| Mar-20-04 | | Lawrence: <Honza>, do you have any veridical info on the fate of the Kubbel brothers? The websites I've seen so far seem to mix them up. |
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Mar-26-04
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| Jul-13-05 | | gendalf: <Honza Cervenka> Sadly, I think this is true. |
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| Sep-04-08 | | myschkin: . . .
In the late thirties our chess composers suffered heavy losses. One of the leading Soviet composers of studies, Sergei Kaminer (1908-1938), working as an engineer in the chemical industry, uas executed. Together with his mother, the problemist Petr Moussoury (1911-1937) was executed. One of the brothers Platov, Mikhail (1883-1942), was convicted as "enemy of the people" and died in the Gulag. <In 1938, one of the brothers Kubbel, Arvid (1889-1938), was executed.> Later, in 1941, Mikhail Barulin (1897-1943) was arrested and died in the Gulag. After Stalin's death, all of them were posthumously rehabilitated. (according to http://www.chehovchess.ru/lib/lek/5...) Arvid Kubbel was a noted chess problemist. For over 30 years, the Soviets said he died in the siege of Leningrad. <Instead, he died of nephritis in a Soviet gulag.> (according to http://www.geocities.com/siliconval... *) * In 1942 Ilya Rabinovich, Leonid Kubbel, Mikhail Kogan (chess historian), Samuil Vainshtein (chief arbiter), and Alexei Troitzky starved to death during the siege of Leningrad. |
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| May-08-09 | | myschkin: . . .
"Weiß begeht zunächst Selbstmord und setzt dann aus dem Jenseits noch matt" 
click for larger view(composed by Leonid Kubbel 1922)
white to move |
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| Jun-08-09 | | sultanmir: <myschkin> the above study is brilliant (its white to move and win) ... A video analysis can be found at youtube..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBB...
I also saw this study on Leonid Kubbel page at wikipedia.. |
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| Aug-03-10 | | vonKrolock: Leonid I. Kubbel
"Shakhmaty v SSSR", 1950 or 1948?
click for larger view mate in 7 after white's second move 
click for larger view(three white units blocks the g8-c4 line) position after black's five move
click for larger view
...now it's mate in two - the line g8-c4 is free, and the black Rook 'e4' is paralized, blocked by black units!! A striking and highly original conception!
***** Complete solution & more spectacular Chess problems presented in Edward Winter's chessbase column "Chess Explorations" number 45, selected and commented by Michael McDowell http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Aug-29-10
 | | GrahamClayton: A brief bio of Leonid plus compositions by Leonid and Arvid: http://herve.delboy.perso.sfr.fr/ku... |
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| Jan-04-11 | | Crocomule: Someone told me that Vladimir Ilyich actually solved a Platov bros. composition? Anyone know... |
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| Aug-26-12 | | Karpova: Arvid won the 5th Baltic Main Tournament at Liepāja 1911, thereby becoming Champion of the Baltic Chess Union. From page 347 of the 1911 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Feb-08-14 | | Karpova: 5th Baltic Main tournament at Liepāja 1911. Welcoming on April 9 at 1100 in the Hotel St. Petersburg. As there were so many participants (16 in the Main, 4 in the Minor tournament) they decided to increase playing time per day from 8 to 9 hours. The number of prizes was incrased from 4 to 5. The arbiters were (decided by election): Freymann, Fu ckner, Lüth, Korn junior and Kubbel. There was also a rest day on April 17 with a banquet.* 1. Kubbel 12.0
2-3. K Grünthal 11.0
2-3. H Oehrn 11.0
4-5. A Wait 9.5
4-5. Dr. Blumenfeldt 9.5
6. Ungern-Sternberg 8.5
7. Fuc kner 8.0
8-9. Brilowski 7.5
8-9. Wilde 7.5
10. Wittekopf 7.0
11. Dr. Wankin 6.5
12-13. Lüth 6.0
12-13. Strasding 6.0
14. Owen 5.5
15. Grünlaub 2.5
16. Feigensohn 2.0
Prizes (in <Rbl.>): 1st Arvid Kubbel (Petersburg) <150> and Baltic Champion, 2nd-3rd K Grünthal (Riga) and H Oehrn (Dorpat) sharing <100+70>, 4th-5th A Wait (Riga) and Dr. Blumenfeldt (Mitau) sharing <50+25>, 6th Baron Ungern-Sternberg of Werro (consolation prize) <10>. Kubbel scored +10 -1 =4 (losing to Wait), Grünthal +9 -2 =4 and Oehrn +8 -1 =6. The Minor tournament ended on Tuesday evening:
1. Friedrich Korn 4.0
2. Alexander Both 3.5
3. Herman Alperowitsch 2.5
4. J Tontego 2.0
Prizes (in <Rbl.>): Korn <35> and Both <25>. Mainly responsible for the arrangement of the tournament was E Korn senior. Source: Pages 227-228 of the July-August 1911 'Wiener Schachzeitung' * Conjecture: it seems that play commenced on April 10, with 15 rounds and a rest day on April 17 - this would mean play from April 10 to 16 and 18 to 25. |
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| Oct-10-14 | | Lovuschka: Inquiring on the murder of Arvid Kubbel, what information is available about the firing squad? Special interest goes to the name of the higher officials who ordererd the murder, but also the names of the people in that squad would be of interest. |
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Jun-25-20
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http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... [Event "Tournament-gandikap"]
[Site "St. Petersburg (Russia)"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Kubbel Arvid"]
[Black "Kamkin (URS)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.d3 Bg4 7.h3
Bh5 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.g4 Rg8 11.Kh1 Bg6 12.Nh2 Nd4 13.f4
exf4 14.Rxf4 c6 15.Qf1 Nxc2 16.Rxf6 Qe7 17.Rc1 Ne3 18.Qf4 Nxc4
19.dxc4 Bd4 20.Rxd6 Be5 21.Rxg6 Bxf4 22.Rxg8+ Kd7 23.Rd1+ Ke6
24.Rxa8 Qh4 25.Re8+ Kf6 26.Ne2 Be3 27.Rf1+ Kg7 28.Kg2 h5 29.Ng3
Qg5 30.Nxh5+ 1-0 |
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Jun-25-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... [Event "Tournament-A"]
[Site "Petrograd (Russia)"]
[Date "1916.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Travin (RUS)"]
[Black "Kubbel Arvid"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D34"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]
1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.g3 Be6 7.Bg2
Nf6 8.O-O Be7 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.a3 O-O 11.b4 Be7 12.Bf4 Rc8 13.Rc1
a5 14.b5 Na7 15.Be3 b6 16.Na4 Rxc1 17.Qxc1 Nxb5 18.Bxb6 Qa8 19.Bc5
Rc8 20.Nb6 Rxc5 21.Nxa8 Rxc1 22.Rxc1 Bxa3 23.Rb1 Bb4 24.Nb6 Nc3
25.Rb2 Nfe4 26.e3 Bc5 27.Nd4 a4 28.Bxe4 a3 29.Rc2 a2 30.Nb3 dxe4
31.Rxa2 Nxa2 32.Nxc5 1/2-1/2 |
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| Jun-27-22 | | lonchaney: Chess composer
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/meson/com... |
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Kibitzing
