<< modified December 29th 2009>> Thanks to cg.com for my bio and games (even a minor player from the last century can have some memories...) - sorry for turning this profile (for the while) to my <online page>...       Back in the 70'ies - I was called <the problemist>, although I never published in that period... I had a small repertoire (including some classics) in order to occasionally challenge other players - for instance the little story told here http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop... By the way, Shinkman's fourmover was a so blockbustering problem hit , that it became (in the form, not in the content) the model for...<My First Attempt>: "Skák" 1983 
click for larger view #4 mate in four * from cpds online: <Quelle: "Skák" (Reykjavik)
ZK: "Skàk" is (or was?!) the most important chess magazine from Iceland and it won world wide notority during the fischer spassky match they had not a problem section then but the original was published in the letters section together with my letter writen in english and translated by the editor to icelandic _ the little fourmover itself is a bagatelle and later i discovered that the same idea was already well known since the days of <d"orville campbell> etc _ the editor of the only problems magazine of my country saw (this was my first direct problem composed in the seventies) and suggested a publication abroad (mainly because the mag published only twomovers) i accepted the suggestion but considered that a magazine for players would be the ideal as it was for me just a so called newspaper problem _ (2009-7-15)
ZK: The spelling "Skák" is correct - my keyboard had a quick bug while I was preparing the post (2009-7-15)> Yes, strangelly enough, when Joseph Graham Campbell published his own first attempt, he was antecipating -by more than 120 years- my own first attempt... and of course I could not know his (more accomplished) fivemover, even lesser the details about it's publication - the coincidence is the <Opus One> condition (oh well, similar ideas where showed already by d'Orville in the 1830s...) Maybe You remember from my previous profile here, that
<'while cleaning the attic, <someone> confounded my games with
garbage'> - it was an intentionally humourous, but true way of
relating how my own chess playing records are fragmentary . Not a
stern loss to anyone, of course - besides, perhaps, for myself if I
was intending to collect my own games. Following games are from events
that proceeded without a formal bulletin, and, in many instances,
without even the assemblage of all score-sheets
Match Paraná vs Rio de Janeiro in the students olympiads – last round.
We were leading, and a single point could be the ‘golden medal game’.
In such situations You would avoid hazardous play, right? Yes, and in
that specific event I was unbeaten so far – they joked: ‘Mr. Draw‘
... Well, after some magistral wood-shifting, we arrived to 23.d3 –
some nasty threats over the side, so... I won a ! Then, following
in the same – wise – adagio time... a second ! (well, this time
should be 33. takes the ‘h4’ – to avoid h4-h3 and some
annoyances... Later (my 'zeitnot' again) he managed to obtain a series
of checks, I returned part of the advantage and it became a lenghty
s endgame – well, You know – white won (and – yes!- the golden
medal was won already too – to be the second board with Sunyé in the
first and Fukuda ('the samurai') in the third was so
tranquilizing...)
[Event "JUBS - Bra U-26 Ol"]
[Site "João Pessoa"]
[Date "1979.7.??"]
[Round "last"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "Machado da Gama, Hermes A "]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 Bd7
8.Bd3 Bc6 9.c3 Nd7 10.O-O Nb6 11.Re1 O-O 12.Qc2 Nd5 13.Rad1 h6 14.Qd2
Be7 15.Ne5 Be8 16.Bb1 Nf6 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6 18.Ng4 h5 19.Nxf6+ Qxf6 20.Re5
g6 21.Qh6 Qg7 22.Qf4 Rd8 23.Rd3 Rd5 24.Rxd5 exd5 25.Qxc7 Bc6 26.Re3 Qf6
27.Qe7 Qf4 28.Qe5 Qh6 29.Qf6 Re8 30.Rxe8+ Bxe8 31.f4 h4 32.Qg5 Qf8
33.Qxd5 h3 34.gxh3 Qh6 35.Qf3 Bd7 36.Be4 Bxh3 37.Bxb7 Qh4 38.Qg3 Qh5
39.Bf3 1-0
From the last round of the traditional International Open in
the ‘City of the Princes’ – he was playing for a win with black to
become a joint winner – I selected a lesser known variation – and
soon a very interesting motif appeared: 15.f4!! A piece ‘en prise’?
– offer another! – many pages of analysis searching to demonstrate
that the counter-sac was still the lesser evil... But after
20...0-0, the best finish was: 21.d5! (or to ‘e4’) h8 ( )
22.xf6 gxf6 23.xe5! g8 24.f4 fxe5 25.xe5+ f6 26.xb8
h3!? 27.xb7! and wins) – Well, I won, but after a protracted
endgame full of vicissitudes and two time-scrambles ( My Botticelli
became a shaggy sketch... I will spare You of the moves here – “and
white won”) – thus: becoming myself a joint winner!... França Garcia,
from São Paulo, died still very young, in tragic circumstances, in the
early 80’s <note: "In 1982, at 26, from the consequences of a railway
<accident>">
position after 15...e5
click for larger view[Event "Open"]
[Site "Joinville"]
[Date "1981.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "França Garcia, Antônio José"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 dxe5 5.Nxe5 e6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.Qf3 Bd6
8.Nxd7 Nxd7 9.Ne4 Be7 10.O-O Qb6 11.Ba4 Qa6 12.Nc3 Rb8 13.Bb5 Qd6
14.d3 a6 15.Bf4 e5 16.Bxe5 Qxe5 17.Rfe1 axb5 18.Rxe5 Nxe5 19.Qg3 Bf6
20.Re1 O-O 21.Rxe5 Bxe5 22.Qxe5 Bd7 23.Qxc5 1-0
A problem can contain three stages, called ‘phases’ (like musical
‘movements’, or theatrical ‘acts’, namely SET (suppose black was to
play); VIRTUAL (tries) and REAL (solution) – A good solver is the
interpreter of the composer’s message, being able to set up a
‘montage’ (edition) of the contents in every detail. In the following,
there’s a whole virtual phase – white s try e7,f8,d8, and each to
d4; and black dodges with just three moves: d6-d5, d5 and a4. The
key (or ‘real play’) changes this setting. A finnish commentator
wrote: “A dialogue between the white s and the black ”.
Z Kornin
“Suomen Shakki” 1997
click for larger view #2 Mate in Two A good plan for White: h6-g4-f6 or e5 - the question is: f5
of h3 (one can be the key, and the other a try...) - attention to
black's best defense 1...c7!, and the Queen sacrifice 2.a6! -
variations includes pin-mates, cross-checks and underpromotion Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1998
1st Honorable Mention
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#3 White to play and mate in three moves
The idea - an eight variations "Siers-Rössel"
composition with a Knight in a six jumps starting point. Be sure You
find all variations, then the problem will be solved
Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1999
1st Honorable Mention
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#3 White to play and mate in three
moves
<the very mag in which C. Schlechter won also 1st HM in the #3
contest in 1910>
k
Maybe some of the fellow kibitzers here still remember the
"Belén-Story" - from middle 2004... A complete overview of that
'online workshop' is to be found in an article, by Hanspeter Suwe, in
magazine "König & Turm".
***** Babson-Task: The apotheosis of Echo-Promotions Theme...
- Some Years ago, I imagined following scheme:
Try: =? - - - Refutation =!
Key: =! - - -
...extending the task to a virtual play! Try (pseudo-key) and try's
refutation (only move) displaying an echo-promotion... (Well - Chess
Composition is 'The Art of the Possible' - After many researches, we
arrived to an unique working position
http://christian.poisson.free.fr/pr...
More on 'Babsons' here in this animated <list> (in German) by
Siegfried Hornecker. Some 'cyclic' included
http://sh-kunstschach.eu/pgnlisten/...
And in this article in "Mat-Plus Forum" even a 'shortest proof-game'
by Mario Richter
http://www.milanvel.net/mp/snapshot...
On Composition - articles (<"The Task of the Changing Pin-Mates
Following Flights">:
http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop... <"An Original for the Holidays">
http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...
<"One Setting, Many Concepts">
http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop... | 
