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lil  ·  2909 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: Who Would You Like to Talk to and What About?

    The café was often referred to as the "Chess school" (Die Schachhochschule) because of the presence of many chess players who used the first floor for their games.
Wow - I'd love to visit there as well. My grandfather played chess with Trotsky in Switzerland between the wars - or so I was told - but maybe they first hung out in Vienna.

How fabulous that you have letters from you mother's mother. What language are they written in?