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(21) Posted by Roberto Stelling [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 08:09]

Actually there are 500+ problems on "Caissana Brasileira"!
I do happen to own a copy of it but, as Bob says, scanning it is out of the question. My copy is in pretty good condition for a 1898 book but it wouldn't resist a full scan. On the other hand I wouldn't mind "fenning" its problems, it would take a while but then again it is better than tearing the book apart during the scanning process.
By the way, in the book "Caldas Vianna" is spelled with two "n"s.
 
   
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(22) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 13:23]

You know how photographing works? So maybe someone could visit you who has a digital camera and...
 
   
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(23) Posted by Roberto Stelling [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 14:03]

If we are taking the digital route, wouldn't make more sense if we took it all the way ?
On the other hand, please feel free to come to my place and enlighten me on the photographing thing!
 
   
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(24) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 14:16]

It's as simple as this. Today's cameras are good enough to provide a quality that is very high - yes, even comparable to scan - without being a real scan. You can read everything even from a distance of maybe 30 to 50 cm. So if anyone near you has a good digital camera, it's as easy as finding the correct settings and making photos. That's the enlightening you asked for. :-)

Best,
Siegfried "Fox on the camera" Hornecker
 
   
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(25) Posted by Roberto Stelling [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 19:00]

No,no, that's no help, you have to come here and show me this marvel at work! Only then I'll believe! :o)
How do you like your tea ? Or you'd rather have some cachaça or caipirinha ?
 
   
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(26) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 19:05]

Hey, that's too expensive :-)

And I don't know if my camera is really good enough (but seems to be so).

Best,
Siegfried
 
   
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(27) Posted by Roberto Stelling [Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 19:31]

Siegfried, you could use my camera for that matter, I know it is up to the task. ;)
Actually I was in sheepish mode, I do know how this "digital photography thing" work ;), but I was thinking about going an extra mile and converting the diagrams to fen and make it available in digital form.

But then again, the invitation is still in place and I'm looking forward to your visit!
If you're not coming to drink some cachaça then what about a PCCC congress in Brasil ? :)
 
   
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(28) Posted by Geoff Foster [Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 07:57]

Bob Meadley has found the original publication of Caldas Vianna's problem. It was submitted to the first tourney of "The Chess Monthly", announced in December 1880. The tourney was for a set of four problems - one 2-mover, two three-movers and one 4-mover. First prize was 10 pounds (a lot of money in those days), second prize was 5 pounds and third prize was a chess photo 63cm x 33 cm from a painting by A Rosenbaum. The judges were F C Collins, Frank Healey of Bristol fame and J H Zukertort - a very high calibre trio.

Vianna's set appeared in May 1881 under the motto "Quo res cumque cadent". One of his 3-movers was unsound and so he couldn't win a prize. The comments to his other 3-mover were as follows: "A very fair composition, although it is not very difficult of solution, and the mates are not so clean as might be expected" (H W Butler). "Very good and rather difficult. The passive knight, the want of variety, and the absence of clean mates are against it" (B G Laws). "Beauty and difficulty combined in a very high degree; in all respects a first-class problem" (W Nash). "A very clever and most ingenious problem" (L Nathan). "Neatness and purity large, originality average, attractiveness large, resultant difficulty average" ("Toz").

The final award appeared in January 1883. H Leprettel of Marseilles won first prize. He died before the final award but did see the preliminary award.

Vianna's 4-mover turned out to have a major flaw. Bob Meadley has offered a prize for the best correction, but I'll put the details in a separate thread.
 
 
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