Comins Mansfield

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Comins Mansfield

Comins Mansfield (born June 14, 1896 in Witheridge ( North Devon ), † March 28, 1984 in Paignton ) was an English chess composer .

Chess composition

Mansfield learned the age of nine to play chess from his father, the national active correspondence chess played. Mansfield published his first assignments at the age of 15. Within 65 years he composed around 980 two-moves . He won more than 100 first prizes. His main merit was his contribution to the development of the classic two-move in the 20th century.

In 1972 he became the grandmaster of chess composition . This made him one of the first four composers to be awarded this title by FIDE . He was the very first British grandmaster.

His compositions are characterized by original ideas, strict economy, clarity and expressiveness of thought. A two-pass topic bears his name:

A white battery is controlled by two black figures. If one of them ties itself up, the battery can dull while switching off the other.

Comins Mansfield
Meredith Tournament, Australia, 1928
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Mate in 2 moves

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Solution:

1. Qg4 – e2 (threatens Qxe7 mate )
1.… Nc5 – b7 (a6, a4, b3, e6, e4) 2. Qe2 – b5 mate. Secondary parades of the jumper follow.
1. ... Nc5-d3 second Ld5-c6 matt
1 ... Nc5-d7 2. Ld5-f7 matt
1 ... e7-e6 (e5) 2. Ta8xd8 matt

The functionary

From 1949 to 1951 Mansfield was President of the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) , from 1963 to 1971 President of the Permanent Commission on Chess Composition at FIDE ( PCCC ) .

Private

His unusual first name Comins is a tribute to the good work of two Miss sisters . Comins , who raised his father, goes back to his mother's decision not to use long names.

Comins Mansfield had three children.

literature

  • Alain Campbell White: A genius of Two-Movers. C.Mansfield . 1936
  • Comins Mansfield: Adventures in Composition . 1942
  • Brian Harley: The modern Two-Move chess problem . London 1958
  • Barry Peter Barnes: Comins Mansfield, Chess-Problem by a Grandmaster . British Chess Problem Society, 1976, ISBN 0-905479-00-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow u. a .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary . Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 264 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Grand master for chess compositions
personal data
SURNAME Mansfield, Comins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Witheridge
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1984
Place of death Paignton