Miroslav Havel

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Miroslav Havel (actually Miroslav Košťál ; born November 7, 1881 in Teplitz , † July 8, 1958 in Prague ) was a Czech chess composer .

Life

Havel lived in Prague from 1884. There he studied at the technical university. From 1906 he worked for the Austrian State Railways and after the establishment of Czechoslovakia for their Ministry of Railways.

Chess composition

After his first assignment was published on May 1, 1898, he soon began to make a reputation for himself as a leading representative of the Bohemian chess composition school . Although many young composers were emerging in Bohemia and Moravia , Havel's works were seen as the transition to a new era in the Bohemian school.

Miroslav Havel
Českè granáty, 1923
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Solution:

1. Kg2 Nf2 2. Dh2 + Nh3 3. Kf3 Kh4 4. Ke4 Kh5 5. Kf5 Kh4 6. Kf6 Kh5 7. Kg7 Kh4 8. Kh8 Kh5 9. Rg8 Kh4, Kh6 10. Be7 (+) Kh5 11. De2 + Kh6 12 .Bg5 + Nxg5 13.Nf7 + Nxf7! mate
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Although analyzes have led some Duale in the second variant to light, but the grand scale can echo in Matt leadership that fact quickly forgotten.

A key feature of Havel's compositions was the avoidance of the use of white farmers . In 1922, in the preface to Bohemian Garnets, František Dedrle praised the frequent use of the echo in Havel's works, either as combinations or as mating positions . According to Dedrle, Havel did not put the purity of the matt images before the echo idea. Since, according to Dedle's interpretation, victims only served to destroy superfluous material, Havel avoided using them if they did not form an important part of the overall idea.

Havel was also active as a journalist. For a long time he edited the chess composition section in Československý šach . He was the editor of the chess columns of various daily newspapers, u. a. Čas (from June 19, 1920 until the magazine was discontinued in 1923), Národní osvobození , Slovenský národ and Les Parallèles 50 . He also appeared as a solver of chess problems.

In 2012, over fifty years after his death, he was appointed Grand Master of Chess Composition .

literature

  • Alain C. White (Ed.): Bohemian Garnets . Christmas Series, Stroud 1923

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Short biography in issue 232, August 2008 of the swallow
  2. ↑ Arthur Mandler: M. Havel died. in FIDE Revue, 3/1958, p. 85
  3. ↑ Grandmasters of the FIDE for chess composition . World Federation for Chess Composition website . Retrieved October 18, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Havel, Miroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Košťál, Miroslav (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1958
Place of death Prague