Saturday, December 8, 2012

December 9th

Jiří Chocholouš (09-12-1856 - 03-09-1930) Czech composer

Jiří Chocholouš
[Wikimedia]
Jiří Chocholouš was with Pospisil and Dobrusky one of the fathers of the Bohemian composing school.
John Beasley quotes this fourmover in his "In praise of old problems" and proposes an improved version of it.
Here are two other fourmovers by Jiří Chocholouš:

Chocholouš, Jiří
Deutscher Schachbund, 1889
3rd Prize


#4 8 + 11

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Chocholouš, Jiří
Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten, 1921
2nd Prize


#4 10 + 10

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Yves Tallec (09-12-1927 - 22-04-2020) French composer

Yves Tallec, Messigny 2003
[Christian Poisson]

Yves Tallec composed in all genres. He was an International Judge, the editor of helpmates and selfmates of French-speaking magazine "diagrammes" and the President of the French Problemists Association.

Tallec, Yves
Union des Problémistes de France, 1957
3rd Prize


#2 9 + 2

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Karlheinz Bachmann (09-12-1938 - 07-01-2014) German composer

Karlheinz Bachmann
[dsenem2010.de]


Karlheinz Bachmann was a chess player and composer. He was specialized in long selfmates such as this selfmate in 223 moves, direct mates with (many) promotions and proofgames.

Bachmann, Karlheinz
Ernst Hasselkus Memorial, 2002
2nd Prize

s#61  4 + 2

Do not expect to solve this selfmate in one day, but you can try to find the cooks. Below is a correct version in 50 moves.

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Bachmann, Karlheinz
Ernst Hasselkus Memorial, 2002
Special Prize
Die Schwalbe, Feb 2003 (v)

s#50  4 + 2


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Вячеслав Карлович Пильченко (09-12-1952) Russian composer and Grand Master (Vyacheslav Karlovich Pilchenko)

Vyacheslav Pilchenko
[Grigory Popov]

Vyacheslav Pilchenko composes mostly twomovers.

Пильченко, Вячеслав Карлович
The Problemist, May 1996
1st Prize


#2 vvvvv 9 + 9

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Алексей Алексеевич Сочнев (09-12-1961) Russian composer and Grandmaster (Alexey Alexeyevich Sochnev)

Alexey Sochnev
[Grigory Popov]

Alexey Sochnev is an endgame study composer from St Petersburg.

Сочнев, Алексей Алексеевич
Gurgenidze,D-50 JT EG, 2004
1st Special Prize


= 3 + 3

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Сочнев, Алексей Алексеевич
Pat a Mat, 25th Nov 2008
1st Prize, 2006-2007


= 4 + 4

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 9, 2012 at 7:05 AM

    Karlheinz Bachmann s#61 der wKh7 gehoert nach h6

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    1. EricDecember 9, 2012 at 7:26 AM

      Corrected: the wK now stands on h6 on the diagram and can play 32.Kh7.

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    2. paulMarch 3, 2018 at 1:53 PM

      Meanwhile, s#61 by Bachmann was cooked, see P1107828 in PDB.

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  2. Peter Siegfried KrugMay 12, 2026 at 7:36 AM

    About Alexey Sochniev: He represents pure expertise. He produces for the elite, he wins titles, but he doesn't communicate. In the digital space of 2026, he is a "silent giant." His studies are mathematically perfect, but they don't tell a story that extends beyond the board. He trusts that the quality of the move is sufficient—but in the internet age, a work that isn't contextualized is invisible to the algorithm and thus to the world.

    Iuri Akobia, on the other hand, saw himself not only as a composer but also as a monumental archivist and encyclopedist. His stroke of genius was the "World Anthology of Chess Studies." He brought chess studies to the world by systematizing them and making them etched for eternity in book form and databases. Akobia understood that knowledge is power—and that this knowledge must be made accessible. He used his position at Georgian state television and his role as an engineer to give chess a public platform. He transformed chess studies into a national cultural asset. Akobia not only tended the garden, he mapped it for visitors and opened its gates wide.

    Serhiy Didukh, on the other hand, is the modern interactionist and critic. What he does right is combine intellect with provocation. He uses platforms like "Chess Study Art" and social discourse spaces to defend the chess study as an art form. He doesn't just talk about moves, but about aesthetics, about the "thematic misfire," and about the struggle of the human mind against the machine. Didukh gives the chess study a face and a voice. He makes it a topic for blogs, forums, and modern content platforms. He understands that a study today must be "content."
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    Sochniev's fate illustrates the looming threat to the entire art form: digital oblivion. Those who, like Sochniev, remain within the "walled garden" become part of a dying tradition. Without the work of people like Akobia, who preserve the knowledge, and Didukh, who keep it alive and controversial, the chess study would degenerate into a secret language that no one would eventually understand.

    Akobia and Didukh carry the chess study into the world because they have the courage to look beyond the confines of the 64 squares. They transform a technical discipline into a human narrative. They prove that the chess study is not an isolated puzzle, but rather a part of the world literature of logic.

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