William Marks composed direct mates.
Marks, William
777 Chess Miniatures in Three, 1908
777 Chess Miniatures in Three, 1908
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
September 3rd
William Marks (03-09-1880 - 07-1947) Irish composer
William Marks composed direct mates.
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William Marks composed direct mates.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
September 2nd
Александр Петрович Казанцев (02-09-1906 - 13-09-2002) Russian composer and International Master (Aleksandr Petrovich Kazantsev)
Aleksandr Kazantsev was a SF writer and ufologist whose works in Russian are listed on this site. You can also refer to Alain Pallier's article in EG 193 (January 2011) for more biographical information and the indication of the website made by A.P.Kazantsev's son about his father's works.
Aleksandr Kazantsev was an endgame study composer who also composed direct mates. JMRW has selected some of Kazantsev's studies on his website.
He wrote "Dar Kaissy" (Caissa's gift, 1983) that contains 211 endgame studies illustrated by tales and with R.Kofman and M. Liburkin "Sovetskij shakhmatnyj etjud" (1955) about the endgame study in USSR.
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| Aleksander Kazantsev [Source: aforteanosla.com.ar [broken link] ] |
Aleksandr Kazantsev was a SF writer and ufologist whose works in Russian are listed on this site. You can also refer to Alain Pallier's article in EG 193 (January 2011) for more biographical information and the indication of the website made by A.P.Kazantsev's son about his father's works.
Aleksandr Kazantsev was an endgame study composer who also composed direct mates. JMRW has selected some of Kazantsev's studies on his website.
He wrote "Dar Kaissy" (Caissa's gift, 1983) that contains 211 endgame studies illustrated by tales and with R.Kofman and M. Liburkin "Sovetskij shakhmatnyj etjud" (1955) about the endgame study in USSR.
Казанцев, Александр Петрович
FIDE Ty, 1958
FIDE Ty, 1958
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Казанцев, Александр Петрович
Kazantsiev JT, 1986
Kazantsiev JT, 1986
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Friday, August 31, 2012
September 1st
Alfred Wornum Mongrédien (01-09-1877 - 26-02-1954) British composer
Alfred Mongrédien was one of the great composers who promoted the logical problems. The results of his works were published in A. White's Christmas Series under the title "Antiform" (1929) co-authored by F. Palatz: it can be downloaded here.
Alfred Mongrédien composed strategic and economic moremovers in generally 4 moves. He also composed a twomover cylinder chess problem (see on chessvariants.org).
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Alfred Mongrédien was one of the great composers who promoted the logical problems. The results of his works were published in A. White's Christmas Series under the title "Antiform" (1929) co-authored by F. Palatz: it can be downloaded here.
Alfred Mongrédien composed strategic and economic moremovers in generally 4 moves. He also composed a twomover cylinder chess problem (see on chessvariants.org).
Mongrédien, Alfred Wornum
Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1934
Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1934
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Mongrédien, Alfred Wornum
Chemnitzer Tageblatt, 1925
1st Prize
Chemnitzer Tageblatt, 1925
1st Prize
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
August 31st
William Bone (31-08-1810 - 14-12-1874) British composer
William Bone composed direct mates and selfmates.
He wrote "One Hundred Original Positions" and was a friend of George Walker's (see Szén, July 9th)
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William Bone composed direct mates and selfmates.
He wrote "One Hundred Original Positions" and was a friend of George Walker's (see Szén, July 9th)
Bone, William
Le Palamède, 1838
Le Palamède, 1838
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Bone, William
1904
1904
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
August 30th
Тигран Борисович Горгиев (30-08-1910 - 13-12-1976) Russian-Ukrainian composer and International Master (Tigran Borisovich Gorgiev)
Tigran Gorgiev was an endgame study composer and International Judge. He was associated with the grotesque style and with domination studies.
You can read this article by S.Tkachenko about T.Gorgiev and his studies on chesspro.ru.
JMRW has selected some studies by Gorgiev on his site.
Tigran Gorgiev wrote a collection of his studies "Избранные этюды" (Izbrannye Etyudy, 1959).
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| Tigran Gorgiev [Wikipedia] |
Tigran Gorgiev was an endgame study composer and International Judge. He was associated with the grotesque style and with domination studies.
You can read this article by S.Tkachenko about T.Gorgiev and his studies on chesspro.ru.
JMRW has selected some studies by Gorgiev on his site.
Tigran Gorgiev wrote a collection of his studies "Избранные этюды" (Izbrannye Etyudy, 1959).
Горгиев, Тигран Борисович
Lenin MT, 1970
4th Prize
Lenin MT, 1970
4th Prize
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
August 29th
Павел Павлович Бобров (29-08-1862 - 23-12-1911) Russian composer (Pavel Pavlovich Bobrov)
If you can read Russian, you will discover details about Pavel Bobrov on Wikipedia.
While this threemover deserves a look because of its presentation of two en-passant captures (maybe the first achievement of this task in a threemover) this endgame study has been selected:
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| Pavel Bobrov [allshashki.ru] |
If you can read Russian, you will discover details about Pavel Bobrov on Wikipedia.
While this threemover deserves a look because of its presentation of two en-passant captures (maybe the first achievement of this task in a threemover) this endgame study has been selected:
Бобров, Павел Павлович
Шахматное обозрение 1904
Шахматное обозрение 1904
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Monday, August 27, 2012
August 28th
Jan Dobruský (28-08-1853 - 31-05-1907) Czech composer
Jan Dobruský was the editor of the chess column of "Světozor" from 1874 till 1879 and that of "Humoristické listy" from 1874 till 1884. He was also one of the first editors of "Časopis českých šachistů".
He is considered as one of the fathers of the Bohemian school, with Pospíšil and Konig. 250 of his compositions, mostly direct mates in three moves or more, selected with an introduction by J. Pospisil in "Šachové úlohy" (1907).
According to the introduction of the book "Jan Dobruský: Šachové úlohy" (Chess problems), prepared by J. Pospíšil, Prague 1907, J. Dobruský used a lot of pseudonyms: J. Živsa (his first problem), J. Kolář (at least 14 problems), V. Novák, V. Bláha, J. Hanuš etc.
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| Jan Dobruský [Wikipedia] |
Jan Dobruský was the editor of the chess column of "Světozor" from 1874 till 1879 and that of "Humoristické listy" from 1874 till 1884. He was also one of the first editors of "Časopis českých šachistů".
He is considered as one of the fathers of the Bohemian school, with Pospíšil and Konig. 250 of his compositions, mostly direct mates in three moves or more, selected with an introduction by J. Pospisil in "Šachové úlohy" (1907).
According to the introduction of the book "Jan Dobruský: Šachové úlohy" (Chess problems), prepared by J. Pospíšil, Prague 1907, J. Dobruský used a lot of pseudonyms: J. Živsa (his first problem), J. Kolář (at least 14 problems), V. Novák, V. Bláha, J. Hanuš etc.
Dobruský, Jan
Světozor, 1878
1st Prize
Světozor, 1878
1st Prize
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