Franz Sackmann (chess composer)

Franz Sackmann

Franz Sackmann (born July 12, 1888 in Brannenburg , † February 22, 1927 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German chess player and chess composer .

Sackmann studied at the Technical University of Munich and then worked in Eßlingen am Neckar , Charlottenburg and as a senior engineer in the ironworks in Kaiserslautern .

Sackmann found chess early on. He reached a considerable playing strength and played mostly on the second board in the Kaiserslautern chess club. However, he paid particular attention to chess composition . From 1906 onwards he composed around 200 three-course and multi-course and over 100 studies , and in two decades he achieved remarkable achievements. He owed the greatest suggestions to the pioneers of the new German school Johannes Kohtz and Carl Kockelkorn , as well as master Fritz Köhnlein from Nuremberg. The combination Sackmann was named after him: A multi-step lead of a figure to a finish line, whereby a selection is made from several fields of the finish line.

Franz Sackmann
Rigaer Tageblatt, 1912

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move achieves a draw

Solution:
1. Bd1 – b3! c4-c3
2. Lb3xa2 c3-c2
3. La2-b1 c2-c1D (T) patt .
Also, a lower transformation into a knight or bishop does not win the game because in the resulting minor piece endgame no mat can be enforced.

As a student, Sackmann worked on the monthly academic magazine for chess . After only one year of membership (joining in the winter semester of 1906/07), he was elected president of the Munich Academic Chess Club on April 30, 1907 . He played a major role in his famous Festschrift, published in 1911. He was the editor of the chess composition section in the Süddeutsche Schachblättern (1908) and in the Deutsche Schachblättern (1909–1911).

In 1924, Sackmann received a medal from the Meißen from the German Chess Federation "for his great successes in the problem area, especially for his award in the Frankfurt problem tournament with first prizes for 2, 3 and 4-moveers, an unprecedented achievement" Porcelain Manufactory.

Sackmann died of flu at the age of 38. The politician Franz Sackmann (1920–2011) was his son.

Works

• Franz Sackmann: The peasant conversion into a tower or a runner as a study idea. In: J. Schorr (Ed.), Schachkongreß Teplitz-Schönau 1922 , Teplitz-Schönau-Turn, 1923, pp. 513-533.

Web links

• Compositions by Franz Sackmann on the PDB server

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ Hermann Weißauer : Das Pfälzer Dreigestirn ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Club newspaper of the chess club SV Fischbach 1994. 
2. ↑ Manfred Zucker : Great German Problem Master (33) . In: Schach , February 1996, p. 76.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Schachzeitung , No. 3, March 1927, pp. 74/75 - obituary by Otto Dehler
4. ↑ Deutsche Schachblätter , No. 6, June 1924, p. 162.