New German School (chess)
Neudeutsche Schule is the name for a direction in chess composition . Nowadays the term is still mainly used in German-speaking countries, internationally this style is often referred to as the Logical School , which also aptly describes its content.
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Arthur Gehlert's article, published in 1903 and encouraged to write down by Paul Schellenberg and Johannes Kohtz in the "Dresdner Schachverein", broke with Berger's laws of art that had been postulated for decades and initiated a revolution in chess composition, which finally resulted in a new direction of composition, the New German (or Logical) School , found its echo.
The book The Indian Problem by Johannes Kohtz and Carl Kockelkorn is understood as the beginning and founding document of the New German School . It is named after a chess problem of the Indian clergyman (Reverend) Henry Augustus Loveday, which was more than fifty years old , and perhaps the most famous chess problem in history. Kohtz and Kockelkorn worked out the logical structure of this task. The decisive factor was the “critical move” 1. Bh6 – c1, which has the sole purpose of making the intersection d2 usable for a subsequent adjustment (rook to d2). Discussions ensued with Johann Berger, the founder of the Old German School . This correspondence from Kohtz was printed in the German weekly chess. Berger held against it in the German chess newspaper. Kohtz put forward better arguments that the New German School supplanted the Old German School.
In addition to Kohtz and Kockelkorn, the theorists of the New German School also included Friedrich Palitzsch and Walther Freiherr von Holzhausen , who made outstanding contributions to the cultivation of the logical school. He called for a purely functional representation of a strategic idea in a logical form. Manfred Zucker and above all Alois Johandl continued this tradition very successfully in the last decades, today Hans Peter Rehm is one of the notable representatives of this school. Werner Speckmann and Hans Peter Rehm published on the "New German School" in Russia in order to make their ideas known to other chess composers.
literature
- Herbert Grasemann : One of the Reverend's ideas that made history . Self-published, Berlin 1981, DNB 891001859 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Gehlert: About the essence of the chess problem. Supplement to: German weekly chess. March 8, 1903.
- ^ Manfred Zucker : Problem chess in Saxony. In: Chess in Saxony. Schachverband Sachsen, Dresden 2008, DNB 999354280 , p. 335.
Web links
- Erik Zierke: Die Neudeutsch-Logische Schule (attempt of an exhaustive treatment of the content requirements of this chess composition direction)
- Poetry on the board 4th part . Article by Bo Lindgren on the comparison of the New German and Bohemian Schools.