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This is from http://www.schachclub-badsoden.de/g....

The position made me look up the following problem by A. Kraemer from 1955:

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Leise flehen meine Lieder
Durch die Nacht zu dir,

In den stillen Hain hernieder,

Liebchen, komm zu mir!

Flüsternd schlanke Wipfel rauschen
In des Mondes Licht,
Des Verräters feindlich Lauschen
Fürchte, Holde, nicht.

Hörst die Nachtigallen schlagen?
Ach! sie flehen dich,
Mit der Töne süßen Klagen
Flehen sie für mich.

Sie verstehn des Busens Sehnen,
Kennen Liebesschmerz,
Rühren mit den Silbertönen
Jedes weiche Herz/Lewitt/Keidanski.

Laß auch dir die Brust bewegen,

"Mondscheinsonate" <Moonlight Sonata>,

Rellstab was born in Berlin-Schöneberg, and came from an old, respected Berlin literary and chess playing family in which the first name Louis had a long tradition. Even his famous great-grandfather had that name and he was in the first half of the 19th century, a famous novelist, who among other things, published a music magazine and wrote for the (Berlin newspaper of record) "Vossischen Zeitung". He composed the verses: "Leise flehten meine Lieder" ("Gently goes my song's entreaty"), which were later set to music by Schubert (D. 957/4).

Both Rellstab grandfather and his father were strong chess player. His grandfather was a student of Johannes Metger, while his father, a physicist was a strong club player in Berlin. At the age of eleven, Rellstab had learned to play chess. In the Twenties, he lived for some time with his parents in Holland, then came back to Berlin. He studied mathematics and physics in Berlin and Munich, and was soon graduated to become a chess devote. His entry into the Berlin Chess world of the "Roaring Twenties" brought him together with the most famous masters of that time, many of whom lived in the European chess metropolis. Rellstab, at this time, was very successful and won tournaments in: Berlin, Zopot, Stuttgart and he won the 1942 German championship in Bad Oeynhausen. In the same year, he was successful at the European Championships (8th) in Munich and defeated the world champion Alekhine - Rellstab vs Alekhine, 1942. After World War II, he went to Hamburg, where he wrote in the chess column of the "Hamburger Abendblatt", worked as a chess journalist and also as a secretary at the DSB .

An anecdote from a friend of mine in Ulster:

<I had a summer job during my real work holidays years ago, helping on a tanker [a large lorry].

The driver had a two way radio, and his boss was called Pat Knipe.

He would call up, "Come in fat $h¡te". And every time Pat would reply, "This is Pat Knipe".

With the crackles and engine noise it really sounded like <fat $h¡te>.

We spent hours dreaming up reasons to call Pat up on the radio, just to hear him say it and laughing our heads off when he did, and we weren't no schoolkids then I think I had 2 kids or maybe more.>