Chess Composers: February 10th

Konrad Erlinger (10-02-1856 - 31-12-1944) Austrian composer

Konrad Erlinger published problems under the pseudonym of Konrad Erlin. He was a prolific composer, a lover of model mates and of sacrifices of white pieces, and a precursor of the Bohemian school.

Erlinger, Konrad
Good Companions, 1921
1^st Prize

8 + 7

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Erlinger, Konrad
Beobachter, 1889
1^st Prize

7 + 7

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Erlinger, Konrad
Illustriertes Familien-Journal 1888
1^st Prize

#3......7 + 7

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Otto Georg Edgar Dehler (10-02-1887 - 20-05-1948) German composer

Dehler composed many miniatures, some of them with an especially rich play

Dehler, Otto Georg Edgar
Arbeiter-Schachzeitung, Sep 1920 (419)
3^rd Prize, Kieler Arbeiter-Schachbund

5 + 1

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Dehler, Otto Georg Edgar
Ostdeutsche Morgenpost, 1923
1^st HM

6 + 6

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C. J. Taale (10-02-1890 - ?) Dutch composer

C.J. Taale seems to have been a mathematician. As written here, he has published in Dutch magazine Pythagoras a magic square with magic constant 260 which offers the peculiarity to be bimagic. Obviously it had to be a 8x8 square:

.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
|  3 | 50 | 55 |  6 | 48 | 29 | 28 | 41 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 45 | 32 | 25 | 44 |  2 | 51 | 54 |  7 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 22 | 39 | 34 | 19 | 57 | 12 | 13 | 64 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 60 |  9 | 16 | 61 | 23 | 38 | 35 | 18 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 40 | 21 | 20 | 33 | 11 | 58 | 63 | 14 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 10 | 59 | 62 | 15 | 37 | 24 | 17 | 36 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 49 |  4 |  5 | 56 | 30 | 47 | 42 | 27 |
.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.----.
| 31 | 46 | 43 | 26 | 52 |  1 |  8 | 53 |
^----^----^----^----^----^----^----^----^

Like Erlinger, Taale too used a pseudonym (J. de Jutter) and composed direct mates, heterodox or fairy problems.

Taale, C. J.
4739 Die Schwalbe 115, 07/1937
Dedicated to Dr. Zepler
Best #2 of the 3^rd Quarter 1937

#2		13 + 8

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Taale, C. J.
N.T.B. 1926
1^st Prize

11 + 8

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Carel Johan Robert Sammelius (10-02-1912 - 30-03-1991) Dutch composer and International Master

You can find some of his games here.
Sammelius is a great artist and it was hard to make a selection. According to Echesspedia.com [broken link] one hundred of his compositions have been published in 1988 in a book "Probleem componisten XII".

Sammelius, Carel Johan Robert
Tijdschrift vd KNSB, 1939
1^st Prize