Chess Composers: January 13th

Uri Avner (13-01-1941 - 10-06-2014) Israeli composer, Grandmaster and former President of the WFCC

Uri Avner
[© Nikola Stolev]

Avner, Uri
The Problemist, 1992
1^st Prize

s#6

10 + 11

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Ioannis Garoufalidis (13-01-1966) Greek composer

Garoufalidis, Ioannis
Problemkiste, Feb 2004 (151/6096)

s#22

4 + 2

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Enrico Paoli (13-01-1908 - 15-12-2005) - Italian composer.

Enrico Paoli
Messaggero Scacchi

Enrico Paoli was also an International Master o.t.b. and was renowned as the organizer of the Reggio Emilia tournament.

Paoli, Enrico
Van Reek-50 JT, 1995
Commendation

2 + 6

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Joseph Kentigern Heydon (13-01-1884 - 09-1947) Australian composer

Heydon, Joseph Kentigern
Good Companion, Nov 1920
1^st Prize

10 + 7

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Zacharias Fjellström (13-01-1906 - 17-04-1979) Swedish composer

Zacharias Fjellström
[Thanks to Александр Никитин]

Fjellström, Zacharias
British Chess Federation, 1953
1^st Prize

#2*

9 + 8

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Albert Fischli (13-01-1947) Swiss composer

Albert Fischli, 1969
[SSZ 1969, page 37]

Albert Fischli composes moremovers and studies, with an interest in tempo manoeuvres and switchbacks.

Fischli, Albert
Basler Nachrichten 1968

7 + 2

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Пётр Степанович Муссури (13-01-1911 - 01-08-1937) Greek-Soviet composer (Pyotr Stepanovich Mussuri)

Pyotr Mussuri
[Задачи и этюды no.7, 1929]

Pyotr Mussuri (Moussouris) was a Greek citizen born in Baku and lived in Moscow. He worked as a free-lance journalist for the Russian chess magazine "64". He covered the famous 1936 Nottingham tournament for the magazine. In 1937 during the Great Purge he was wrongfully accused and executed.
The reader can discover more details about Mussuri's short life in this pdf document (in Russian).

He composed direct mates and selfmates and was also a judge and organizer.

Муссури, Пётр Степанович
1^st Prize, «64», 15 Oct 1935