Henry Augustus Loveday (03-08-1815 - 09-01-1848) British-Indian composer
Henry Loveday is famous for having composed and sent to Howard Stauton, the then director of the "Chess Player's Chronicle", the famous Indian problem below:
Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle, Feb 1845
The problem was cooked and the most current version is the following:
Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle (v) 1845
Show Solution1.Bh6-c1 ! ZZ
1...b6-b5 2.Rd1-d2 ZZ 2...Ke4-f4 3.Rd2-d4#
The Indian theme is composed by 1. a critical move of a white long range piece (here the Bishop) beyond a critical square (here d2) 2. the interference of this piece by another piece on the critical square, thus offering the bK a flight.
Loveday understood the importance of his idea and published another extraordinary work in 1846.
Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle, 1846
Show Solution1.Rd6-d1 ! ZZ
1...g5-g4 2.Bh6-d2 ~ 3.Bd2-a5#
This time the Bishop interferes the Rook.