Chess Composers: February 7th

Friedrich Capraez (07-02-1830 - 05-06-1890) Swiss composer

Friedrich Capraez was the first editor of the Schweizerische Schachzeitung. Biographical details can be found (in German) here, among other articles about Swiss chess history.

Here is an entertaining selfmate in 9:

Capraez, Friedrich
1083v Schachzeitung 01-02/1860

s#9		9 + 9

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Karol Piltz (07-02-1896 - 00-09-1939) Polish composer and chess master

Karol Piltz [Wikipedia]

Piltz, Karol
Göteborgs Schacksällskap, 1919
6^th Prize

7 + 6

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Ludvik Štěpán (07-02-1904 - 13-01-1971) Czech composer

Let's continue with this selfmate which was included in the FIDE Album and would be excellent for a solving competition:

Štěpán, Ludvík
Feenschach, 1958
1^st Prize

s#5

8 + 4

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Karl Christian Nielsen (07-02-1906 - 16-06-1967) Danish composer

Are you looking for strong sensations? Look at this threemover:

Nielsen, Karl Christian
Magasinet, 1936
2^nd Prize

10 + 11

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Ingvar Källström (07-02-1908 - 19-05-1995) Swedish composer

Källström, Ingvar
Tidskrift för Schack, 1930

4 + 3

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Béla Bakay (07-02-1913 - 2000) Hungarian composer

Bakay mostly published long problems, but we chose this twomover: a hard nut to solve!

Bakay, Béla
A.simay-Molnár MT Corr, 1939
1^st Prize

#2* vvv

10 + 10

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Anton Bidleň (07-02-1952) Slovak composer

Anton Bidleň is one of the very few composers who composed direct mates with Duplex for instance one of them can be seen here. But let's quote a very recent problem, from 2012, which is also quoted here: White plays 126 moves and mates the black King.

Bidleň, Anton
Blog zlínského problemisty, 4^th Jan 2012