Karl Fabel

Karl Fabel ( born October 20, 1905 in Hamburg, † March 3, 1975 in Pischertshofen ) was a German chess composer and author.

Fable studied law and chemistry, in chemistry, he earned a doctoral degree. He first worked as a judge in the patent system, and later he was in Munich Senate President of the German Patent Office.

Chess composition

Fable dealt with the chess composition and composed about 1250 chess tasks, including miniatures, Retro tasks and long-stretch Matt. Many of his problems were included in the FIDE Albums. Also problems from the " Chess and Mathematics" found his interest. Fable was not a tournament player.

He was involved as an official with the association The swallow. The FIDE appointed him in 1964 to the International Referee for chess composition and 1967 to the International Master of chess compositions.

Two examples

Matt in 182 trains

In the above position White to train.

Black is in a quandary. Is he on the train, so he can pull silently with no figure on the kingside without being checkmated immediately after two trains. Not to be set equal to matt, he can only make pawn moves, make the dark-squared bishop Waiting for trains or where possible offer Chess. White can with king maneuvers that allow his opponent no chess, black bring in a tight spot, so no waiting move with the rotor without rotor loss for Black is possible. Black must therefore use up all his pawn moves. Strikes Black farmers g3, the knight takes back with chess bid. Then pulls the black king to g1, so the jumper jumps back to e2, and then the black king must move to h1 again. If the white king on c8 and Black has lost all kingside peasants, he must, if he wants as long as possible to delay the mat, wait and see sacrifice his bishop on b8 and then draw a figure on the kingside. Then he is stymied by two trains.

It is M17 (or M19), the maneuver Kd8 - e7 ( f8 - g7 ) - f6 - e5 d4 - c3 - b4 -a4 -a3 - b4 - c3 -d4 - e5 - f6 - e7 -d8 - c8 and m11 the maneuver Kd8 - e7 -f8 - g7- h8 - h7 g7 -f8 - e7 -d8 - c8. For Black, the following two variants offer.

Variant 1 (164 moves): M19, g5; M17, h6; M17, h5; M17, h4; M17, h × g; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, g3; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, g4; M17, g3; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, Lb; KXL, Lf3; TxS, K g2; Se3

Variant 2 (182 moves): M19, h6 (where his black farmers g7 can not be white during the maneuver, so Kd8, Lb; Ke7, g5; Kf8, g6, ...); m11, h5; m11, h4; m11, gxh; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, g3; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, g4; M17, g3; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, g5; M17, g4; M17, g3; Sxg, Kg; Se2, Kh; M17, Lb; KXL, Lf3; TxS, K g2; Se3

Avoid Matt

In the above position White to train. Which train black is not set immediately matt?

Solution: 1.Tc6 Txh7

Works

Fabel's publications dealt often with both chess problems as well as with mathematical questions on the board, as with the women's problem or Springer walks. How many trains can be a chess game maximum stand when you consider the 50 - move rule? Some books also go into the areas of chess entertainment and curiosities and belong to the standard literature:

  • Cabaret, Franz Palatz, William Massman, Karl Fabel, 1943, reprint 1963, Werner Speckmann
  • On the edge of the chessboard, Karl Fabel, 1947
  • Something about chess problems, Karl Fabel, 1950
  • Around the chessboard - amusing and interesting facts chess, Karl Fabel, Walter De Gruyter & Co, Berlin, 1955
  • Curiosities chess, Karl Fabel, Walter Rau Verlag, 1960
  • Chess and number - Entertaining chess mathematics, Eero Bonsdorff, Karl Fabel, Olvai Riihimaa, Walter Rau Verlag, Dusseldorf 1966
  • Chess without Frontiers, C. E. Kemp, Karl Fabel, Walter Rau Verlag, Dusseldorf, 1969
  • Introduction to the problem chess, Karl Fabel, chess publisher Rudi Schmaus, Heidelberg 1976
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