Wilhelm Hagemann (chess composer)

Wilhelm Hagemann (born January 5, 1899 in Lehrte ; † October 17, 1973 in Braunschweig ) was a German chess player and composer .

Hagemann learned to play chess at the age of 10. He won ten times in a row the club championship of the workers' chess club Braunschweig , which he had joined in 1923. In the mid-1920s, he increasingly shifted the focus to chess composition. He composed around 1,600 chess problems, especially three-move and multi-move, as well as a few auxiliary mates , self-mates and studies . He received awards. Several of his works have been included in FIDE albums .

Wilhelm Hagemann
Chess Herald, 1935

	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

Mate in 3 moves

Solution:

White wants to assert Ka6 and Nb6 mate. To do this, the black tower must be deflected from the a-line. At the same time White has to prevent this rook from reaching the 6th row via an open line, for example Re1 – e6.

1. Rh1!
1.… Rxh1 (or 1.… Rf1, Rb1) 2. Ka6 and Nb6 mate
1.-Rc, d, e, g1 (to keep things in check) 2.RxT Bb1 3.Rc, d, e, g8 mate
1 .… Bb1 2. Rg1! together with 3rd Rg8 mate (but not e.g. 2nd Re1? Be4!)

1. Ka6 Bb1 fails ! - Sa4 is tied
1. Rxa1 Bb1 2. Ka6 Bd3 +

In 1949 he founded feenschach , a magazine for fairytale chess , together with Hans Doormann and Wilhelm Karsch . He led problem sections in the journals Arbeiter-Schachzeitung (1929-1933), Promadas , Schach-Herold and Schach-Echo (1953-1969). In 1952 he published figure rounds in the chess problem together with Wilhelm Karsch .

In the mid-1950s he was the problem manager of the Lower Saxony Chess Association .

In 1958, FIDE awarded him the title of International Chess Composition Judge .

In 1973 Hagemann died after a long and serious illness. The Lower Saxony Chess Association organized a composition tournament in 1975/76 in his memory.

Fonts

• with Wilhelm Karsch: Figure rounds in the chess problem. Doormann, Hamburg 1952.

literature

• Willy Hagemann, Braunschweig 60 years, in: Schach-Echo, 1/1959, p. 15
• Manfred Zucker : Great German problem master (61). In: chess . 7, 1999, p. 92.

Web link

• Compositions by Wilhelm Hagemann (chess composer) on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ^ The current portrait, in Süddeutsche Schachblätter, 8/1959, p. 196
2. ↑ International referees for chess compositions (English)