Ignace Vandecasteele

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Ignace Vandecasteele at an ARVES lecture on the occasion of the PCCC meeting in Rotterdam in 1991 .

Ignace Marie Joseph Thérès Corneille Vandecasteele (born October 26, 1926 in Mortsel ; † May 31, 2018 in Antwerp ) was one of the most successful Flemish study composers .

Through the book Schaakstukken spelen U voor he got to know the aesthetic aspects of the art of endgame . His strengths were studies with few figures, domination, systematic movement and mating .

In order to win in the following position, the black knight must be killed without losing any material.

Ignace Vandecasteele
1233 Schakend Nederland
11/1970
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White moves and wins

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Solution:
1. Nf4 Kg5
2. Be3 Sa2 The knight is trapped, but white pieces need to be carefully coordinated in order to collect him.
3. Kb3 d4
4. Ne6 + Kf5
5. Nxd4 + Ke4
6. Nc2 Kd3
7. Bh6 Nc3
8. Nb4 + Kd4
9. Bg7 + now the knight falls and the white pieces checkmate .
6. ... h5 Black sacrificed the knight to the free farmers convert .
7. Kxa2 h5-h4
8. h3 Lf2
9. Lg3 Kf3
10. lc7 Kg2
11. Se 3 + knight and bishop control the pawn reliable. The white king will pick him up.

Vandecasteele comes from a large family. In Antwerp he qualified as an interior designer and after three years of self-employment began a career as a concept manager for the decoration of supermarkets, restaurants and hotels in Belgium's largest sales company.

Fonts

  • Jan van Reek; Henk van Donk; Ignace Vandecasteele; Julien Vandiest: Carel Mann. Margraten, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie No. 6, 1991, ISBN 90-72939-12-3 .
  • Ignace Vandecasteele: 64 Studies op 64 velden, Wilrijk-Antwerpen, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie, 1995, ISBN 90-9007687-5 .
  • Ignace Vandecasteele: Flemish Miniatures, Chess endgame Studies, Wilrijk-Antwerpen, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie, 1997, ISBN 90-9011612-5 .
  • Ignace Vandecasteele: SchaakStudieSpinsels tinned en spun by Ignace Vandecasteele. Tongeren, 2008, ISBN 978-90-9022776-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Van Reek; Henk van Donk: Endgame Studies in the Netherlands and Flanders, Margraten, 1992, ISBN 90-72939-12-3 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vandecasteele, Ignace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vandecasteele, Ignace JG; Vandecasteele, Ignace Marie Joseph Thérès Corneille (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mortsel
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2018
Place of death Antwerp