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| | | (1) Posted by [Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010 12:34]; edited by [10-08-18] | A minor Dobruský mystery
I've stumbled on two problems in Deutsche Schachzeitung 1884:
Josef Kolář in Tabor
5711, Deutsche Schachzeitung 1884 (Dec., 1884)
 (= 7+5 )
#3
Johann Hanuš in Prag
5714, Deutsche Schachzeitung 1884 (Dec., 1884)
 (= 5+8 )
#3
but when I start to dig around to find out more about these problemists, I
come up with Dobruský as author of both problems.
I have an indication that Dobrusky did occasionally use a pseudonym (in that case Novak) for
problems that were not up to Dobrusky standard, but I'm a bit surprised at stumbling over
two of them (if indeed pseudonyms they be) like this.
Does anyone recognize the names? Josef Kolář just might be a valid name -- there was a Czech author
of that name at the time -- but I would expect one or two problems more if he was a bona fide
problemist.
Or have I simply missed some article or biography of Dobruský?
Added; Or have the problems erroneously been ascribed to Dobruský?)
| | | (2) Posted by Mario Richter [Thursday, Aug 19, 2010 11:36] |
The Chess Monthly (Oct.1883) contains the following problem:
No.478
J.Kolar (of Tabor, Bohemia)
(reprint from 'Svetozor')
 (= 5+6 )
#3
(This problem can also be found as problem LXXXIX in the book "Chess-nut burrs", p.151, which also contains a problem by Dobruský)
(Brownsons) Chess Journal, March 1887
presents the following problem:
1730.
Jan Hanus
(from 'Zlata Praha')
 (= 5+5 )
#3
Wiener Schachzeitung, Volume 15, 1912, mentions a chess player "Hanus aus Pilsen"
| | | (3) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Thursday, Aug 19, 2010 13:54] |
And a J. Hanus played in South Bohemia ( in Czech: Jihočeský kraj) in a simultaneous display by Duras in that same Year
[Event "Pisek sim"]
[Site "Pisek"]
[Date "1912.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "J Hanus"]
[Black "Oldrich Duras"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Bc5 6.e5 d5 7.exf6
dxc4 8.Re1+ Be6 9.Ng5 g6 10.Qf3 Qd7 11.Rxe6+ fxe6 12.f7+ Ke7
13.Ne4 Qd5 14.Bg5+ Qxg5 15.Nxg5 Raf8 16.Nd2 h6 17.Nde4 Bb4
18.Qf6+ Kd7 19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.Nf6 Nb8 21.Ngh7 Be7 22.Nxf8 Rxf8
23.Re1 1-0
source: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1294897
| | | (4) Posted by Michal Dragoun [Friday, Aug 20, 2010 00:49] |
According to introduction to book Jan Dobruský: Šachové úlohy (Chess problems), prepared by J. Pospíšil, Prague 1907, J. Dobruský used a lot of pseudonyms: J. Živsa (his first problem), J. Kolář (at least 14 problems), V. Novák (at least 5), V. Bláha (at least 2), J. Hanuš (at least 7), Fr. Jabůrek (1) and J. Kesl (1 - especially this is confusing, because Josef Kesl was real (another) composer).
First problem (5711 DS) is in mentioned book published as No. 100, source Světozor 1883 (under name J. Kolář), second (DS 5714) as No. 126, source Šach-mat 1884, reprint Paleček 1884 (but no pseudonym is given to this problem).
| | | (5) Posted by [Friday, Aug 20, 2010 10:05] |
Thanks everyone for the additional info!
Particular thanks to Michal Dragoun for the reference to Pospíšil's book -- looks like
I need to be careful around Dobruský. I believe that clears up the Josef Kolář and Johann Hanuš
collisions.
The Kesl pseudonym is interesting -- and particulary that it was used only once. If that is
correct, it may be this one:
J. Kesl: 8001, Deutsche Schachzeitung (Feb., 1894)
Dobruský: Zlatá Praha (1893) [ YACPDB ]
 (= 5+4 )
#3
Kesl seems to have been quite active in DSz 1893-4 -- tourney awards, problems,
etc. -- so it seems a little strange that Dobrusky should have used his name
for a pseudonym. (Or was it for some entirely different problem?)
However, I also find this one, right next to the previous one in DSz:
J. Kesl: 8002, Deutsche Schachzeitung (Feb., 1894)
Pospíšil: 115, České Melodie, referencing Zlatá Praha (1893)
 (= 7+7 )
#3
This confuses things rather nicely.
If Dobruský was Kesl on one occasion, did Pospíšil also use that pseudonym? (Or,
was it Pospíšil who used Kesl, and he used Dobruský to confuse things? Seems unlikely) Or did
the problem editor of DSz (v. Gottschall) get confused and put the wrong author on
these two problems? On the whole, the last hypothesis seems slightly more probable (at
least on the present evidence), but I would have expected a correction in that
case, and I have not found any so far.
| | | (6) Posted by Michal Dragoun [Friday, Aug 20, 2010 10:46] |
I checked in the meantime publication Josef Kesl in I. Mikan´s series Galerie československých skladatelů (Gallery of Czechoslovak - in fact Bohemian - composers). In the afterword I. Mikan mentions two problems signed J. Kesl not included in this collection, because their author was J. Dobruský, their reference is 550 and 551 Zlatá Praha 20. 10. 1893. One of them is surely 8001 from DS (No. 155 in Dobruský book). I don´t know, if the second one is 8002, but it is quite well possible, when both were published and reproduced side-by-side. (If it is so, I don´t know, who is wrong in attribution of 8002.)
| | | (7) Posted by [Friday, Aug 20, 2010 19:12]; edited by [10-08-20] |
With that added information, it seems possible that the Kesl = Dobrusky
is a misprint. Probably it originated in the issue of Zlatá Praha that
you have identified -- an editorial mishap, perhaps -- and maybe corrected
later, but not noted by v. Gottschall.
I'll add this info to my collection for future reference.
Thanks again!
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