Udo Degener

Udo Degener (* 23. November 1959 in Nordhausen ) is a German poet and writer of literature and tasks in chess . He is the grand master of chess composition .

Chess composition

From 1977 Degener published his first chess compositions in the magazine Schach and in the Chemnitz regional daily newspaper Freie Presse . At the end of 2011 he had composed 900 published assignments. 530 of them were awarded, over 190 tasks received a prize. With the 1998–2000 FIDE album , Degener fulfilled the norm for the grandmaster title for chess composition, which he was awarded in September 2005.

Degener has been looking after the Albrecht collection since 1994 . This database is named after Hermann Albrecht , who created it in 1933, and contains over 156,000 orthodox two-migrants. Since 1991 Udo Degener has been editing a chess column in the puzzle magazine Troll and since the beginning of 2000, as the successor to Manfred Zucker, the section Problems and Studies in the magazine Schach . In March 2015 he handed this section over to Franz Pachl .

Udo Degener
318th harmony , 1996/97
1st prize

	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

Self-mate in 5 moves

Solution:
1. Rd5! with the silent threat 2. Rb5 !! What to 4. 3. Te 3 + Kxd4 T d3 + Lxd3 matt is nothing to do more. 2. Rc5? however, fails when the rook hits the rook after 3. Re3 + Kxd4 4. Rd3 + Kxc5!

Diving:
1. ... Nb6 (or Sc7) 2. Lc5 + Nxd5 3. Td4 + Ke3 4. Tg4 + Kf3 5. LE 4 + Lxe4 matt

1 ... e6 2. Te2 + exf5 3. Be3 + Ke4 4. Bg5 + Kf3 5. T d3 + Lxd3 matt

The task demonstrates battery change .

Private

Degener studied cultural studies in Leipzig from 1983 to 1988 . In 2007 he founded a small publishing house that mainly publishes chess compositional and lyric works. He lives in Potsdam .

Works

Poetry

• Poetry album 244 , Berlin 1988
• Shadow places of memory , Edition Schwarzdruck, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935194-25-9
• high cow , poem box , ZAKK , Düsseldorf, May 2009

Poetry in magazines and anthologies (selection)

• in: New Poetry - New Names . Berlin 1986
• in: WortBILD - Visual Poetry in the GDR . Hall 1990
• in: new german literature . No. 4, 2003
• in: Signum . No. 2, 2003 / No. 2, 2005
• in: reading time 3 . School book, Linz 2007
• in: New poetry album . Issue 2/2009, Leipzig
• in: Yearbook of Poetry . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011

Chess composition

• Hermann Albrecht - 117 Zweizüger , Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-940531-00-1
• The book Le Grand , Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-940531-01-8
• Around the world in 80 problems , Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-940531-02-5
• 50 years of Dombrovskis-Thema , Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-940531-03-2
• Promadas 1928-1930 , Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-940531-04-9
• The original prints of the Schlesische Tageszeitung 1934-1944 , Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-940531-06-3
• From Ajec to Zappas, problem chess ABC of the two-move themes , Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-940531-07-0
• Matt - 900 chess problems , Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-940531-59-9

literature

• Who writes? Authors and translators in the state of Brandenburg , Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1998, pp. 30–31
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1998 , KG Saur Verlag, 61st year (1998), p. 196
• About literature and literary studies: anagrammatic readings , Matthias Luserke-Jaqui , Francke, Tübingen, 2003, p. 77 f.
• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century , Saur-Verlag, Zurich a. Munich 2004, vol. 6, p. 6

Web links

• Problem chess
• publishing company
• Literature by and about Udo Degener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Compositions by Udo Degener on the Schwalbe's PDB server
• Short biography and information on the work of Udo Degener at Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grand master for chess compositions