Alois Wotawa
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Alois Wotawa (11 June 1896 – 12 April 1970)Script error: No such module "Unsubst". was an Austrian composer of chess problems and endgame studies. He was born and died in Vienna. He was a prosecutor and a member of the Nazi Party.[1]
Composition career
Wotawa composed more than 350 endgame studies, which were published particularly in German-speaking countries. Wotawa also composed some problems that he called "bungled endgames".[2]
In 1966, FIDE honored Wotawa as an International Master of Chess Composition.
Example endgame study
In the following study, White finds an amazing move to force a draw.
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Solution:
1. Ne5 Rd2+
2. Ke3 Re2+
3. Kd4 Rxe5
4. Rf6!! Forks the bishop and rook. If Black protects both with 4...Ra5, 5.Rg6 wins the pawn and draws. There remains only 4...g7xf6 stalemate.
Works
- Alois Wotawa: Auf Spurensuche mit Schachfiguren - 150 Endspielstudien [German language]. Vienna, 1965
References
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- ↑ Source for this and the following: Friedrich Chlubna: An Artist has left us, in: EG Vol. 20, pp. 119 to 121. August 1970 (in PDF at [1] Template:Webarchive.)
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