 Exhibition about Ströbeck 
Exhibition about chess history and organization Won in chess competition at school: chess board from 1940 and chessmen from 1918 
Chessboard of the Great Elector
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For the new chess museum a didactic concept was developed as a project of the promotion programme Leader+. According to this concept the exhibition was arranged. With much more spacious rooms it is possible to separate different themes and to show them more clearly. The following themes are shown in the room about Ströbeck and its chess tradition: The room about organization and history of the chess game shows: The most valuable exhibit is the chessboard that the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm from Brandenburg given to the village of Ströbeck in 1651 as a reward of the inhabitants' proficiency in the royal game. On its back you find the square for the Courier-chess, a game similar to chess, coming from the middle ages. Elsewhere forgotten since a long time, in Ströbeck people played this game with 12x8 fields at least until 1885. The chessmen belonging to the Couriergame got lost after the second world war. A group of pupils built the figures according to drawings from old books. |
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