Eduard Dyckhoff

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Eduard Dyckhoff (born November 14, 1880 in Augsburg ; † March 2, 1949 in Bad Tölz ) was a German chess player who was best known for his success as a correspondence chess master .

Professional career

Dyckhoff received his doctorate in law from the University of Würzburg with the grade “ summa cum laude ”. He later worked in several legal professions as a public prosecutor, judge, company lawyer and lawyer. In the last years of his life he worked as a judge again.

Close chess

Dyckhoff learned chess at the age of 14. He spent his apprenticeship at the Augsburg chess club . In 1900 he took part in the main tournament A of the Congress of the German Chess Federation in Munich. In 1913 he achieved the title of Bavarian master by winning the main tournament in Kitzingen . Even in later decades he remained active in local chess. In 1941 he won the "Old Men Tournament" of the Congress of the Bavarian Chess Federation in Starnberg .

Correspondence chess

His real passion was correspondence chess. In 1895 Dyckhoff played his first long-distance games. Since the tournament was not organized at the time, it was a private game. After the First World War he paused, but began correspondence chess again in 1929. He participated several times successfully in the federal championships of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (IFSB). Because of the international participants, these tournaments were unofficially considered European championships. Dyckhoff won these tournaments in 1929, 1930 and 1931. Then he was twice runner-up, in 1932 behind Hans Müller and in 1936/37 behind Milan Vidmar . Of the fifty games in these tournaments against the best correspondence chess players in Europe, he won 29 and did not lose a single one.

From 1935 to 1939 he successfully represented Germany at the correspondence chess Olympiad on the first board. Dyckhoff last started after the Second World War at the correspondence chess Olympiad in 1948, but he could not finish the tournament for health reasons.

Chess journalist and official

As a journalist and official, Dyckhoff was also active in chess throughout his life. He successively headed the editorial team of the Academic Chess Papers (1900 to 1903) and the Süddeutsche Schachblätter (organ of the Bavarian Chess Federation), which existed in 1907/08. He later edited the Fernschach magazine from 1930 to 1934 . In the meantime, he also served a total of five years (1928 to 1933) at the Munich radio station as head of chess radio .

His increasing turn to correspondence chess can also be seen in the development of his association activities. After the First World War he was chairman of the Bavarian Chess Federation from 1920 to 1924 in a time of economic hardship. After 1929 he was a defining figure and board member at IFSB for ten years.

Champion of the correspondence chess idea

His best-known and at the same time most controversial article appeared in the journal Fernschach in June 1929. Under the programmatic headline "Fernschach - das Idealschach", Dyckhoff advocated correspondence chess, which at the time was still somewhat ridiculed. Dyckhoff wrote the telling sentence: "For the remote player, life is literally an uninterrupted game of chess."

A few years after his death, the Association of German Correspondence Chess Friends (BdF) organized the Dr. Dyckhoff correspondence chess memorial tournament from 1954 to 1956 . Among the participants were the strongest correspondence chess players in the world. 1860 players from 33 nations competed in several performance classes. The winner of the “invitation group of the master class” was the young Lothar Schmid .

Works

  • Correspondence chess short circuits , Caissa's Small Chess Row, Barkhuis, Düsseldorf 1948

literature

  • "In memoriam Dr. Eduard Dyckhoff ”, in: Hans-Werner von Massow and Eberhardt Wilhelm (eds.): Dr. Dyckhoff correspondence chess memorial tournament 1954/56 . 2nd edition, Schachverlag Manfred Mädler, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 7–8. ISBN 3-925691-00-6
  • Alfred Diel : The Bavarian Chess Federation. Departure into the third millennium , Beyer, Hollfeld 2000, p. 110. ISBN 3888052912

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chess Congress in Munich . In: Wiener Schachzeitung . No. 10/11 , 1907, pp. 331 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed June 9, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Printed in: Hans-Werner von Massow and Eberhardt Wilhelm (eds.): Dr.-Dyckhoff-Fernschach-Gedenkturnier 1954/56 . 2nd edition, Schachverlag Manfred Mädler, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 15-16.
  3. ↑ Hans-Werner von Massow and Eberhardt Wilhelm (eds.): Dr.-Dyckhoff-Fernschach-Gedenkturnier 1954/56 . 2nd edition, Schachverlag Manfred Mädler, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Dyckhoff, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1949
Place of death Bad Tölz