Herbert Ahues

Herbert Siegfried Oskar Ahues (born March 2, 1922 in Berlin ; † July 11, 2015 in Bremen ) was a German chess composer and chess author.

Life

In his last collection of exercises, Ahues noted:

“The game of chess had a huge impact on my life even before I was born. My parents, both of whom are chess enthusiasts, met each other in the Berlin chess society. The result was that I saw the light of day on March 2, 1922 in Berlin. A few years later my father, Carl Ahues , not only won the title of Master of Germany, but also developed into a well-known international chess master ... "

At the beginning of the Second World War , Ahues studied law in Königsberg ; he was drafted into the armed forces at the age of 19. After the war he became a teacher in Bremen.

Chess composition

Herbert Ahues composed almost exclusively Zweizüger, he was one of the most productive German Zweizüger composers. He wrote more than 4000 assignments, 410 were awarded prizes, many published in FIDE albums . Here he got 96.33 points. For this he was awarded the title of International Master of Chess Composition by FIDE in 1976 and the title of Grand Master of Chess Composition in 1989 . As early as 1962 he was appointed International Chess Composition Judge.

Herbert Ahues
German chess sheets
1983/84, 1st 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

Mate in 2 moves

Solution: 1. Rg8 – g5
fail
? ( threatens Nc7 – e6 mate ) Bg2 – h3!
1. Rg8 – g4? (threatens Rb3xd3 mate) Bg2 – f1!
1. Rg8 – g3? (threatens Qg1xe3 mate) Bg2 – f3!
These moves by the white rook block the way for your own queen to g7, which is why black Bg2 can move without disadvantage.
It is therefore correct

1. Rg8 – a8! puts black in a tight spot .
1.… Bg2- ~ 2. Qg1 – g7 mate 1.… Ba7 –
b8 2. Re8 – a4 mate 1.… Nb1 –
c3 2. Rb3 – b4 mate
1.… Nb1 – a3 or Nb1 – d2 2. Qg1– a1
mate 1.… d3 – d2 2. Qg1xe3 mate

Groundbreaking in 1978 was his publication White Line Combinations with Thematic Seduction as a special edition of the magazine Die Schwalbe , in which he systematically classified the field of line combinations. In 1988 Ahues published 600 double moves in his work Meine Beste Schachprobleme. 600 selected two-moveers and 3 three-moveers .

literature

• Herbert Ahues: My best chess problems. 600 selected two-moveers and 3 three-moveers. Edited by Winfried E. Kuhn and Gerhard Murkisch. Alfa-Druck, Göttingen 1988.
• Herbert Ahues: My best chess problems: 750 selected two-moves and 4 three-moves . Nightrider Unlimited, Treuenhagen 2006, ISBN 3-935586-10-8 . (Kuhn Murkisch series; No. 34)

Web links

• Compositions by Herbert Ahues on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld : The Oxford Companion to Chess , Second Edition, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 4
2. ↑ Herbert Ahues: My best chess problems . 2nd Edition. Nightrider Unlimited, Göttingen 2006, p. 8
3. ↑ Wilfried Seehofer: Herbert Ahues * 2.3.1922 † 11.7.2015 , harmonie-aktiv, 9/2015, p. 87
4. ↑ Grand master for chess compositions
5. ↑ International judges for chess compositions