Joseph Peckover

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Joseph Edmund Peckover (born November 15, 1896 in London , † April 16, 1982 in New York City ) was the first major study composer in the United States .

Life

Peckover's education went through Great Britain , France and Switzerland . In World War I he served from 1916 to 1919 as an officer in the infantry in the British Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Palestine . He came back to London for health reasons, but soon went to Canada and moved to New York City in the 1920s. During World War II he served in the US armed forces . He was a portrait artist, but found time for his diverse interests. He was one of the leading cricket authorities in the United States .

Chess composition

Peckover's first study was made in a British military hospital in Cairo and appeared in 1916 in the newspaper The Egyptian Gazette , which was then still published in Alexandria . From 1921 Peckover reactivated the chess columns of two newspapers in which some of his studies also appeared. He did a lot for the development of chess study in the United States.

Peckover published the majority of his more than 60 studies from the late 1950s. From 1961 to 1965 he was an editor in the study department of American Chess Quarterly magazine . His studies are usually characterized by an airy structure and pointed, subtle play.

Joseph Peckover
Problem, 1958
1st Prize
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White to move holds a draw

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Solution:

The constant threat to convert the pawn maintains the balance in this position. This is done by continuously moving important rows of the rook with the white bishop on the squares f6, d8 and g5.
1. Kc8 – d8! Rb6 – d6 + There is a constant threat of c8D.
2. Kd8 – e7 Rd6 – c6
3. Ke7 – d7 Rc6 – h6! Now 4. c8D is refuted by Be6 + along with Bxc8 and Rxh4.
4. Bh4 – f6! La2 – b1! After 4.… Rxf6 the rook comes into the area of ​​action of the white king 5. c8D Be6 + 6. Ke7 Bxc8 7. Kxf6 draw.
5. Kd7 – e6 Rh6 – h5! 5. c8D? loses because of Bf5 + 6. Kd8 Bxc8 7. Kxc8 Rxf6
6. Bf6 – g5! Rh5 – h8! 6.… Rxg5 fails on 7. c8D Bf5 + 8. Kf6 Bxc8 9. Kxg5
7. Bg5 – d8 Rh8 – h5
8. Bd8 – g5! Draw by repetition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian Stevenson: Peckover and Chekhover. The BDS website, July 6, 2009
  2. ↑ F. Bondarenko : Petschalnaja west. In: Šahs, issue 20, October 1982, p. 16
  3. ↑ F. Bondarenko: Sowremmenny schachmatny etjud. Kiev, Sdorowja, 1987, p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Peckover, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peckover, Joseph Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American study composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1982
Place of death New York City