Herbert Küchler

Herbert Küchler (born December 30, 1908 in Chemnitz , † September 2, 1964 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German chess player, chess composer and chess editor.

Chess composition

Küchler took his first steps in the Chemnitzer Wochenschach , the organ of the Chemnitz district in the Saxon Chess Federation, which appeared in the Allgemeine Zeitung in Chemnitz. Due to illness, he had to stay away from competitive chess in 1953 and since then has dealt with chess composition more intensively.

Since 1926 he has published around 400 chess problems, mostly two-move and multi-move and some self-mate problems . He often broke new ground.

Herbert Küchler
Schach , 1961
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

Mate in 2 moves

The Küchler theme is presented here.

Solution:

White has a battery , that is, in the position by a train of Te5 is a deduction chess possible. However, an immediate deduction at Kxg5 fails and White cannot checkmate on the second move. This battery is released with the pull of the key. To put it simply, this is the Küchler theme .

1. Qf7! threatens Dxf5 matt
1 ... Txg5 second Te4 matt (Lf5 is tied )
1. ... 2. Lxe5 Txg4 matt
1 ... Kxe5 second Lb8 matt
1 ... Kxg5 second Txg4 matt

Theorist and author

Two essays received attention in specialist circles, 1955 change of parade in the Dreizüger and its thematic return and 1961 battery waiver in logical form . This battery waiver was later referred to as the Küchler issue .

In 1960, together with Helmut Klug and Manfred Zucker, he founded a chess corner in the regional newspaper Volksstimme (Karl-Marx-Stadt) , which merged on January 1, 1963 with the Zwickau district newspaper Freie Presse . With its weekly chess problems , the Free Press became known around the world, especially between 1970 and 1990.

Chess player

At a young age, Küchler played for the Chemnitz chess club Curt von Bardeleben . He was multiple Chemnitz and Lübeck city ​​champion. In the North Market Tournament in Hamburg in 1942 he was third behind Alfred Brinckmann .

A game fragment of a tournament game for the championship of Chemnitz and a game from the Saxony championship in 1950 have come down to us from the post-war period.

Private

Küchler was a locksmith by trade, worked in Lübeck from 1936, but returned to his hometown with his family in 1945. He played the violin. Most recently he worked as industrial security in an energy supply company because of a heart condition. He died as a result of an accident.

Web links

• Compositions by Herbert Küchler on the PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Zimmer: H. Küchler, Thum / Wolkenstein - von Bardeleben (Chemnitz), board 5 . In: Chemnitzer Allgemeine Zeitung , March 20, 1927
2. ↑ Schach-Express , March 2, 1948, p. 92
3. ^ Küchler - Bosse, Meißen, 1950 . In: Der Schach-Spiegel , No. 11, 4 (1950), p. 169
4. ↑ Herbert Grasemann : We introduce: Herbert Küchler, Schach , December 1st issue , 1954, p. 314f (with portrait)
5. ^ Gerhard Kaiser : Obituary in Schach , Issue 10, 1964, p. 316