Josef Kling

Josef Kling

Josef Kling (born March 19, 1811 in Mainz , † December 1, 1876 in London ) was a German chess player and study composer .

Life

Josef Kling was originally a church musician and music teacher. In 1834 he moved to Paris and earned his living playing chess in the Café de la Régence . In 1837 he then settled in London.

In 1836 he published a famous analysis of the endgame rook and bishop against rook in the chess magazine Le Palamède , which was adopted by Howard Staunton in his work Chess Player's Handbook in 1847 . In 1849 Kling published the book The Chess Euclid , a collection of 200 chess problems. Together with Bernhard Horwitz , he published the book Chess studies , dedicated to Staunton, in 1851 , which mainly contained endgame studies . In a book review, Tassilo von Heydebrand and der Lasa wrote about the difference between problem and study: The positions differ from those of the very popular problems, first of all, in that they are extremely natural and in the way that they easily occur at the end of a real game. Furthermore, the task, which is sometimes very difficult to solve, is not to achieve mate under certain conditions in measured moves, but only to get to a favorable position, whereby the number of moves is less important.

Between 1851 and 1853, Kling and Horwitz published the magazine The Chess Player , in which they published further studies. On June 1, 1852, Kling opened the chess café Kling's Chess and Coffee Rooms in New Oxford Street in London , which existed until 1859 and u. a. was often visited by William Davies Evans . Kling remained in the chess scene until his death and was an honorary member of the City of London Chess Club .

Josef Kling
Chess Weekly, 1849

	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

White to move wins

With the introduction of a second variant the author has perfected a mansion from the 13th century:

Solution :

1. Ta4 Qxa4 2. Rh3 + K ~ 4 3. Rh4 + spit A
1.… Qc8 2. Rh3 + Qxh3 3. Ta3 + spit B as an echo

Every other queen's move is followed by either Th3 mate or loss of the queen.

Works

• The Chess Euclid. A Collection of two hundred Chess Problems and End-Games (London 1849)
• Kling / Horwitz: Chess studies; or endings of games (London 1851)

Web link

• Compositions by Josef Kling on the Schwalbe's PDB server