Paul Heuäcker
Paul Heuäcker (born December 16, 1899 in Hamburg , † July 10, 1969 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was one of the most important German chess composers . He mainly wrote endgame studies .
Life
Born in Hamburg, Heuäcker grew up in Breslau and completed a commercial apprenticeship. Then he came to Berlin and published his first study. At the end of 1923 he moved to Vienna and soon made the acquaintance of Josef Halumbirek , Josef Krejcik , Hans Müller , Georg Becker and Alois Wotawa .
After his simultaneous tour through Germany, he worked as a tax officer in Wroclaw from 1940. During the Second World War he was used as a soldier in Italy. After the war he moved to Gößmannsberg near Forchheim in Franconian Switzerland. In 1949 he moved to Bad Homburg, where he lived until the end of his life.
The study composer
Heuäcker was inspired to compose chess when he was studying the book "150 Endgame Studies " by Henri Rinck in 1922 . As a result, he published over a hundred studies.
In 1989 Gerald Braunberger remembered the composer with a book about Paul Heuäcker's life's work.
Neue Freie Presse , January 5, 1930
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This is one of Heuäcker's most famous endgame studies. With it he brings an idea of the French Anatole Mouterde (1874–1942) from 1914 in miniature form .
White wants to convert his h6-pawn. Immediate 1. h6 – h7? fails on e5 – e4! The black bishop observes the conversion field h8 and must therefore be switched off beforehand. This can be achieved with accurate play by blocking the e5 pawn. If the white king were one square closer to the black bishop, for example on c2, 1. Kc2 – d3 would already go. 1. Kc1 – c2 is too slow because Black would come to 1.… e5 – e4. Therefore the black bishop has to be kept busy to enable the move at speed.
Solution:
1. Bb8 – a7! Distraction Bd4 – a1
The bishop has to keep an eye on the h8 conversion square: 1.… Bxa7? 2. h7. But on a1 he comes dangerously close to the white king.
2. Kc1 – b1 La1 – c3 3. Kb1 – c2 Bc3 – a1
The king came to c2 at high speed, but the bishop was able to escape from the stroke area (4. Kc2 – d3? E5 – e4 +!).
4. Ba7 – d4 !! Steering La1xd4
Under bishop sacrifice the starting position is reached with wKc2. After 4.… exd4 5. Kd3 the pawn is blocked. 5. Kc2 – d3 Bd4 – a1 (5.… e4 + 6. Kxd4 Kg5 6. h7 Kf4 7. h8D and wins) 6. Kd3 – e4 With the blockade of the pawn on e5, the bishop is eliminated and against the conversion to h6– h7 – h8D there is no defense, White wins.
The runner's steering has not changed anything in the black position, after the fourth move it still has the same values as at the beginning. But White has achieved a decisive improvement in position (leading the king to c2). Black couldn't do anything about it because he was constantly being threatened. The maneuver can therefore also be interpreted as an employment control.
Tournament chess
Less known, but still successful, Heuäcker also played tournament chess. He preferred combinations , positional weaknesses were rather indifferent to him. He set the artistic value of a game far above practical necessities. He won the aforementioned book of endgame studies as a prize for first place in a club tournament of the Friedenauer Chess Society. In 1927 he reached a draw in a competition with Grünfeld . From 1933 he made a living from simultaneous events in Germany. In 1934 he won a competition against Sonja Graf in Hamburg with a clear 6-0. 1940 to 1942 he was three times city champion of Wroclaw. From 1947 to 1949 he won the Upper Franconian championship three times. For his youth work in the chess club VFB 1861 Forchheim, he received the golden badge of honor. In 1949 he took 14th place out of 56 participants in the master tournament of the Bavarian Chess Congress and received the title "Bavarian Master 1949". In 1951 and 1952 he won the city championship in Frankfurt am Main .
The journalist
From 1949 Paul Heuäcker published in the German chess sheets and in the German chess newspaper .
literature
- A composer trio in: Schach-Echo, February 20, 1954, p. 64.
- Gerald Braunberger: Fantasy in the Endgame - Paul Heuäcker's Chess Studies . Schachverlag Arno Nickel, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1989. ISBN 3-924833-15-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Heuäcker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Compositions by Paul Heuäcker on the Schwalbe's PDB server
- About the Heuäcker book ( Memento from November 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mouterde's task, published in Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten , is reprinted with the solution in der Schwalbe , Vol. XXVIII, Issue 233, October 2008, p. 618 (No. 8, online ). It needs four more stones and has a non-thematic side game. Since Heuäcker has adopted the idea and scheme unchanged from Mouterde, the task should actually bear the note "after A. Mouterde".
- ↑ Frankfurt City Championship - Honor Roll
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heuäcker, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chess study composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1969 |
| Place of death | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |