Chess Composers: September 24th

Sunday, September 23, 2012

September 24th

Ladislav Cimburek (24-09-1867 - 27-02-1915) Czech composer

Ladislav Cimburek was a Bohemian composer.
Ilja Mikan selected 108 of his problems in an issue of "Galerie československých skladatelů" (Gallery of Czech composers) which can be downloaded here.

Cimburek, Ladislav
Prachskij Kongress, 1891
1^st Prize

6 + 7

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Cimburek, Ladislav
Zlatá Praha, 22^nd Apr 1887

4 + 8

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Emmanuel Delaliau (24-09-1906 - ?) French composer

Emmanuel Delaliau composed direct mates and helpmates.

Delaliau, Emmanuel
The British Chess Magazine, 1964

7 + 12

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Steven B. Dowd (24-09-1957) American composer

Steven B. Dowd

Steven Dowd is known by American chess readers for his columns in Chess Life or on ChessCafe.com. He is also a chess composer and his favourite genres are helpmates and selfmates, but he also composes direct mates and endgame studies. He has composed many problems in collaboration with Mirko Degenkolbe or Marko Ilijoki.

Degenkolbe, Mirko & Dowd, Steven B.
Mat Plus, 2010 (39-40/1697)

s#11

7 + 2

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Dowd, Steven B. & Ylijoki, Marko
harmonie, 2006 (1293)
1^st Prize

h#11

Setplay

5 + 7

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Ján Dučák (24-09-1963) Czech-Slovak composer

Ján Dučák composes direct twomovers and is especially fond of cyclic themes. He also occasionally composes helpmates or fairy problems.

Dučák, Ján
27^th TT Chess Composition Microweb, 3^rd Mar 2010
3^rd HM