Sep-28-06
 | | Phony Benoni: Martin Beheim, in his book "Chess With the Masters", tells a no doubt apocryphal story in which Koehnlein figured. There was a strong and boastful coffeehouse player named Burletski who agreed to play a six game match with Koehnlein. He approached the encounter with great confidence, but suprisingly enough Koehnlein won the first game. Said Berlitski: "I made a stupid mistake." Koehnlein won the second game. Burletski: "You can't win every game." Koehnlein won the third game. Burletski: "I'm not in form today." Koehnlein won the fourth game. Burletski "You know, he's not a bad player." Koehnlein won the fifth game. Burletski: "I've definitely underestimated the man." Koehnlein won the sixth game. Burletski: "I have to admit it. The man is my equal." |
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| Dec-15-07 | | Karpova: This game Alekhine vs Kohnlein, 1908 was his only loss in the <Hauptturnier A> - a tournament with 14 players and won by Koehnlein. He was a composer also. Koehnlein lived from 1879 to 1916 and died in the battle of Somme. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Jan-05-08 | | whiteshark: "...<Köhnlein>, Reallehrer in Nürnberg. Klein, zierlich, gutmütig aussehend, mit martialisch aussehendem Schnurrbart. Ein ganz bedeutender Problemkomponist. Grundzug seines Charakters - äußerste <Friedfertigkeit>. Gefallen - welche Ironie des Schicksals - bei einem Sturmangriff im Westen." Aaron Niemzowitsch, <Baltische Zeitung, 27.November 1918> |
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| Feb-10-08 | | whiteshark: Friedrich Köhnlein * 12.Dec 1879 † 05.Jul 1916
It is said that he composed about 150 chess problems in his leisure hours. |
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| Mar-14-08 | | whiteshark: Here is a nice miniature by Friedrich Köhnlein:
Akademischer Schachklub München, 1906 
click for larger view White to move mates in three |
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| Mar-14-08 | | vonKrolock: Two flights given and excellent variety - a thing of beauty |
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| Jun-28-08 | | whiteshark: Here is another 'tricky' problem by Friedrich Köhnlein: Münchener N. Nachrichten, 1908
click for larger viewWhite to move mates in two! |
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| Aug-10-08 | | whiteshark: Here is a (simple looking) miniature by Friedrich Köhnlein with some fine mates: Deutsches Wochenschach, 1916
click for larger viewWhite to move mates in four! |
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| Aug-10-08 | | DoctorD: Don't like the dual 2. Kxf6/exf6 in the #4. Also the obvious 1. Kf5 is the key, not a horrible drawback but aesthetically - pah! Now 1. Kg5! f6+ 2. K~, I could go for that. Of course, for 1916.... |
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| Aug-10-08 | | DoctorD: This example of an Allumwandlung, from Munchener Neueste Nachrichten, 1903, is impressive, even though it starts with a check. It is the separation effect, a different promotion based on black's reply, that really is nice. White to play and mate in three
click for larger view |
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| Aug-10-08 | | DoctorD: Another neat example by Koehnlein of an AUW:
Deutsches Wochenschach 1903
click for larger view |
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| Aug-11-08 | | whiteshark: "Allumwandlung (German for "complete promotion", sometimes shortened to AUW) is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution, the pawn (or sometimes pawns) is promoted variously to a knight, bishop, rook and queen." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allumw...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allumw...
http://www.chessville.com/Wong/Allu...
http://chessproblem.net/viewtopic.p...
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| Dec-12-11 | | whiteshark: R.I.P., Fritz. |
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| Aug-12-12 | | whiteshark: Bio:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedr... |
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| Dec-12-13 | | whiteshark: What a sad day again. <R.I.P., Fritz.> |
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| Jan-28-14 | | Karpova: 28-board Simul in Nuremberg on September 12, 1910. Koehnlein had Black at every 2nd board. He began at <9 Uhr> and played pretty fast. After 20 min, he had finished already 7 rounds - about 220 moves. A strong player resigned already after the 14th round, finished after 1 hour and 22 min. All games were finished at 01:35 (I guess it lasted from 09:00 to 13:35, but maybe also 21:00 to 01:35, the text is ambiguous). The final score was +19 -5 =4.
Winners: Zimmer, P Tarrasch, Sprecher, Lauter and Büller. Draws: Vötter, Rohrer, Seyboth and Fischer.
Source: Page 40 of the January 1911 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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Mar-28-15
 | | MissScarlett: <The loss of c.60,000 British casualties on 1 July, was not repeated and in the fighting from 2-13 July. The British lost another c.25,000 men, a change in the rate of loss from c.60,000 - 2,083 per day; German casualties from 1-10 July were 40,187. The effect of the battle on the German defenders, has received less attention in English-language writing. The strain imposed by the British attacks after 1 July and the French advance on the south bank, led General von Below on 3 July, to issue an order of the day forbidding voluntary withdrawals ("The enemy should have to carve his way over heaps of corpses.") after his Chief of Staff General Gronert and Von Pannewitz the XVII Corps commander, were sacked for ordering the corps to withdraw to the third position.> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle... |
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| Dec-12-15 | | whiteshark: <R.I.P., Fritz.> Sigh |
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Dec-12-15
 | | perfidious: The tale of Burletski, even if fanciful, is droll indeed--rather reminds this observer of Tarrasch's 'sea air' alibi for his heavy defeat at the hands of Lasker or Larsen's shellacking by Fischer being due to the hot, dry summer of Denver that year. After all, as noted by Larsen, Fischer was only up in their prior serious encounters in decisive games by 3-2. |
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