Wolfgang Pauly

This article describes a chess composer. For the theologian of the same name, see Wolfgang Pauly (Theologe) .

Wolfgang Pauly

Wolfgang Pauly (* 15. August 1876 in Dohna in Dresden , † 3. March 1934 in Bucharest ) was a famous German - Romanian composer in chess .

Life

When Pauly was six years old, his family moved to Bucharest. Here he later became the director of a large Romanian insurance company. Besides mathematics , in which he was gifted, his hobby was initially astronomy ; June 14, 1898 10:30 am he discovered near Messier 4 a comet that later to him and the earlier explorers Edwin Foster Coddington as Coddington-Pauly is named. Pauly turned to chess composition after leaving astronomy due to an eye disease. Altogether about 5000 compositions of all areas are known by him, many of them self-mate and fairy tale chess problems . Although he was considered a universalist in chess composition, mathematical-systematic motifs such as symmetry and echo games were one of his favorite subjects. The Pauly theme (also perpetuum mobile ) is named after him, in which in a chess problem that can be solved before and after the key, the set game in one position occurs after the key move in the other position. He was often named as one of the three best chess composers of his time, along with William Anthony Shinkman and Otto Wurzburg .

Pauly co- authored several AC White books: The white rooks (1910), The theory of pawn promotion (1912) and Asymmetry (1927).

During the First World War he was sent to a Romanian camp. Here he contracted an illness that plagued him for the rest of his life and of the consequences of which he died in 1934.

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Wolfgang Pauly
Chess Amateur, 1920

	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 5 moves

Solution:

1. Ne7 – c6 Ke6 – d6 2. Re3 – b3 Kd6 – c7 (2.… Kd6 – e6 3. Rb3 – d3 Ke6 – f6 4. Rd3 – g3 Kf6 – e6 5. Rg3 – g6 #, 2nd. … Kd6 – c5 3. Ke8 – d7 Kc5 – c4 4. Be4 – d3 + Kc4 – c5 5. Rb3 – b5 #) 3. Ke8 – e7 Kc7 – c8 4. Nc6 – a7 + Kc8 – c7 5. Rb3 – b7 mate .

A punch line to this problem is that the mirror-image solution using 1. Ng6 does not work because the knight lacks the check command in move 4 of the main line.

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1. ^ Excerpt from a letter from Wolfgang Pauly on June 17, 1898, bibcode : 1898AN .... 146..355.
2. ^ Herbert Grasemann: Problem chess . Sportverlag Berlin NW 7. 1955. pp. 37-38.
3. ↑ Maxwell Bukzofer: Wolfgang Pauly . Obituary in: The Chess Review , May 1934. pp. 91-92.

Literature about Wolfgang Pauly

• Meindest Niemeijer : Zo sprak Wolfgang Pauly , 1948 (Dutch)
• Marian Stere: Wolfgang Pauly. Challenge of a Legacy. Provocarea unei moșteniri (2001) (Romanian, English, German)

Web links

• Compositions by Wolfgang Pauly on the PDB server