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Nov-24-08
 | | Pawn and Two: A series of articles, titled "Lessons in Chess - Advanced School of Combination" was started in the periodical "Schach" in No. 1 of the 1952 volume by Bertold Koch. It was taken over the following year (No. 5, 1953) by Kurt Richter. Since that time, Richter supplied 309 articles, with some 3,600 diagrams in an unbroken series. The last article was published after Richter's untimely death, in No. 1 of the 1970 volume. Richter's articles provide some of the most interesting and entertaining examples of chess combinations and positions that one can find anywhere. The positions were usually selected from actual games, and you could count on Richter to provide some witty remark to help illustrate the problem. The solution to the problem would often also have one or more surprising turns before the solution was clear. Richter said he wanted to make the chess problem popular, and I believe he succeeded. His problems are entertaining, instructive, but are still a challenge to players of all levels. Fortunately for us, a collection of Kurt Richter's fine articles were published under the title, "Chess Combination As A Fine Art" - Editors - Werner Golz & Paul Keres. I highly recommend this fine book. |
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Nov-24-08
| | Pawn and Two: At the Prague Olympics of 1931, Kurt Richter finished 3rd on board 4, with a score of 10.5 - 4.5 (+7=7-1). In that tournament, Richter scored a nice win: K Richter vs A Vajda, 1931. In that game, after 14...b4, Richter found the brilliant and winning 15.Rxd5!!. 
click for larger viewInstead of 15...Nd7, Black had other unsatisfactory tries: 15...exd5 16.Nxd5 Qa7 17.Nf6+ Ke7 18.Bf3 Bf5 19.Qc4! Rf8 20.Bxa8; or 15...bxc3 16.Rxc5 cxb2+ 17.Kb1 0-0 18.Ne4 Kg7 19.Nd6!; or 15...Bxf2 16.Nce4 exd5 17.Nf6+ Kf8 18.Nxd5 Bg3 19.Qxg3. |
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Aug-07-09
 | | whiteshark: <Karpova's> mentioned article on <Dr. Zabel>, CN 5229 (+ answer CN 5243), can be found now here: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Sep-27-09 | | birthtimes: There's 377 of his games on this database...
http://www.chesslive.de/ |
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| Dec-12-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Any relation to Andy? |
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| Apr-28-10 | | badenbaden: Pawn and Two: <Fortunately for us, a collection of Kurt Richter's fine articles were published under the title, "Chess Combination As A Fine Art" - Editors - Werner Golz & Paul Keres. I highly recommend this fine book.> "Combinaciones en Ajedrez"
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/19%2... |
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| Sep-08-10 | | ughaibu: As given, Richter lost. |
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Sep-08-10
| | Pawn and Two: In the book, "The Chess of Bobby Fischer", by Robert Burger, the following wonderful ending by Kurt Richter is given. If anyone has the full gamescore, please submit it to chessgames.com. The ending is from the game, Kurt Richter vs Doernte, Berlin, 1939: 
click for larger viewThe above book stated: <Two connected passed Pawns on the sixth can't be stopped by a Rook unless one of the Pawns is already under attack. What has Black to fear?> It certainly looks hopeless for White, but Richter found the win! 1.Kd6! d2 2.Kc7 d1Q 3.Ra6+! bxa6 4.b6+ Ka8 5.b7+ Ka7 6.b8Q+ - checkmate! <ughaibu> Thanks for the alert. I corrected, to show Richter as White. |
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| Dec-19-10 | | Alan McGowan: The position quoted by 'Pawn and Two'did not involve Kurt Richter. It was played between Erik Richter and Dörnte (Doernte)in 1939, in Berlin. The position is given by Kurt Richter in 'Schachmatt'(1950), referenced in the Foreword and on page 60. |
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Mar-10-11
 | | GrahamClayton: An example of the "Executioner" at his attacking best: [Event "?"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "1932.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Richter, Kurt Paul Otto Joseph"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4  f6 2. e5 d5 3.  c4 b6 4. b3 c5 5. a3 c6 6. f3 g6 7.  e2 g7 8. h4 h6 9. d4 cxd4 10. h5 g5 11. b5 O-O 12. xg5 a6 
click for larger view13. d6 c7 14. xh6 exd6 15. c4  h8 16. g5 f5 17. exf6 1-0 Source: Bill Wall, “500 Alekhine Miniatures”, Chess Enterprises, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, 1994 |
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| Nov-24-11 | | Antiochus: Had he made an international career, he could be considered sucessor of Rudolf Spielmann as "The Last Romantic".
Richter's taste in openings was nearly
to the wild and their sacrifices were noisy, but his career was restricted to
the Germany.
He was a prolific author-as can be seen
in his biography on German wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_R... -
but only one work was published in English language
"Chess combination as a fine art". |
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| Nov-24-11 | | JoergWalter: <Antiochus> Kurt Richter nicknamed "Der Scharfrichter" = "the executioner". His books are good and entertaining. |
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Nov-24-11
 | | wordfunph: <JoergWalter>
..or another version --- "Executioner of Berlin" |
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| Nov-24-11 | | JoergWalter: <wordfunph: "Executioner of Berlin"> right, "Scharfrichter von Berlin" |
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Nov-24-11
 | | HeMateMe: I looked him up on Amazon, some chess books, nothing titled "Executioner of Berlin". Is this a book? |
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| Nov-24-11 | | JoergWalter: <HeMateMe> "executioner of Berlin" was his nickname I am not aware of a book with that title by K. Richter. But his collection of shortgames ("666 shortgames of chess") and combinations ("the fine art of chess combination") are excellent. (I'm not sure about the english titles which are my translation) |
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Nov-24-11
| | whiteshark: <H#M: Is this a book?> No, it's just a <nickname> and not a job description. It's coming from a wordplay in German. <scharf> (= sharp, spicy, hot, subtle, caustic, aggressive) to name a few of its meanings) http://www.dict.cc/?s=scharf + <Richter> (= judge) is a common name in Germany = <Scharfrichter> = executioner |
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| Nov-24-11 | | blackburne: No "Notable games" of Kurt Richter... uuuuffff
See this:
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/15%2... |
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| Nov-24-11 | | JoergWalter: One of my first games when I learned chess (Pachmann, Mittelspielpraxis): K Richter vs L Abramavicius, 1930 |
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| Nov-24-11 | | Penguincw: Well it's been about 111 years since he was born. |
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| Jan-29-12 | | Antiochus: "Everything is very simple, but you have to see it on the chessboard" Kurt Richter. |
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Mar-27-12
| | wordfunph: "Wherever there are chess players, there will be mistakes and if this should ever be different, it will be the end of chess." - IM Kurt Richter |
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Jun-29-12
| | HeMateMe: This guy has enough names to be the Beatles. I'm almost certain that somebody, somewhere, has had their name legally changed to John Paul George Ringo...maybe the surname is Fab? Dunno... |
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Jul-20-12
 | | Cemoblanca: This man had certainly Brazilian roots! :D |
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Nov-24-12
 | | brankat: R.I.P. Herr Richter. |
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