Chess at the library
Monday, June 4th, 2007
Asher likes going to our local library, the State Library of Victoria. We have another library near us, the City Library. Anyhow, the cool thing about the State Library is that it has chess boards and a large collection of chess books.
I quote in full from The Oxford Companion to Chess, pages 225-6, the entry on “libraries”:
Three outstanding collections exist in libraries open to the public. The J.G. White collection in Cleveland, Ohio, and the van der Linde-Nieijer collection in the Royal Library at the Hague are of comparable size and have no rivals. The Anderson Chess Collection in Melbourne, Australia, donated by M.V. Anderson, is probably the largest chess library in the southern hemisphere. The chess library of Grandmaster Lothar Schmid is the largest and finest in private hands, with more than 15,000 items.
This Anderson Chess Collection is housed in the State Library of Victoria, abovementioned.
