Wilhelm Schönmann

Wilhelm Schönmann, late 1957

Peter Heinrich Wilhelm Schönmann (born April 7, 1889 in Burgdorf ; † May 15, 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German chess master .

Tournament chess

Schönmann was born in Hamburg 8th – 9th in 1910. in the main tournament B of the DSB Congress. In 1913 he shared 2nd place in Hamburg. In 1914 he won a simultaneous game against Emanuel Lasker in Hamburg and was 15th in the main tournament A of the 19th DSB Congress in Mannheim.

In the main tournament of the 20th DSB Congress in Berlin in 1920, he came second behind Friedrich Sämisch . In the Kiel tournament in the same year he was fourth. In the main tournament C for the congress of the German Chess Association in Vienna in 1926, he shared first place with Barth (Freiberg (Saxony)). and received the Austrian championship title.

A year later he was 6th – 7th. in Bremen and 10. – 11. to the DSB Congress in Magdeburg. In 1928 he won the championship of Greater Hamburg and the tournament in Lübeck ( Quadrangular ) with 10 out of 13 after a playoff against Rodatz (+1 = 2 −0 ). In 1930 he was divided 1st in Hamburg and in 1932 2nd and 8th in the 3rd German Championship in 1935 in Aachen.

With the German team he took part in the unofficial Chess Olympiad 1926 and the Chess Olympiad 1928 .

Correspondence chess

In the national championship of the then World Correspondence Chess Federation IFSB (today ICCF ) in 1935 (was considered the unofficial European correspondence chess championship), Schönmann and F. Ekström (Sweden) took 2nd - 3rd place behind Paul Keres .

He played the final of the 2nd correspondence chess team world championship on board 5 of the German national team and took third place with her in 1955. Two years later he became an honorary member of the Association of German Correspondence Chess Friends .

In the Dr. Dyckhoff Memorial Tournament (1954–56) he won 2nd prize in a strong international group in the master class.

Study composer

At the beginning of his chess career, Schönmann published two chess studies.

Wilhelm Schönmann
German chess sheets , September 19, 1909

	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

White moves and wins

Solution:

1. Bh6 – d2 +! Ke1xd2
2. f7 – f8D a2 – a1D
3. Qf8 – f2 + Kd2 – c1
4. Qf2 – e1 + Kc1 – b2
5. De1 – d2 + Kb2 – b1
6. Kc4 – b3 Black becomes mate

Life

Schönmann was school director at the Lutteroth School in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel until March 1955 .

Web links

• Compositions by Wilhelm Schönmann on the Schwalbe's PDB server
• Player portrait of Wilhelm Schönmann on the website of the Union Eimsbüttel chess club

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Schoenmann versus Emanuel Lasker (1914) on chessgames.com.
2. ^ The unfinished tournament: Mannheim 1914 . Retrieved December 28, 2012.
3. ^ After World War I: 1st main tournament in 1920 in Berlin on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
4. ↑ Wiener Schachzeitung , No. 18, September 1926, p. 280 (with picture)
5. ↑ Magdeburg ( Memento from July 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on xoomer.alice.it.
6. ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 847 kB) on anders.thulin.name
7. ↑ Wilhelm Schönmann's results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Wilhelm Schönmann's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Hans-Werner von Massow in: Fernschach , 1971, Issue 2, p. 48
10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , No. 61, year 13, March 12, 1960, page 3 (caption for: A triumph for the young challengers)