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| Frank Healey [Wikipedia] |
Frank Healey is remembered for his amazing problems, compiled in "A collection of 200 chess problems" (1866) which can be downloaded and read from here.
In Healey's own words:
“Problems are indeed the poetry of chess. The same depth of imagination, the same quick perception of the beautiful, the same fecundity of invention, which we demand from the poet, are to be found, under a different form, in the humble labours of the problematist. Surely, without pressing the analogy too far, we may say that the thirty-two pieces form the alphabet of the composer, while the Chess board is the paper, and the positions finally resulting may be fairly likened to so many stanzas.”
Die Schwalbe presented one of his problems as a precursor of the Plachutta theme.
One of Healey's problems in particular spectacularly presented the clearance that was named Bristol theme, after the tourney won by the problem:
Healey, Frank
Bristol-Turnier, 1861 (1)
1st Prize
Bristol-Turnier, 1861 (1)
1st Prize
| #3 | 12 + 7 |
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This twomover is also famous:
Healey, Frank
Chess Monthly, 1885
1st Prize
Chess Monthly, 1885
1st Prize
| #2 | 10 + 9 |
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