Bedrich Formanek (1933-2023)

Slovak chess composer

A folder with ca 130 letters and cards sent to him by various Slovak, Czech and other composers

Also 20+ photos

 

Folder with ca 130 Letters and cards + ca 22 photos from various mostly (not only) from Slovak and Czech composers from the estate of Slovak composer Bedrich Formanek.

Good to very good: light signs of use, no major flaws.

Folder size ca 31x 27 cm. The weight 1,670 grams

All the letters are addressed to Bedrich Formanek

Most items are signed

 

The folder includes following letters/cards:

 

4x Andrej Ancin (Slovakia)

6x Jan Agarski (Slovakia)

2x Jan Baxa (Czech)

1x Vladislav Bunka (Czech)

3x Jan Fabry (Slovakia)

5x Alexander Fica (Slovakia)

1x Adriano Chico (Italy)

1x Friedrich Chlubna (Austria)

1x Milos Gontko (Slovakia)

1x Imrich Ivanco (Slovakia)

1x J. Karel (Czech)

4x Karol (probably Mlynka) (Slovakia)

2x Lubos Kopac (Czech)

1x Vaclav Kotesovec (Czech)

6x Jozef Linder (Slovakia)

1x Bohuslav Lukas (Slovakia)

1x Comins Mansfield (GB)

3x Artur Mandler (Czech)

2x Ilja Mikan (Czech)

1x Milos Marysko (Czech)

4x Milan Nemcek (Slovakia)

1x J. R. Neukom (Hungary)

1x Vladimir Pachman (Czech)

3x Jiri Podgorny (Czech)

1x Ladislav Prokes (Czech)

2x Emil Palkoska (Czech)

3x F. J. Prokop (Czech)

2x Milos Seckar (Slovakia)

1x Ottavio Stocchi (Italy)

1x Josip Prokop (Croatia)

1x J. Rada (Czech)

2x Bretislav Soukup-Bardon (Czech)

2x Jan Sefc (Slovakia)

1x Viliam Stancik (Slovakia)

3x  Stefan  Sovik (Slovakia)

1x Ivan Sindler (Czech)

3x Josef Sutara (Czech)

1x Tel Aviv – sheet signed by cca 20 persons, probably composers, among them Bedrich Formanek, Uri Avner, undated 

4x Frantisek Tesak (Czech)

1x L. Ungvary (Slovakia)

2x Jiri Vesely (Czech)

2x Jan Valuska (Slovakia)

2x Jozef Vilem (Slovakia)

1x W. West (England)

1x Josef Volf (Czech)

ca 40-50 not identified letters/cards

ca 22 photos, ca half of them b/w and half in color

 

Biographical data:

Bedrich Formanek (1933-2023), Slovak chess problem composer, author of many hundreds of problems. He wrote more than 10 books and edited more than 7,000 chess columns in various newspapers. President of the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) in 1994-2002.

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