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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

August 16th

Victor Holst (16-08-1844 - 25-03-1924) Danish composer

Victor Holst
[problemskak.dk]

Victor Holst composed direct mates and wrote some articles for "Skakbladet" at the beginning of the19th century. He was the problem editor of the "Familie-Journalen".
He gave his name to the Holst theme: a thematic try fails due to a black promotion; during the solution, White's foreplan forces the black pawn to make a promotion different from that in the try and then White can apply the main plan of the try, which now works.

Holst, Viktor
Husrennen, 1886


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