Bo Lindgren

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Bo Lindgren (left, with Norman Macleod ) at the final banquet of the 1990 PCCC conference in Benidorm

Bo Waldemar Lindgren (born February 26, 1927 in Lidingö ; † June 4, 2011 ibid) was a well-known Swedish chess composer .

Chess composition

Lindgren has published more than 500 chess problems of various genres since 1942. In 1966 he was appointed International Chess Composition Referee . In 1980 he was already a grandmaster for chess composition .

Lindgren composed among other things in the Bohemian style . The following task shows a task with six - fold sub-transformation into knight or rook.

Bo Lindgren
Tidskrift för Schack, 1959
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7th Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess rlt45.svg 7th
6th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess nlt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess kdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess qdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess rlt45.svg Chess rdt45.svg 5
4th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess ndt45.svg 4th
3 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess ndt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 3
2 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess blt45.svg Chess blt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 2
1 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess klt45.svg 1
  a b c d e f G H  
Self-mate in seven moves

Template: checkerboard / maintenance / new

Solution:
A
1. g7 – g8S + Kf6 – e6
2. f7 – f8S + Ke6xd6 2.… Rb8xf8 3. e7xf8S + Ke6xd6 4. d7 – d8T + etc. as in B
3. e7 – e8S + Kd6xc6 3.… Rb8xe8 4. d7xe8S + Kd6xc6 . c7 – c8T + etc. as in B
4. d7 – d8S + Kc6 – b6 4.… Rb8xd8 4. c7xd8S + Kc6 – b6 5. b7 – b8T + etc. as in B
5. c7 – c8S + Rb8xc8 5.… Kb6 – a6 6 . Tg5-g6 + Sh4xg6 matt
6. b7xc8S + KB6-a6 Now the lady tied .
7. Tg5-g6 + Sh4xg6 Matt
B
1. ... Tb8xg8
second fxg8S + Kf6 e6
3. e7 + E8T Ke6xd6
4. d7 + d8t Kd6xc6
5. c7-C8T + KC6-b6
6. b7-B8T + KB6-a6
7. Tg5- g6 + Sh4xg6 matt

editor

From 1952 to 1957, Lindgren was the editor of Schackbladet's tasks department . From 1966 he worked at Stella Polaris .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kjell Widlert: Obituary. ( Memento of November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Uralsky Problemist. June 8, 2011
  2. ↑ International referees for chess compositions
  3. ↑ Grand master for chess compositions
  4. ^ Jirí Veselý, Jan Kalendovský, Bedrich Formánek: Mala encyklopedie šachu. Olympia, Praha, Šport, Bratislava, 1989, p. 197
  5. ↑ Wladyslaw Litmanowicz, Jerzy Gizycki: Szachy od A do Z , Volume 1. Warsaw 1986, ISBN 83-217-2481-7 , p. 524 (Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Lindgren, Bo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindgren, Bo Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lidingö
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2011
Place of death Lidingö