Edith Keller
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The above well known photo was taken during Jugendschachwoche (Chess Youth Week or Chess Camp held from Aug. 11-20, 1939) in the town of Fürstenwalde (55 km east of Berlin), where exceptional young German players trained briefly, but intensely with Willi Schlage, Reichstrainer des Großdeutschen Schachbundes. Schlage, a great trainer who, along with Alekhine and Bogoljubow, trained the German team for the unofficial Olympiad in Munich in 1936, is now best remembered for a 1910 game he played as black against an almost-NN named Roesch. This 15 move miniature has been forever immortalized in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey as the game between Frank Poole (Roesch) and the HAL9000 computer (Schlage):
Here is a rather long but very clever game Edith Keller won from the wonderful Fenny Heemskerk during the 1950 Women's World Championship Candidate Tournament:
Of the others in the photo, Klaus Junge and Wolfgang Unzicker are quite well known while Karl Krbavac and Rudolf Kunath have mostly faded unremarkably into history.
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