Chess Composers: August 3rd

Henry Augustus Loveday (03-08-1815 - 09-01-1848) British-Indian composer

Henry Loveday is famous for having composed and sent to Howard Stauton, the then director of the "Chess Player's Chronicle", the famous Indian problem below:

Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle, Feb 1845

8 + 5

The problem was cooked and the most current version is the following:

Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle (v) 1845

8 + 5

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Loveday understood the importance of his idea and published another extraordinary work in 1846.

Loveday, Henry Augustus
The Chess Player's Chronicle, 1846

6 + 3

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Petrus Adrianus van der Kraan (03-08-1905 - 1987) Dutch composer

Petrus van der Kraan was a twomover and helpmate composer who was interested in tempo play: see for instance this h#3 or this h#2 or this witty helpstalemate.

Van Der Kraan, Petrus Adrianus
Tijdschrift vd KNSB, 1947
1^st Prize

11 + 12

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Stefan Parzuch (03-08-1937) Polish composer

Stefan Parzuch composed twomovers but lately he has been devoting himself to helpmates. One of his best works is the h#4 awarded 2nd Prize by Piotr Murdzia in 2000, but it is rather difficult to solve. An easier prey:

Parzuch, Stefan
Grudzinski-Memorial, 2004
3^rd Prize

h#2

2.1.1.1

5 + 10

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Vito Rallo (03-08-1939) Italian composer

Vito Rallo

Vito Rallo composes direct mates, helpmates and fairy problems.

Rallo, Vito
Telescacco 2000, Jan 2007

h#2

2 solutions

5 + 7

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Rallo, Vito
StrateGems, 2008
4^th HM

h#4

2 solutions
ParrainCirce

3 + 3

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Valerio Agostini (03-08-1954) Italian composer

The Italian Problemists' team:
Front row: Valerio Agostini, Vito Rallo, Mario Parrinello, Marco Guida, Francesco Simoni, Roberto Cassano (socio di Frascati Scacchi), Rodolfo Riva & Marco Crucioli;
Back row: Alessandro Cuppini, Andrea Bracci, Fabio Magini, Marco Bonavoglia, Francesco Tinebra & Daniele Giacobbe

Valerio Agostini composes direct mates, mostly threemovers.

Agostini, Valerio
L'Italia Scacchistica, 1988
2^nd Place

10 + 11

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Ricardo de Mattos Vieira (03-08-1960) Brazilian composer and FIDE Master

Ricardo de Mattos Vieira
[KoBulChess.com]

Let's quote his portrait on KoBulChess.com:

He was introduced to chess problems in 1972 by his friend Mario Figueiredo. Mario’s father, José Figueiredo, and Felix Sonnenfeld were his mentors, and led him to the helpmate field. After the death of José Figueiredo, in 1978, Ricardo insisted with Sonnenfeld to resume the activities of the UBP (the Brazilian Union of Problemists). Besides being responsible for the publication of the Boletim da UBP for many years, he took part in the Directory of UBP until 2006. For the last 10 years, he has been receiving technical advices from his friend Almiro Zarur and recently in genres other than helpmates. He has 8.33 FIDE Albums points.

One of the best problems composed by Ricardo and Mario Figueiredo is the following:

Figueiredo, Mário & De Mattos Vieira, Ricardo
Die Schwalbe, 1986 (97/5288)
1^st Prize