Saturday, January 14, 2012

January 14th

Henry Wald Bettmann (14-01-1868 - 05-12-1935) American composer


Henry Wald Bettmann
[Source: The Chess Problem, H.G.M. Weenink ; scan by M. McDowell]




Bettmann, Henry Wald
Babson Task TT, 1926
1st Prize


s#3 15 + 5
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Лазарь Борисович Залкинд (14-01-1886 - 25-06-1945) Russian composer (Lazar Borisovitch Zalkind)


Lazar Zalkind
[Wikipedia]


Lazar Zalkind composed mostly direct mate problems but also many endgame studies and tried to apply chess problem themes to studies. He was arrested and condemned in 1930 for a supposed Menshevik plot. The liberation of prisoners was suspended during the war and he died 46 days after the end of WWII.

For more details about Zalkind's life, read Alain Pallier's article "Study tourneys from the past: Tidskrift för Schack 1910 (part two)" in EG204 April 2016.


Залкинд, Лазарь Борисович
Györi Sakk-kör, 1913
2nd Prize

#3  7 + 11
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Залкинд, Лазарь Борисович
Шахматы (Грекова) 1929 (390)
1st Prize


+ 8 + 5
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Залкинд, Лазарь Борисович
«64» 1928 (333)
4th Prize

=  5 + 3
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Eugen Rusenescu (14-01-1921 - 10-04-1990) Romanian composer


Rusenescu, Eugen
Themes 64, 1964
3rd Prize


#2* vvvv 12 + 3
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Nicolae Pripoae (14-01-1939 - 2007) Romanian solver and composer


Pripoae, Nicolae
Quartz, 1998 (168/10)
h#2.52.1.1.1.1
KoeKo
c6, d3: Nightrider
b) wNd3->c7		 3 + 1
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Boris Tummes (14-01-1969) German solver, cookfinder and occasional composer



Neef, Wilfried
Tummes, Boris
Quick Composing Tourney, Pula 2000

h#2 8 + 9
b)wBa6->c2
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Semion Shifrin (14-01-1936) Israeli composer



Shifrin, Semjon
Wola Gulowska, 1997
2nd Prize


#2 7 + 5
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Marcel Lamare (14-01-1856 – 24-11-1937) French composer

Marcel Lamare was also known as “Amateur de l'Ex-U.A.A.A.R.”. His obituary can be found in “La Stratégie” décembre 1937, for which he was a regular contributor. Alain Pallier wrote an article about Marcel Lamare’s remarkable collection of 12,000 endgame studies in EG 121 pg 870-871. In this article he estimated:
“Taking into account the identified lacunae, it may not be over-optimistic to conjecture that Lamare's 12,000 form 80% of the cumulative world production of studies by the year 1937.”



Lamare, Marcel
La Stratégie, 1918 (462)

+  6 + 4
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Emil Richter (14-01-1894 – 16-03-1971) Czech composer

Emil Richter composed about 220 studies but also problems (direct and selfmates). He was a powerful chess player (Czech champion in 1948). His obituary was published in Šachové umění, May 1971.


Richter, Emil
Morgenzeitung, 1928
Honorable Mention

+  5 + 5
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Bernhard Rehm (14-01-1899 – 26-01-1971) German composer


Bernhard Rehm
[feenschach 10/1972]




Bernhard Rehm composed about 1200-1500 problems in all genres, as was stated in his obituary by W. Karsch in this issue of feenschach. 60 of his problems, many of them fairies, can be found in the feenschach obituary.

The Bernhard-Rehm-theme is the following: in a Maximummer, the longest move is determined because apparently longer (or equally long) ones are illegal self checks due to the specific fairy condition.



Rehm, Bernhard
Die Schwalbe, 1955
1st Prize

s#3*Maximummer 5 + 4
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Rehm, Bernhard
Feenschach, 1956

h#2*Grasshopper h4 5 + 2
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4 comments:

  1. Steven DowdJanuary 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM

    An interesting simul game of Tummes' versus Karpov:

    http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1553523

    He loses, but no differently than Karpov has ground up many a grandmasters ...

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  2. EricJanuary 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    Thanks for the link! Karpov wonderfully plays such endgames (I lost a R+S vs Q endgame against him in a simul more than 20 years ago).

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  3. UnknownFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM

    Was Semion Shifrin born in 1936, or 1956?
    I find contradictory info online.

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    1. EricFebruary 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM

      In 1936 according to http://www.franziska-iseli.ch/cgi/twiki/bin/view/PCCC/ComposersNamesInVariousAlphabetsS
      (therefore, the date has been corrected above).
      You can see him on a picture here: http://www.pazeinat.com/chess_problem_composition/chess-art/am2011/am2011.htm

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