Heinrich Cordes (chess composer)

Heinrich Cordes

Heinrich Cordes (born October 10, 1852 in Altenhundem , † April 24, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German chess composer and writer.

Chess composition

First and foremost, Cordes was a successful solver, he often found secondary solutions and won various solution tournaments. He probably only composed occasionally. His interesting study made him known, in which a runner prevails against a lady with a waiting train . It became the starting point for the idea of mutual enforcement .

Heinrich Cordes

The figure configuration was taken up in studies by Amelung in 1895 , by Kaminer in 1925 , by Gasparjan in 1934 , in 1971 by Rusinek and in 1985 by Alexej Kotow.

Heinrich Cordes
Rigaer Tageblatt , 1895
2nd prize

	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 moves and wins

Solution:

1. Ba5 – c7! En3-e1 + On the first ... De3xf2 follows the second Kh1-h2 g5-g4 3. lc7-d8 +
2 Kh1-h2 De1xf2
3. lc7-d6 waiting move Df2-f4 +
4. g2-g3 + Df4xg3 +
5. Ld6xg3 pattern Matt

Cordes later varied his idea again. He also published some chess exercises in the German weekly chess and in the German chess newspaper.

Cordes farm in Altenhundem around 1895. Today the western part of the town hall is located here.

Life

Cordes was born the son of a farmer. In 1868 and 1869 he completed the lower and upper secondary in Altenhundem. He later graduated from high school in Paderborn.

In 1874 Cordes came to Berlin to study. Then he returned to his homeland.

Cordes came to Berlin from Elberfeld as a railway construction inspector between 1892 and 1894 and immediately moved to Grunewald . He was a royal councilor and most recently a secret building officer and head of the main railway workshop in Grunewald in Halensee . In the autumn of 1902 he had an accident on a new locomotive on a test drive between the stations in Charlottenburg and Grunewald .

Writer and poet

At a young age, Cordes immersed himself in the legends of his ancestors. In Cordes' estate you can find unpublished stories such as The Divining Rod or Glockenguß zu Attendorn as well as haunted stories, historical ballads and poems.

After his accident in which his right arm was amputated, he begins to learn to write with his left hand.

On the sick bed he remembers the legends of his homeland, and his main work “Sauerland, you dreamers” is created. It describes how things were in the Sauerland 1000 years ago.

Works

• Heinrich Cordes: Trade routes and water connections from Hankau to the interior of China. Berlin, Mittler and Son, 1899
• Heinrich Cordes: Sauerland, you dreamer. Paderborn, Bonifacius-Dr., 1906, 115 p .; 2nd edition 1928; 3rd edition Attendorn, Cordes, 1981, 97 pp.

Publications about Cordes

• FA Groeteken: Heinrich Cordes. A poet's life in the house of the Sauerland. in: Olper Heimatbl., 8, 1931, pp. 186–188
• Jochen Krause: People from home. Part I (1 to 33). AY-Verlag, Olpe 1987, pp. 133-137, ISBN 3-922659-77-2
• Walter Gödden ; Iris Nölle-Hornkamp (Ed.): Westphalian Author Lexicon 1850–1900. Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997, p. 135

Web links

• On March 23, 1925, Werkstattweg in Charlottenburg was renamed Cordesstrasse after him .
• Literature by and about Heinrich Cordes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Compositions by Heinrich Cordes on the PDB server
• Heinrich Cordes in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in: Deutsches Wochenschach , May 13, 1917
2. ↑ Rigaer Tageblatt , 1895, 2nd price
3. ↑ Friedrich Amelung: Reciproker Tempozugzwang . In: Deutsche Schachzeitung , 51 (9), Sept. 1897, p. 257 f.
4. ↑ 1050. German weekly chess , 1908
5. ↑ Cordesstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
6. ↑ Deutsches Wochenschach and Berliner Schachzeitung No. 40, October 5, 1902, p. 331 ( Memento of July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) /