Israel Schiffmann

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Israel Schiffmann

Israel Abramowitsch Schiffmann (born September 27, 1903 in Odessa , † April 29, 1930 in Chișinău , then Romania ) was a Romanian chess composer .

Chess composition

Schiffmann learned to play chess at the age of seven. After a stay in a sanatorium in 1924, he began to be interested in chess composition. Although he only composed for five years, he won more than 60 prizes during this period, including just under two dozen first, and created a two-trainer theme named after him. In the World Championship, which was held as a summary of all tournament successes, he took second place in the two-man division in 1928, and in 1929 he achieved victory. He composed about 200-300 tasks of all kinds, but mostly two-moves . In the Romanian chess magazine Revista Română de Şah he was from 1928 until his death, two-move editor. His command of six languages ​​(German, English, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian) helped him. He published articles in various magazines and was considered an authority.

Shipman parades

In 1927 Schiffmann composed a two-move, the theme of which was later named after him: With the key move, a mate threat is developed through the use of a trigger battery. In the thematic variants (parades), black prevents the obvious mate , but ties itself in such a way that mate can no longer be prevented. One also speaks of self-bondage parades. The subject was presented in a task as early as 1888 by the Dane Hans Valdemar Arntz.

Israel A. Schiffmann
British Chess Problem Society
1927/28, 2nd prize
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Checkmate in two moves

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Solution:

1. Lh2 g1 (threatens second f2-f4 matt )
1. ... 2. Dg6xe4 Da6xf6 matt
1 ... Sc3xe4 second Da6 a1 matt
1 ... d5xe4 second f2-f3 matt

Private

Schiffmann was the son of an entrepreneur in the metallurgical industry. After completing his basic training, Schiffmann studied at the Technical University in Charlottenburg . Health problems that occurred in 1924 brought him a stay in a south German lung sanatorium. A few months before his death, he fell ill with the flu and could not get out of bed. According to an obituary in Revista Română de Şah , Schiffmann “firmly believed in the dignity, honor and justice of man”.

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  • Gabriel Baumgartner (actually Odette Vollenweider ): Fascinating chess problem: compositions by IA Schiffmann , self-published, Heidelberg, November 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Hooper and Ken Whyld : Oxford Companion to Chess . Oxford University Press 1984. ISBN 0-19-281986-0 . P. 296
  2. ^ Litmanowicz / Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z , Warsaw 1986 (Polish), Volume 2, p. 1093, ISBN 83-217-2745-X
personal data
SURNAME Schiffmann, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiffmann, Israel A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1930
Place of death Chișinău