Alois Wotawa

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Alois Wotawa, ca.1920

Alois Wotawa (born June 11, 1896 in Vienna , † April 12, 1970 ibid) was an Austrian chess composer and public prosecutor . He lived and worked in Vienna. Wotawa died in 1970, two years after his closest friend Josef Halumbirek and his wife died within a few weeks .

composition

Wotawa composed more than 350 studies and published mainly in German-speaking countries. Besides that, Wotawa also created some problems. He described them as "botched finals". Around 1960 he became friends with Friedrich Chlubna , who was just beginning to compose. Most of Wotawa's studies appeared in the Deutsche Schachzeitung , in which Josef Halumbirek , a friend of Wotawa's, acted as the clerk in the endgame section.

In 1966 Alois Wotawa was named International Master of Chess Composition by FIDE . In the following study, white finds his salvation with a highly unusual move.

Alois Wotawa
Austrian Chess Newspaper, 1952
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White to move holds a draw

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Solution:
1. Nf7 – e5 Td7 – d2 +
2. Kf2 – e3 Td2 – e2 +
3. Ke3 – d4 Re2xe5
4. Rf1 – f6 !! Double attack on La6 and Re5. If Black saves both pieces with 4.… Re5 – a5, he will lose his pawn after 5. Rf6 – g6. There remains only the fourth ... g7xf6 stalemate .

Wotawa worked as a public prosecutor in Vienna in the field of white-collar crime.

Works

  • Alois Wotawa: ... and will die for it . OHlwd, Vienna 1949.
  • Alois Wotawa: In search of clues with chess pieces. 150 endgame studies . de Gruyter, Berlin 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source here and below: Friedrich Chlubna : An Artist has left us . In: EG , No. 20, pp. 119 to 121st August 1970 (as PDF in the EG archive ( memento of the original from 3rd December 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. Available) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gadycosteff.com
  2. ↑ International masters for chess compositions
personal data
SURNAME Wotawa, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess composer and public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1970
Place of death Vienna