Wie mir gestern Abend Martin Minski mitgeteilt hat, hat Niclas Huschenbeth eine sehr schöne Kleinigkeit von uns in einem seiner Youtube-Videos mit dem Titel "Unglaubliche Studien #12" besprochen. Der Hamburger Großmeister Huschenbeth war zunächst - neben Videos für einen großen Online-Schachservice - für seine Serie "Unglaubliche Züge" bekannt, in der er genialste Züge aus echten Schachpartien präsentiert. Nachdem Martin Minski einen jener Züge gesehen hatte, entstand eine Gemeinschaftsstudie der beiden daraus, die zur Grundlage für Huschenbeths Studien-Anthologievideoserie wurde.
Weitere Links:
Unglaubliche Züge (Playlist)
Unglaubliche Studien (Playlist)
Remarkeble Games and Moments (Playlist, englisch)
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
The mysterious Ephraim Halpern murder (10,000 Deutsche Mark offered as of 1984)
Apologies for something different, but this bothers me since I first learned about it in December 2017.
In September 1983, the Israeli citizen Ephraim Halpern was murdered in Hamburg. The murder weapon was a Wehrmacht gun P38 with the serial number "80 10 e". The gun was found together with two magazines in a trash bin. Police in Hamburg asks who is in possession of a Wehrmacht pistol P38 with a nearby serial number.
As of December 2017, the Ludwigsburg Central for solving National Socialist crimes has had no lists of Wehrmacht gun serial numbers.
Ephraim Halpern supposedly was involved with secret services and gun deals, but it is unclear if this is true. What is known is that he worked for the SGH Spezial Gerätebau in Hamburg, a daughter of the Tadiran Isräl Electronics Ltd., Tel Aviv. The company is specialized in electronics and weapons, having fulfilled contacts for the (West) German Army "Bundeswehr". Prior to leading this business, Halpern was a Major of the Israeli Air Force.
Halpern likely worked for the MOSSAD. He might have been killed as a retribution for the killing of Saki El Selou. A few weeks prior to his murder he also met with arms dealers in Vienna, according to a 2017 book "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.
The possibility exists that this is one of the last nazi crimes in Germany, so if you are able to provide any information, please contact the police in Hamburg. If this is not a nazi crime, it might be related to international terrorism.
In September 1983, the Israeli citizen Ephraim Halpern was murdered in Hamburg. The murder weapon was a Wehrmacht gun P38 with the serial number "80 10 e". The gun was found together with two magazines in a trash bin. Police in Hamburg asks who is in possession of a Wehrmacht pistol P38 with a nearby serial number.
As of December 2017, the Ludwigsburg Central for solving National Socialist crimes has had no lists of Wehrmacht gun serial numbers.
Ephraim Halpern supposedly was involved with secret services and gun deals, but it is unclear if this is true. What is known is that he worked for the SGH Spezial Gerätebau in Hamburg, a daughter of the Tadiran Isräl Electronics Ltd., Tel Aviv. The company is specialized in electronics and weapons, having fulfilled contacts for the (West) German Army "Bundeswehr". Prior to leading this business, Halpern was a Major of the Israeli Air Force.
Halpern likely worked for the MOSSAD. He might have been killed as a retribution for the killing of Saki El Selou. A few weeks prior to his murder he also met with arms dealers in Vienna, according to a 2017 book "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.
The possibility exists that this is one of the last nazi crimes in Germany, so if you are able to provide any information, please contact the police in Hamburg. If this is not a nazi crime, it might be related to international terrorism.
Address: Caffamacherreihe 4, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)40 428670777
Do not contact me (this might put my life into danger) nor post in the comments but directly contact the police. You likely can also contact your local police and they will forward the information to Hamburg. If it is true that Halpern is a former MOSSAD agent, you might also want to contact the police in Israel.
Address: Public Complaints Unit, 91 Herzl Street, The Government Complex Building, Ramla 7243003, Israel
Email:
tlunot@police.gov.il
(Some of the information here is taken by the internet and marked as speculative as far as the sources might not be reliable. Other information is taken from the German TV show "Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst" of 11 May 1984. As this might be a nazi crime, I have a personal ethical interest that the perpetrators are caught.)
EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers
Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)
I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.
EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers
Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)
I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Harlan Ellison (27.v.1934 - 27.vi.2018)
At the age of 84, the legendary writer has died in his sleep last night.
I have a mouth, and I want to scream!
I have a mouth, and I want to scream!
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
About project "Study of the Month"
I have sent my annual report to the WFCC president and the president of the Subcommittee for Endgame Studies in the WFCC yesterday. I believe the project "Study of the Month", which is hosted by ChessBase, is a great success, and although not many people comment on it, I have the unofficial comments per e-mail that tell me that the chess composers are reading it, they enjoy it, and they are unfortunately too polite to tell what should be changed when it should.
For this year, i.e. 2018, we have undertaken the historical examination.We have shown several early composers, and will continue to do so. For December a special christmas issue is already in the works, but details can't be given yet.
The articles about the following main topics were published in 2018 so far:
January: Alexey Troitzky
February: Platov brothers
March: Kubbel brothers
April: Nikolay Grigoriev (extensive)
May: Chess Studies; or: Endings of Games
The following topic is scheduled for June, to be published on June 30.
Henri Rinck
So far only very famous composers have been covered, but those are incidentally the most important figures. I am worried about the new EU copyright directive, as it might prevent the re-use of still copyrighted endgame studies for educational and scientific purposes without permission of untracable heirs. History might end with the studies of people who died in 1947 then. This would be a horrible cultural holocaust. (Link in German, as there is no English article fitting.)
For this year, i.e. 2018, we have undertaken the historical examination.We have shown several early composers, and will continue to do so. For December a special christmas issue is already in the works, but details can't be given yet.
The articles about the following main topics were published in 2018 so far:
January: Alexey Troitzky
February: Platov brothers
March: Kubbel brothers
April: Nikolay Grigoriev (extensive)
May: Chess Studies; or: Endings of Games
The following topic is scheduled for June, to be published on June 30.
Henri Rinck
So far only very famous composers have been covered, but those are incidentally the most important figures. I am worried about the new EU copyright directive, as it might prevent the re-use of still copyrighted endgame studies for educational and scientific purposes without permission of untracable heirs. History might end with the studies of people who died in 1947 then. This would be a horrible cultural holocaust. (Link in German, as there is no English article fitting.)
Monday, June 25, 2018
PraggnANANDhaa Rameshbabu is grandmaster!
https://en.chessbase.com/post/praggnanandhaa-a-game-away-from-becoming-a-grandmaster
"Pragg" (* 10 August 2005), as he is often called, has received his third norm in the small Italian village Ortisei. Congratulations!
"Pragg" (* 10 August 2005), as he is often called, has received his third norm in the small Italian village Ortisei. Congratulations!
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Satire: How I became World Chess Champion
You certainly have heard of the World Chess Championship 2018. World Champion Bogolblanca had to fight against me. With new FIDE rules, it was a "best of 10". The first game went like this:
Bogolblanca - Hornecker
World Chess Championship 2018, game 1
1.f4
Bogolblanca plays the Bird opening, but I have prepared the Englund gambit, to which I want to continue 2.f:e5 f6.
1.-e5 2.g4!
Bogolblanca offered an interesting gambit. I was shocked. I had never seen anyone play this opening before, and I was a master for over 30 years now. So what was to be done there?
2.-e:f4
Of course, a gambit can mostly be refuted by taking the pawn. The game went on:
3.Sf3! h5 4.g5 Be7 5.h4 d5 6.d3 Bd6
I thought to be safely a pawn up by now.
7.Bg2 Se7 8.Sd4 Sg6 9.B:d5 f3 10.e4 c6 11.g6!! S:g6 12.B:f7+!!
Needless to say, I lost in a few more moves. I analyzed the variation and after an easy draw with White in the second game he played it again. I managed to hold this time. The further games ended in draws, and after game 5 the colors were switched. Finally, in the last night of the match I found a surprising refutation of his gambit.
Bogolblanca - Hornecker
World Chess Championship 2018, game 10
1.f4 e5 2.g4
Now I presented my refutation of this gambit, after which, as you know from the press, even the most stubborn of grandmasters ceased to play it.
2.-Qh4 mate with a small advantage I converted into a full point.
The tie-break match went nice for me, but after a blunder it went into the Armageddon game. As I had Black and had to win the game, my experience with crisis situations came in handy. The venue was robbed during our game, and just as I was about to be checkmated, the robbers broke into our playing room. I quickly made a move, and my opponent didn't realize he was to move as he had to hold his arms up. I paid the robbers nicely afterwards and kept his watch as a memento. Wait, I was not supposed to write this. How can I delete this text?
[EDIT: Somehow I messed up the moves in the first game and can't seem to "recover my thoughts" for the original game. So if you have any clues what I left out, please let me know. I think White castled kingside and played Sc3, and Black also did something in that time, probably bringing the knight to e5 or something similar. But I can't seem to find a realistic line where B:f7+ wins.]
Bogolblanca - Hornecker
World Chess Championship 2018, game 1
1.f4
Bogolblanca plays the Bird opening, but I have prepared the Englund gambit, to which I want to continue 2.f:e5 f6.
1.-e5 2.g4!
Bogolblanca offered an interesting gambit. I was shocked. I had never seen anyone play this opening before, and I was a master for over 30 years now. So what was to be done there?
2.-e:f4
Of course, a gambit can mostly be refuted by taking the pawn. The game went on:
3.Sf3! h5 4.g5 Be7 5.h4 d5 6.d3 Bd6
I thought to be safely a pawn up by now.
7.Bg2 Se7 8.Sd4 Sg6 9.B:d5 f3 10.e4 c6 11.g6!! S:g6 12.B:f7+!!
Needless to say, I lost in a few more moves. I analyzed the variation and after an easy draw with White in the second game he played it again. I managed to hold this time. The further games ended in draws, and after game 5 the colors were switched. Finally, in the last night of the match I found a surprising refutation of his gambit.
Bogolblanca - Hornecker
World Chess Championship 2018, game 10
1.f4 e5 2.g4
Now I presented my refutation of this gambit, after which, as you know from the press, even the most stubborn of grandmasters ceased to play it.
2.-Qh4 mate with a small advantage I converted into a full point.
The tie-break match went nice for me, but after a blunder it went into the Armageddon game. As I had Black and had to win the game, my experience with crisis situations came in handy. The venue was robbed during our game, and just as I was about to be checkmated, the robbers broke into our playing room. I quickly made a move, and my opponent didn't realize he was to move as he had to hold his arms up. I paid the robbers nicely afterwards and kept his watch as a memento. Wait, I was not supposed to write this. How can I delete this text?
[EDIT: Somehow I messed up the moves in the first game and can't seem to "recover my thoughts" for the original game. So if you have any clues what I left out, please let me know. I think White castled kingside and played Sc3, and Black also did something in that time, probably bringing the knight to e5 or something similar. But I can't seem to find a realistic line where B:f7+ wins.]
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Emil Joseph Diemer 110
The great German master Diemer, founder of the (propagandist) "Deutsches Kampfschach" slogan ("German fighting chess"), explorer (with Studier, Gunderam, et al.) of the Blackmar Diemer Gambit, an improved version of one of the both Blackmar gambits (1.d4 d5 2.e4 d:e4 3.f3?? was improved to 1.d4 d5 2.e4 d:e4 3.Sc3 Sf6 4.f3!! [!?] e:f3 5.Q:f3!! [again not objectively deserving the exclamation marks, but they are for the crazy idea]). The gambit is objectively refuted (source: Studier 2004, personal talk), but very dangerous at a hobby and club player level below title ranks.
The "Prophet of Muggensturm", as he was jokingly referred to, at the end of his life, as - including me - many of his followers believe, indeed developed prophetic powers. This, however, came after falling for decades of not working esoteric beliefs, such as biorhythms (not to be confused with the medical biorhtythms). Studier told me how his book contians one big error regarding this: Indeed Diemer tried to warn Wolfgang Schäuble of the assassination. The assassination however was on 12 October 1990, two days after Diemer's death.
Was this another itch, which for once was hitting? Barely, as a German chess historian reports meeting Diemer once who said that he would know where Bogoljubov's grave is when he tries to go there. Indeed, at that day the sun shone and there was a reflection that could be seen widely... coming from the grave...
Did Diemer just assume the sun would reflect there? Did he just have intuition telling him of the Schäuble assassination? After the many failed prophetic attempts of Diemer one could attribute it to luck, to just an usual "prophetic" hit rate. On the other hand, one might be inclined to believe that the man who died on 10/10/1990 at 10:10 AM(!) at the end of his life indeed found a truth he was searching for always.
Diemer's legacy is that of an eccentric gambit that brought spectacular wins, brutal losses, a fanatic fellowship, a chess master who - depending on the viewpoint - either totally failed to promote "his" opening and became crazy, or who was more than the human shell was able to show: A soul in searching for the ultimate truth, a predecessor of the fictional Fox Mulder in his stoic believe that the truth is out there and he would eventually find it. Whatever it was, somewhere over the rainbow an old man become young again right now might smile down on us, knowingly and with a smirk.
Happy birthday, Emil Joseph Diemer!
The "Prophet of Muggensturm", as he was jokingly referred to, at the end of his life, as - including me - many of his followers believe, indeed developed prophetic powers. This, however, came after falling for decades of not working esoteric beliefs, such as biorhythms (not to be confused with the medical biorhtythms). Studier told me how his book contians one big error regarding this: Indeed Diemer tried to warn Wolfgang Schäuble of the assassination. The assassination however was on 12 October 1990, two days after Diemer's death.
Was this another itch, which for once was hitting? Barely, as a German chess historian reports meeting Diemer once who said that he would know where Bogoljubov's grave is when he tries to go there. Indeed, at that day the sun shone and there was a reflection that could be seen widely... coming from the grave...
Did Diemer just assume the sun would reflect there? Did he just have intuition telling him of the Schäuble assassination? After the many failed prophetic attempts of Diemer one could attribute it to luck, to just an usual "prophetic" hit rate. On the other hand, one might be inclined to believe that the man who died on 10/10/1990 at 10:10 AM(!) at the end of his life indeed found a truth he was searching for always.
Diemer's legacy is that of an eccentric gambit that brought spectacular wins, brutal losses, a fanatic fellowship, a chess master who - depending on the viewpoint - either totally failed to promote "his" opening and became crazy, or who was more than the human shell was able to show: A soul in searching for the ultimate truth, a predecessor of the fictional Fox Mulder in his stoic believe that the truth is out there and he would eventually find it. Whatever it was, somewhere over the rainbow an old man become young again right now might smile down on us, knowingly and with a smirk.
Happy birthday, Emil Joseph Diemer!
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