AJuly 08 2010
The Independent, London, Greater London, England, Thursday, July 08, 2010
It's never a good sign when a city has more than one name, since this can only suggest that it has been the subject of conflict. Wroclaw—in German Breslau—on the Oder River; the main city in what is now south-west Poland, is certainly no exception; and over the years it has at different times been part of Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia and Germany.
In 1818, at a time when it was German, the city was the birthplace of one of the greatest players of the 19th century, Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen. Since 1992 an annual tournament has been held in Wroclaw in memory of this attacking genius—and more recently, there has also been an International Chess Festival alongside.
