and can be found on pages 24-41 and 303-304.

The living game was one of the biggest living performances ever (if not the biggest one):

the chess board measured more than 5,000 square metres (one square was 9 x 9m)
in the game took part ca 450 gymnasts/players
the game, which was presented four times, was watched by cca 80,000 (!) spectators (in all)

Author of the game was Czech problemist Jan Dobrusky.

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Postage EUR (insurance included). Item weight 1720g
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Listing Format:	Auction
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