Friedrich Amelung

Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (born 11 Märzjul / March 23 1842greg in Catherine ( Meleski ), Livonia, .. .. † 9 Märzjul / March 22 1909greg in Riga) was a Baltic industrialist, chess player and writer. Between 1889 and 1901 he published the Baltic chess leaves.

Life

Friedrich Amelung was born into a family of industrialists who immigrated late 18th century in Germany and in the part of the government of Livonia, which now belongs to Estonia, was established. After graduating from the Gymnasium in Dorpat (Tartu ), he studied from 1862 to 1864 at the University of Dorpat philosophy and chemistry. After that, he lived in various Baltic cities, before moving in 1902 to Riga.

Carl Philipp Amelung (1769-1817), grandfather of a chess player, had founded in 1792 after the village Woiseck at Oberpahlen ( Põltsamaa ) called " mirror-glass factory under Woizek ". In a lowland bog north of the lake Wirz ( Võrtsjärv ) then mirror factory Catherine and Glashütte Lisette were built ( the site was located about thirty kilometers west of Dorpat, where the occasional words " Catherine at Dorpat " explained ). In 1864 Friedrich Amelung took over the management of the factory mirror and the existing company since 1818 Amelung and son together with his brother- Benrath.

Besides his work in all areas of chess, he dealt in different plants with the Baltic history. Friedrich Amelung died in Riga. The final resting place he found on the ( between Catherine and Woiseck located ) small cemetery of St. John.

Baltic chess master

Members of the Amelung family have long been known as a strong chess player. In particular, a Karl Friedrich Amelung is mentioned that " was summoned to Petersburg to show his skills in front of the Prince Potemkin ".

Friedrich Amelung continued the tradition continued successfully. On his frequent trips to Berlin, he found an opportunity to cross successfully with the best German masters the blades. Between 1860 and 1877 Amelung played without success against Adolf Anderssen, Gustav Richard Neumann, Carl Mayet and Emil Schallopp. In 1877, he won a match against Andreas Ascharin 5:4 ( 4, -3, = 2), but lost to Emanuel Schiffer 4:8 ( 2, -6, = 4). However, his real area remained the analytical and compositional direction. As for the literary study of the game of chess, Amelung is also to be regarded as the first Baltic chess historian.

In various magazines Amelung was editor of a chess column. From 1889 to 1901 he was in eight booklets out the Baltic chess leaves, a chronicle of the chess life of this region and also a platform for journalism, theoretical and historical chess articles. Finally Amelung was a co-founder in 1898 and until 1901 the first secretary of the Baltic Chess Federation.

Study Composer

From 1879 to 1885 Amelung lived in Reval and developed a lively collection activities Baltic Chess notes. He composed many chess problems and endgame studies. In total, he has published more than 230 studies, including some miniatures. Attention has been particularly his contributions to the theory of non- farm playoffs. Subsequently, one of his analytical studies:

Solution: 1 Dh3 -e3 e2 Sf4 - 2 Kc3 Tf1 -d3 - f2 3 De3 -d2 Ke1 -f1 4 Kd3 -e3 Tf2 h2 On King trains wins fifth De1 ( ) 5 Dd2 -d1 After conquest of the knight wins the lady against the tower.

Publications (selection)

  • Baltic Culturstudien from the four centuries of the Order of time (1184-1561), Dorpat in 1884 (reprint: Hannover 1971) ISBN 3-7777-0944-1
  • Baltic cultural and historical pictures Atlas, Dorpat 1886-1887
  • Baltic Chess sheets, 8 books ( 1889-1891, 1893, 1898, 1900-1901 ), Reprintausgabe, Publishing House Moravian Chess, Olomouc oJ
  • " The endgame of the tower and knight ", in: German chess magazine, 1900 (55 ), pp. 1-5, 37-41, 101-105, 134-138, 198-202, 261-266.
  • " The endgame of the tower and knight against the lady ," in: German chess magazine, 1901 ( 56 ), pp. 193-197, 225-229.
  • " The playoffs with Qualitätsvortheil, especially the final of the tower and bishop against bishop and knight ", in: German chess magazine, 1902 (57 ), pp. 265-268, 297-300, 330-332.
  • "For the final game of checkers against bishop and knight ," in: German Chess Week, 1903, p 384
  • (along with Arthur Gehlert ) " The oldest London chess circles in St. Marin Street ", in: German Chess Week, 1904, p 29
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