Chess Composers

Stěpán Zimmermann (22-10-1867 - 19-08-1938) Czech composer

Stěpán Zimmermann composed direct mates, mostly in three moves, in the Bohemian style.


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José Mugnos (22-10-1904 - 01-05-1982) Argentinian composer


José Mugnos was a remarkable porteño composer of analytical studies. Here you can find one of his best studies (Chess, 1943-1944) with a black desperado Rook and two very convincing variations.
He wrote with Oscar Carlsson "Finales artisticos razonados" (1976).


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Denis M. Saunders (22-10-1930 - 06-2009) Australian composer

Denis Saunders' profile was made by Geoff Foster on OzProblems. He started composing late, but rapidly became the best Australian threemover composer.
Geoff Foster compiled 72 of his problems in "The Wizard of Oz - A selection of chess problems by Denis Saunders" (1999).


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Miloslav Vanka (22-10-1941) Czech composer


Miloslav Vanka composes essentially direct mates. He is a FIDE Master for solving and a chess trainer.


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Francisc Rduch (22-10-1886 - 17-05-1942) Romanian-Polish composer

Francisc Rduch was born in Lemberg in Poland and lived most of his life in Cernăuți in Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He was deaf and worked as a librarian (archivist) at the Cernăuți University.
He composed direct mates, mostly hard-to-solve threemovers, and collaborated with the magazine "Revista Română de Șah" from 1926 until 1942.
His obituary by Milu Milescu was published in Revista Română de Șah 02-1948, page 62.


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