April 18th

Edouard Pape (18-04-1870 - 06-03-1949) French composer

Edouard Pape on the Eiffel Tower
American Chess Bulletin, sept. 1921
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Edouard Pape composed more than 2000 problems, most of them twomovers in the "Good Companions" style - he was vice-president of the Good Companions. He wrote a chess-themed novel "La variante F.VIII du Gambit Camulogène". The Pape theme requests the double en-passant capture of the same white pawn.

Pape, Edouard
Good Companion, 1917
1^st Prize

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1.Ra1! ZZ

1...d3 2.Rxf5#
1...h3 2.Qg3#
1...Sf8 2.Bxf6#
1...Bc2/Bd3/Be4 2.Rg1#
1...Ba2 2.Rg1#/Rxf5#
1...bxa1=~ 2.Qc1#
1...Qe5/Qd5/Qc5/Qxb5 2.Sh3#