Chess Composers: February 24th

Georges Emile Barbier (24-02-1844 - 16-12-1895) French composer

Barbier became famous for the 1895 endgame study which was initially published as a draw study, until Rev. Saavedra found the winning promotion.

Saavedra, Fernando & Barbier, Georges Emile
Glasgow Weekly Citizen, 1895

2 + 2

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For a quick look at the history of this endgame, you may look at the Wikipedia webpage. For further details and a reproduction of Barbier's column in the Weekly Citizen, browse Tim Krabbé's website.

Consider solving the problem below, for the fun of it:

Barbier, Georges Emile
Brooklyn Standard Union 27/01/1894

-1 & #1

3 + 2

White retracts one moves and mates in one.
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Ralph Herbert Bridgewater (24-02-1874 - 12-1948) British composer

Bridgewater obtained a few prizes for some mutate twomovers, but we have not selected a mutate:

Bridgewater, Ralph Herbert
Daily News, 1926
Prize

#2*

11 + 5

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Liss Olof Karlsson (24-02-1896 - 11-01-1971) Swedish composer

Liss Olof Karlsson
[Thanks to Александр Никитин ]

Liss Olof Karlsson was a multivalent composer. You may pick any of this miniature twomover with Y-flight of the black King, of this helpmate in 3 with Allumwandlung, of this grotesque selfmate. The study below has a clear solution:

Karlsson, Liss Olof
Tidskrift för Schack, 1946 (67)
2^nd Prize

5 + 3

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Zoltán Zilahi (24-02-1903 - 10-05-1971) Hungarian composer

Zoltán Zilahi
[Kartothek L-Z page 103]

Zoltán Zilahi
[magyarsakkszerzok]

Zilahi left a theme bearing his name: in each of two phases, the mating unit of one phase is captured in the other phase. The typical example is this problem.
The Zilahi theme has been thoroughly exploited in the helpmate genre ever since, but Zilahi composed many successful twomovers, such as this one:

Zilahi, Zoltán
Gavrilov MT, 1948
1^st Prize

9 + 11

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Aleksander Goldstein (24-02-1911 - 28-09-1988) Polish composer

Aleksander Goldstein composed in many genres with elegance. A typical example in three moves:

Goldstein, Aleksander
«64» 1940
3^rd Prize

8 + 4

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Rudolf Forsberg (24-02-1917 - ?) Swedish composer

Henry Olof Axel Forsberg was with the Forsberg twins. Rudolf also composed special problems such as this threemover:

Forsberg, Rudolf
Cheylan-50 JT, 1989
HM

12 + 11

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Юрий А. Павлов (24-02-1927 - 2001) Russian composer (Yuri A. Pavlov)

Павлов, Юрий А.
Ukraine
1^st Place

8 + 8

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Augusto Visintin (24-02-1952) Italian composer

Visintin, Augusto
Sinfonie Scacchistiche, 1965
3^rd Prize, 1965-1967

h#2

2 solutions

5 + 6

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Эдуард Францевич Куделич (24-02-1954) Russian-Ukrainian composer (Eduard Frantsevich Kudelich)

Eduard Kudelich is an endgame study composer.

Куделич, Эдуард Францевич
Шахматная поэзия 2001 (1096)
2^nd Honorable Mention

4 + 5

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Александр Николаевич Мельничук (24-02-1958) Russian composer (Aleksandr Nikolaevich Melnichuk)

Aleksandr Melnichuk

Aleksandr Melnichuk has composed mostly direct mates (#3 and #4).

Мельничук, Александр Николаевич
Кудесник 2006 (99/3061)
1^st Prize, 8^th TT

4 + 2

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Zoran S. Gavrilovski (24-02-1968) Macedonian composer and Grandmaster

Zoran Gavrilovski is the editor of the "Macedonian Problemist". Some recent originals published in the MP can be found on this Italian problemists website. He is also the Synthetics sub-editor of "The Problemist".

Zoran Gavrilovski composes direct mates or helpmates with the same great talent.

Gavrilovski, Zoran S.
Variantim, 1994