Johann Sehwers

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Johann Sehwers ( Latvian Janis Zēvers * June 16 . Jul / 28. June  1868 greg. In Nerwensberg at Old Pebalg ; † 7. November 1940 in Poznań ) was a Baltic chess composer , linguist and teacher .

Life

Sehwers was born into a farming family near Vecpiebalga . After attending a teacher training college in Tartu , he worked as a school teacher in various places. He also used the summers from 1910 to 1914 for studies at the University of Zurich . It was there that he obtained his doctorate in philology in 1918 . From 1925 he was chairman of the Latvian Literary Society . In addition to a large number of scientific publications in specialist journals, Sehwers published linguistic and cultural-historical studies in 1936, primarily on the German influence in Latvian , which is regarded as his main work. In 1939 he and his wife Alma (née Hühn) participated in the resettlement of the Baltic Germans to Posen. He passed away a year later.

chess

Sehwers has been participating in local chess tournaments since his youth, and at around 30 he began composing endgame studies . This resulted in around 100 endgame studies , 87 of which he published in an anthology in 1922 together with a portrait of himself. After that, his study composition largely ebbed away.

Johann Sehwers
835th German chess newspaper, April 1900
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White moves and reaches a draw

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Solution:
White can save himself because of the queen's cramped position .
1. Rh5 – b5 +! KB6-c6
2. Tb5-b6 + Kc6xb6
3. Lh4-f2 + along with
the fourth Lf2-d4 Dh8xd4 stalemate
1. ... Kb6xb5 Hinlenkungs victims of both white figures.
2. Lh4-f6 Dh8xf6 stalemate
1. ... KB6-a7
second Lh4-f2 + Ka7-a8
3. Tb5-b8 + Ka8xb8 To the perpetual check on the b-file avert, must be the tower struck sometime.
4. Bf2 – d4 Qh8xd4 stalemate
1.… Kb6 – c7
2. Bh4 – g3 + along with
3. Bg3 – e5 with a queen loss and a draw

Fonts

  • The German loan words in Latvian . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the High Philosophical Faculty I at the University of Zurich. Zurich 1918.
  • Endgame studies. Berlin, Leipzig, Association of Scientific. Publisher W. de Gruyter & Co., 1922.
  • Linguistic-cultural-historical studies mainly on the German influence in Latvian . Leipzig 1936.

literature

  • Val Zemitis: Encyclopedia of Latvian chessplayers. Old Amber Publishing Company, Davis, CA, USA, 2009 page Z45

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sehwers, Johann: Endgame Studies. Berlin, Leipzig, Association of Scientific. Publisher W. de Gruyter & Co., 1922.
personal data
SURNAME Sehwers, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zēvers, Jānis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic chess composer, linguist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Nervesberg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1940
Place of death Poznań