NEW! Coming soon: Western Hemisphere Conference September 4 – 7, 2025 to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. For more information, including detailed programme, hotel information and registration form, please click here.
Highlights include: Visits to two museum exhibitions – one at The Historic New Orleans Collection (including a look at Paul Morphy’s own Jaques set) and one at the Beauregard-Keyes House; Lectures on chess-related topics; A simultaneous exhibition with renowned chess master and the most famous street player in the world, The Man in the Red Beret, Jude Acers; Gala dinner at Brennans Restaurant, once the home of Paul Morphy. Opportunity to enjoy a lavish New Orleans Creole meal, play chess in the Morphy Room (the room where he died), and a possible surprise guest; A Mississippi riverboat cruise with music and dinner; A chess market; Priceless opportunities to meet and connect in-person with like-minded collectors, and learn about chess topics you may never have thought of before!
October 2024 German CCI Meeting in Hohenberg a.d. Eger. The German section of CCI held a meeting from the 10th/11th to the 13th of October 2024 in Hohenberg a.d. Eger – near Selb, Germany. This included an exhibition in Hohenberg a.d. Eger « Chess and Porcellain » . Our annual meeting was held there and we attended the « finissage » of the exhibition. Invitation letter in English is here, in German here. Program can be found here in English and here in German. Travel information can be found here.
CCI International Meeting in Oxford, UK, from Wednesday May 15th until Sunday May 19th, 2024. Proposed programme can be seen here. For current Speakers’ list, click here. Regarding accomodation, booking is possible here.
2023 – CCI Germany Meeting from November 16-19, 2023 in Wernigerode, Germany.
2023 – July 6-9. CCI Western Hemisphere Meeting in St. Louis, USA. Presentations include: Can chess collecting save the world?; Collecting and researching chess literature; Vive la France : the Antique Chess Sets of Dieppe; Alcoa chess sets; cultural transfer and chess design on the European Borderlands.
2020 – Bi-annual CCI’s 19th Convention in St. Louis, USA. September 2-6, 2020. For full and updated programme down, click here.
2019 – German CCI Meeting in Ströbeck, Harz, Germany. October 3-6, 2019. –