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A documentary-style work about chess.
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The correspondence between John Selman and Theodorus Kok stretched out over many years. A challenge made by Kok in 1942, was the start of many recurring attempts at the construction of a pleasing endgame composition in which for starters a Knight and a Bishop must overcome a black Knight. Soon Jan Marwitz came to their help. The settings in their letters varied and their insight grew, but with that came fresh complications each time they thought the composition neared its perfect setting. Finally, in 1947, the three of them found an ideal setting for their briljant gem, shown on the next to last page of this booklet that is set together from the authentic fragments of this matter in their correspondence.
The epilogue by HHG is epiphanic. All the hours spent by the three composer-friends have been to no good purpose. Each of the two forked final mating variations had been anticipated at least as far back as 1928 and 1930 by the Russian composers Bron and the Sarychev brothers and had been adapted nearly a dozen times as finals of other compositions since then.
Pamphlet. 32 pages. Stapled. Rijswijk 1996.
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