Walter Henke

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Walter Henke (born January 10, 1905 in Niederpesterwitz , † March 10, 1991 in Freital ) was a German chess composer .

Life

Henke was a baker by profession, played several instruments at a young age and worked as a musician for more than two decades, for example in the spa orchestras of Bad Elster and Bad Salzungen . In addition to chess problems, he also wrote numerous chess epigrams and humorous poems. He had been married since 1946. In addition to a chess badge of honor , Henke also received badges of honor from the SED , the FDGB and the DSF , which, according to Günter Schiller, were awarded “for his social activities”.

Chess composition

His first chess problem appeared in 1922 in the column of the Dresdner Anzeiger , directed by Friedrich Palitzsch . His publications in the Dresdner Volkszeitung and in the Arbeiter-Schachzeitung were often devoted to the move-change-two-move. Since 1959 he has published about 140 two, three and four-moves in chess , free press , weekly mail and in the Saxon newspaper .

Walter Henke
workers chess calendar, 1925
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Checkmate in two moves

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Set games:
1.… d6 – d5
2. S any mate
1.… g6 – g5
2. Qf1 – f5 mate

Solution:
1. Qf1 – h3! Zugzwang Ke4 – d3
2. Ne3 – f1 mate
1.… Ke4 – f4
2. Qh3 – g4 mate
1.… d6 – d5
2. Ne3 – g2 mate
1.… g6 – g5
2. Qf3 – f5 mate

literature

  • Walter Henke: Chess the inhumor. German Chess Association of the GDR, Dresden District Committee, Freital, 1985
  • Walter Henke: Chess humor and satire and other, mostly cheerful thoughts in verse and prose. Freital, 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mückan, Friedbert: Walter Henke - the chess- playing rhyming smith . in: Chess in Saxony. Schachverband Sachsen, 2008, pp. 375–377
  2. ↑ according to Henke, quoted by Günter Schiller in the foreword to Schach dem Unhumor .
  3. ↑ Schiller, Günter in: Schach 6/1991, p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Henke, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederpesterwitz
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1991
Place of death Freital