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| (1) Posted by Diyan Kostadinov [Saturday, Mar 8, 2014 19:46] |
Women chess composers
Dear chess friends,
Today is the World Women's Day, so I decided to publish an article about the curent women chess composers. There is information, photos and selected problems of Julia Vysotska, Alena Kozhakina and Delia Duca. If you have information about more ladies chess composers, please inform me.
The article is here:
http://kobulchess.com/en/news/7-2011-07-31-17-09-09/502-women-chess-composers.html
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| (2) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Saturday, Mar 8, 2014 20:10] |
Gabriel Baumgartner definitely qualifies. :-)
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| (3) Posted by Joost de Heer [Saturday, Mar 8, 2014 21:42] |
Pascale Piet (France)
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| (4) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Saturday, Mar 8, 2014 22:03] |
I'm sorry Diyan, but the half century long contribution of our Honorary Master Odette Vollenweider should have been mentioned in the first place.
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| (5) Posted by Diyan Kostadinov [Saturday, Mar 8, 2014 23:19] |
Thank you Joost and Marjan!
Marjan, actually my idea was to present women composers of the present. But you are right that Odette is very important person and great composer, so will include her.
Joost (or someone else), can you help me to find a photo of Pascale?
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| (6) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 01:00] |
Diyan, Odette is a genuine composer (and much more) of the present! Apart from composing in 21st Century, she writes most valuable articles (Gafarov, Lobusov, etc). This year, you may follow her articles about Hans Johner, in Idee & Form.
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| (7) Posted by Diyan Kostadinov [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 01:14]; edited by Diyan Kostadinov [14-03-09] |
Great! Thank you Marjan for information. Now I look her problems in databases. Oh, how I missed her till now... Excellent composer! Also saw that she used a pseudonym Gabriel Baumgartner (in the first moment I didn't understand Siegfried when he noted this name)... Very interesting.
Now I preparing update of the article and tommorow will publish it.
Hope to find more about Pascale too... And also other women composers. Unfortunately they are very few, but deserve to be honoured with our attention.
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| (8) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 07:49]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [14-03-09] |
Depending on how you define "present", the late Elisabeth Gamsjäger (Austria) might also qualify.
The same can't be said about Edith Baird, of course, but she'd be quite the important name in a retrospective.
Alina Kozhakina also composed a few years ago, I think the then 15 year old (now around 20 year old) daughter of Vladimir Kozhakin of Magadan (Russia). There was some threemover with the four corners theme in MatPlus in I think Spring 2008.
Of the one-hit composers, we have "Chess Queen" Alexandra Kosteniuk with a first prized co-study, and there is a problem of the four year old Zsuzsa Polgár (now Susan Polgar).
Maybe "Batgirl" Sarah Beth Cohen could help, she seems to have a very broad knowledge about many chess topics?
http://www.chess.com/members/view/batgirl
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/archives.html
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| (9) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 12:49] |
For teh lulz:
It might be noted that I more than once got gender-confused,
due to my name which might sound like a crossover of
Frauke and Heike, both female. (But mostly to South Germans.)
Even on the SCHWALBE, the embarrasment factor was maximized
when someone, forgot his name, brought a correction where
he stated (roughly translated): "Now there is no more doubt
on the masculinity of Hauke, he sent a photo!"
(Not what you think. I wore a beard then. :-)
Hauke, who otherwise would probably be WGM by now :-)
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| (10) Posted by John Rice [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 13:12] |
I think Sally Lewis deserves a mention. Unsurprisingly, she composed in conjunction with her late husband Tony, but she has also produced some problems of her own, such as this one, which I published in The Problemist Supplement in September 2008. A neat mutate with the key 1.Sh2.  (= 10+7 )
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| (11) Posted by ioannis kalkavouras [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 16:04] |
Siegfried, is it possible to have more informations
about E.Gamsjager?. I first saw a few high-quality studies
of hers in Die Schwalbe, during the past decade, but nothing
more. Perhaps the language handicap has prevented
me from extracting myself, the details, that i'm now asking from
you.
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| (12) Posted by Diyan Kostadinov [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 16:30] |
Many thanks to all! Now the article was updated - Odette Vollenweider and Sally Lewis were included. (John if you can find some photo of Sally will be nice.)
I realized that to collect more information, compositions and photos of women composers is not so easy task.
I will be thankful to all who can send me useful info (preferably by email - dkostadinov@abv.bg) and periodically I will update the article.
Probably later will be good to be presented also the ladies from the past.
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| (13) Posted by Jacques Rotenberg [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 17:47] |
I don't know if Pascale Piet is a woman or a pseudo...
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| (14) Posted by Diyan Kostadinov [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 17:59]; edited by Diyan Kostadinov [14-03-09] |
Yes, I just received a reply to my email to Pierre Tritten and he told me that some french composers think that Pascale is probably a pseudonym of discreet composer (most probably a man).
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| (15) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 19:27]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [14-03-09] |
http://dieschwalbe.de/personalia262.htm
(my translation) On 24 June 2013 Elisabeth Gamsjäger, of Wien (Vienna), died. Being ravaged by disease, she started solving in Die Schwalbe a decade ago, later she also published a few studies and received at least one distinction.
http://forum.computerschach.de/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?tid=6113
According to Peter Krug, she received two honorable mentions.
hhdbiv lists a 1.hm in Die Schwalbe 2001 and a 2.c in Die Schwalbe 2005 at a total of 5 studies from 2001 to 2006 (but as is known, that database is from 2010 so more could have appeared in the meantime).
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| (16) Posted by Alexander Leontyev [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 19:49]; edited by Alexander Leontyev [14-03-10] |
Nadezjda Leontjeva (borned in 1928) has published over 220 problems.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CB%E5%EE%ED%F2%FC%E5%E2%E0,_%CD%E0%E4%E5%E6%E4%E0_%C0%EB%E5%EA%F1%E0%ED%E4%F0%EE%E2%ED%E0
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| (17) Posted by John Rice [Sunday, Mar 9, 2014 21:44] |
I'm interested to see the comments about Pascale Piet. Whenever I receive problems from this composer, I am struck by the similarity of the diagram-sheets to those used by the Carf brothers, Jean and Jean-Francois. And the address given by Pascale is close to where the Carfs live. It could just be, of course, that they all get their diagrams from the same source. I do hope someone can shed more light on this intriguing question.
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| (18) Posted by Jacques Rotenberg [Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:58] |
It might be that Carf is also a pseudo
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| (19) Posted by ioannis kalkavouras [Monday, Mar 10, 2014 05:21] |
Thank you, Siegfried!
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| (20) Posted by Alexander Leontyev [Monday, Mar 10, 2014 08:38] |
The book of Ajvazova "Queens of chess composition" contains problems of 109 women chess composers from different countries.
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