Vladimir Bron

Vladimir Akimovich Bron ( born 14 September 1909 in Nikolayev, Russian Empire, now Mykolaiv, Ukraine; † 1 October 1985 in Sverdlovsk, Russian: Владимир Акимович Брон ) was a Russian chess composer.

At the age of eleven years Bron learned the game of chess. But only in 1920 after his relocation to Kharkov he started at chess club in the city, which was led by Alexei Alexandrovich Alekhine Alexander Alekhine 's brother, to systematically deal with the chess literature. 1928-1946 he hit on the chess board on a number of Soviet masters. However, he felt more for chess composition, especially to the studies drawn.

Composition

1924 Bron published his first task, two years later won two of his studies first awards. Substantial momentum was in the years 1930 and 1931 his meeting with Leonid Kubbel and since 1927 his friendship with Korolkov.

Bron was from 1956 International Judge for Chess Composition since 1976 and Grandmaster for chess composition. He composed about 400 studies and more than 600 other chess compositions. Among the approximately 440 awards that he received, there were 80 prizes.

In three-and multi Zügern preferred Bron pattern Matts, where he worked out unnoticed, takes place with the help of the black king closure. However, his favorite genre were the studies in which he tried to mutually full-fledged game, subtle motivation of the trains, originality and depth of thought to bring. He worked there from the subjects of wide apart standing farmers, sequential synthesis, perpetual check threat and counter fields of the Kings.

The dynamic interplay of all white pieces to the first award-winning study Brons for domination lady. solution: 1 Tc7 - c8! DF8 a3 2 Sf5 -d4 KB5 - b6 3 Rc8 - b8 KB6 - c5 4 Rb8 - b5 Kc5 - d6 5 Tb5 -d5 Kd6 - e7 6 Td5 - a5! Da3xa5 7 Nd4 - c6 Ladies profit through the fork.

Private

Bron was a doctor of engineering science. He worked in the chemistry of the silicate technology and in the development of fire-resistant materials. In his field, he published 150 scientific papers. After the Second World War he lived in Sverdlovsk.

Works

• Genrich Gasparjan with Vladimir Bron: Sovietskiy schachmatnyj etjud - sbornik. Moscow, 1955
• Vladimir Bron: Isbrannije etjudi i sadatschi. Moscow, 1969
• Orest Awerkin and Vladimir Bron: V poiskakh shalkmatnoi istin. Sverdlovsk, 1979