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Tom Fürstenberg [1] Tom Fürstenberg,
a Dutch computer chess expert, retired chess and computer chess salesman, formerly representing Fidelity Electronics. With his close friend David Bronstein, Tom Fürstenberg is co-author of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice [2] [3]. Tom Fürstenberg participated at Aegon Tournaments on both sides, operating Fidelity computers [4], as well as playing the Aegon 1997 on the human side [5].
Quotes
by Tom Fürstenberg [8]:
Publications
- Tom Fürstenberg (1980). The First World Microcomputer Championship. Chess, December 1980 » WMCCC 1980 [9]
- Tom Fürstenberg (1981). 2e Micro WK Travemünde/Hamburg. Computerschaak, 11-1981 (Dutch) » WMCCC 1981 [10]
- Tom Fürstenberg (1984). Micro Chess Computers. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3
- Tom Fürstenberg (1985). Micro Chess Computers (Part 2). ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1
- Frederic Friedel (1990). Elektronischer Sekundant ein Fidelity-Computer bei der Schach-WM in New-York. Computerschach und Spiele 6/90, (German)
- David Bronstein, Tom Fürstenberg (1995). The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Cadogan Books, London. ISBN 1-85744-151-6 [11]
In 1954 I met Grandmaster Bronstein for the first time in person when he came to Amsterdam with the Soviet team to play in the Olympiad. Little could I foresee then that he would become one of my best friends and that I would write a book about him. I found the title The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, David being the Sorcerer (on the chessboard) and the reader his Apprentice. As I had never written a book before, let alone a chess book, I structured in a way that I felt would show every aspect of David Bronstein’s chess. When I asked his wife Tatiana Boleslavskaya (daughter of the famous Grandmaster Isaac Boleslavsky from Minsk, Belarus) to contribute, she wrote a chapter in the form of a moving testimonial about her husband.
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References
- ↑ Tom Furstenberg | Facebook
- ↑ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Wikipedia about the poem by Goethe
- ↑ Best chess books ever from Susan Polgar’s Chess Daily Mews and Information
- ↑ CSVN Aegon 1991 site
- ↑ CSVN Aegon 1997 site
- ↑ Computerschaak pagina 2 (Dutch) Redactie: J. ten Have and Drs. S. Kooi
- ↑ Photo from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg - David Bronstein and myself at the AEGON Human v. Computer tournament in Den Haag, 1991
- ↑ Quotes by Tom Fürstenberg from his former page skynet.be/fidelity/furstenberg
- ↑ Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- ↑ 09-1981, 2. Mikrocomputer-Schachweltmeisterschaft in Travemünde und Hamburg (pdf) hosted by Hein Veldhuis
- ↑ Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Cadogan Chess Books) from amazon.com