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Carl Kockelkorn

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Years covered: 1865 to 1871


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CARL KOCKELKORN
(born Nov-26-1843, died Jul-16-1914, 70 years old) Germany

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Carl Kockelkorn was born and died in Cologne. He was a friend of Johannes Kohtz.

Wikipedia article: Carl Kockelkorn

Last updated: 2020-12-14 13:47:16

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1. C Kockelkorn vs G Schnitzler  0-13118655th West German CongressB23 Sicilian, Closed
2. C Kockelkorn vs C Leffmann  0-1361871Krefeld Rheinisches HauptturnierC50 Giuoco Piano
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Jun-19-05
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  Benzol: Is is problem composer Carl Kockelkorn?
Nov-26-08  DoctorD: Yes, co-author of one of the most wonderful books in my possession, "Das Indische Problem".
May-19-09  myschkin: . . .

The Great K&K (Kohtz and Kockelkorn):

Johannes Kohtz moved with his parents to Cologne where he met <Carl Kockelkorn> (in his early years he called himself Kannengießer after the name of his stepfather. Carl worked as a private tutor in Cologne).

When they were still pupils they engaged in chess composition. When both were 17 years old, Wilhelm Kufferath allowed them to publish their first compositions in the Sonntagsblätter für Schachfreunde (lit.: Sunday papers for chess friends). Kohtz and Kockelkorn were quite fond of Philipp Klett's problems.

In their views of chess composition, Kohtz and Kockelkorn harmonized so much that after a short while they decided to publish their problems only as co-productions. After being confronted with rumors that problems by only one of them would also be published as co-productions, Johannes Kohtz wrote 1870 in the Schachzeitung that on every composition both sat together on the chessboard.

Half a year after Arthur Gehlert attacked the Altdeutsche Schule (lit.: old German school), Kohtz and Kockelkorn published their book <Das Indische Problem (lit.: the Indian Problem)>**. This led to arguments with Johann Nepomuk Berger who founded the Altdeutsche Schule. While Kohtz wrote a correspondence that was published in Deutsches Wochenschach, Berger replied in the Deutsche Schachzeitung. Kohtz had better reasons for his views on chess composition so he won the correspondence - which had to be aborted at the start of the First World War- and thereby led to the replacement of the Altdeutsche Schule by the Logical School.

The Indian Problem (in German): http://www.scribd.com/doc/3101107/J...

**Das große Wetterleuchten im Problemschach ereignete sich im Jahre 1903. Johannes Kohtz - wortgewaltig und gewiss auch streitsüchtig - und <Carl Kockelkorn>, der gemäßigte Part dieses Dioskurenpaares, traten mit dem Werk "Das Indische Problem" an die Öffentlichkeit. Vorgestellt wurden Schnittpunktprobleme, in denen die Idee im Vordergrund stand. Der Titel dieser kleinen Revolution im Problemschach geht zurück auf die Goldgräberzeit des Schachproblems: Auf das Jahr 1845, als Howard Staunton in seiner berühmten Schachecke in der Illustrated London News ein mysteriöses Problem veröffentlichte, das ungelöst blieb. Damals bezeichnete man alles Geheimnisvolle in England als "indisch" und so kam Stauntons Problem zu seinem Namen als "Das Indische Problem". Merkwürdig nur, dass es wirklich aus Indien stammte, sein Autor war Rev. Henry A. Loveday aus Delhi.

Freilich: <Schnittpunktprobleme> gab es gewiss schon früher, doch bislang hatte das Kind noch keinen Namen. In der Zwischenzeit musste die Altdeutsche Schule die Abspaltung einer weiteren Problemrichtung hinnehmen: der Böhmischen Schule, dessen bekanntester Interpret Miroslav Havel (bürgerlich Dr. Miroslav Kostal) war. Nicht alle Vertreter dieser Richtung, die häufig Dreizüger komponierten, in denen das schöne, klare Mattbild die Hauptrolle spielte und denen die Altdeutsche Schule als zu schwer erschien, stammten jedoch aus Böhmen.

(source: http://www.karlonline.org/102_1.htm)

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