Richard Büchner (chess composer)

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Richard Büchner (born February 5, 1908 in Erdmannsdorf ; † January 2, 1929 in Chemnitz ) was a German chess composer .

Life

Richard Büchner attended elementary school from 1914 and from 1916 was housed in the newly established boys' day care center. Under the direction of the after-school father Walter Fischer, who is respected in Erdmannsdorf, Büchner learned to play chess, among other things . After the after-school care center was closed in 1919, Büchner took a boy runner job with a teacher, which he kept until he left school in 1922. Upon leaving school, Büchner was diagnosed with a heart defect.

Büchner then became a seamstress in the cotton spinning and twisting mill Arno and Moritz Meister , where his father and brother Rudolf were also employed. There he immediately joined the textile workers' association .

In the autumn of 1923 a notice in Erdmannsdorf invited to the inheritance court , where a workers chess club was founded. Richard Büchner was club champion there from 1924 to 1927, then second behind his brother Rudolf.

Following a call from the Essen Workers' Chess Association, the Büchner brothers sent in some of their own chess problems to a problem tournament, but these were not awarded and later appeared in the Chemnitz Volksstimme . The brothers then stuck to problem chess and were soon ranked among the most productive writers of chess problems in the workers' chess movement. Initially following the style of his brother Rudolf, Richard Büchner switched from the variant problem to the matt image problem around 1927. Among the 115 Büchner two-moveers there are 49 tasks with a black queen.

In autumn 1927 at the latest, Büchner's health deteriorated. After medical treatment initially remained successful, he withdrew further and further in the summer of 1928 and called in sick in October. The skin inflammation found by a doctor did not improve despite careful care, so that Büchner was transferred to the Küchwald Hospital in Chemnitz on December 7, 1928. The condition worsened into heart valve infection. On January 2, 1929, Büchner passed away.

At the funeral on January 5, 1929 in Erdmannsdorf, Büchner received chess magazines and a pocket chess game as grave goods .

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Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Promadas. Problem magazine of the German Workers Chess Federation , Issue 4, April 1930. pp. 4–9. Reprographic reprint in Udo Degener Verlag 2008
personal data
SURNAME Büchner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Erdmannsdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1929
Place of death Chemnitz