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Chess after shopping

Dresden, 19/05/2008

Roadshow to take off in KaufPark Nickern
Kick-off event for tour around Saxony on 29 May 2008

The as „Roadshow“ entitled tour of the organizing office of the Chess Olympiad 2008 through various well-known Dresden shopping malls will be launched May 29. At the KaufPark Dresden Nickern the Chess Foundation GmbH will promote the great chess event of November over the duration of three days and will animate shoppers to visit the Chess Olympiad by presenting an attractive (chess) programme.



The agenda, with chess instructions, online games, Blitz tournaments, trial courses, interviews, simultan games and much more, can be downloaded here. The event will be presented by Christian Zickelbein, who is well-known as founder of the in chess circles famous school chess group Uhlenhorst Barmbek, from which later resulted the German Chess Youth (DSJ). For his extraordinary commitment regarding German chess he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2005. In addition, the chess school Meng, the “Gruen-Weiss” Dresden chess club and students of Dresden partner schools will contribute to the success of the tour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The KaufPark center management proudly advertised this exclusive event in its latest center magazine. Besides Dresden Bautzen, Chemnitz, Zwickau and Leipzig are further Stopps on the tour. In the Saxon capital itself several other malls will be places of action throughout the next months.