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PROBLEMS : AN INDEX
Between January 1950 and December 2009 the British
Chess Magazines Problem World column included
more than 5000 originals, as well as a significant
number of compositions previously published
elsewhere. Other sections of the magazine have also
featured problems. Taken together these constitute a
rich resource for any problem connoisseur having
access to a significant run of the magazine.
Hunting down problems by a specific composer can,
however, be a challenging task. Access to the originals
is to be had via annual indexes, though it is to be noted
that for one year at least 1991 the index has entries
for Problem World but none for the names of
individual composers. However, in the nature of things
not every owner of a back run of the BCM will possess
all the relevant indexes. A further difficulty arises from
the fact that, in recent years in particular, the annual
indexes have originals as their main or even exclusive
target. The 1968 index, included in the March 1969
issue, is unusual in its inclusion of entries for Quoted
Problems, as well as for problems appearing in
Quotes & Queries. The 1992 index carried a formal
announcement, Originals only indexed, thereby
establishing a trend which has continued to the present
day.
A further deficiency of the annual indexes is that their
coverage has in general been restricted to the contents
of Problem World. My objective, on the other hand,
has been to include entries for all problems published
in the magazine between January 1950 and December
2009, whether in Problem World, in the Fairy Chess
column hosted during the 1950s by Dennison Nixon, in
Quotes & Queries (under D.J. Morgan, 1953-1978,
Q&Q was a regular source of problem art) or in general
articles, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc. An
indication of the riches the new approach may have
uncovered is to be found in the case of Sam Loyd,
three of whose compositions graced the magazines
pages in 1984, but with only one finding its way into
the annual index.
In identifying problems as my target category I have
followed the Oxford Companion to Chess in defining
the genre as compositions accompanied by [a]
stipulation stating that one side is to give mate, or
achieve some other aim, in a set number of moves.
Such compositions are distinguished from studies in
that the latter do not specify a set number of moves and
have win or draw rather than mate as their
objective. While most of the problems indexed here
follow the traditional pattern (White to mate in ) I
have included entries for construction tasks such as
W.T. Brandhorsts position in which all seven of the
white pieces have been captured and it is possible to
determine on which square each has been captured
(1980, p.431). For studies a separate index is under
consideration.
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p.144, 208, 241, 251 (3), 380, 476 (3) (two cooked:
see 1975, p.271; also 1975, p.511); 1975, p.175,
272, 320, 554; 1978, p.587 (3) (one cooked: see
1979, p.285-6), 588; 1979, p.381; 1983, p.416,
559; 1984, p.30, 220; 1987, p.412; 1988, p.223,
558; 1989, p.319; 1990, p.320, 367 (2); 1998,
p.221, 331; 2006, p.443; 2007, p.667; 2008, p.443
Morse, Sir Christopher Jeremy & Ban, Jen, 1972,
p.39
Mortensen, Jan, 1956, p.44; 1961, p.224; 1964, p.374;
1965, p.184; 1975, p.224
Moseley, A., 1959, p.316
Moskovic, David, 1997, p.109; 1998, p.667
Moutecidis, Paul, 1963, p.379 (2) (one has no solution:
see 1964, p.159); 1964, p.251, 252; 1965, p.311;
1966, p.367; 1967, p.218, 220 (cooked: see p.312);
1968, p.148 (cooked: see p.239); 1969, p.99; 1970,
p.272 (cooked: see 1971, p.42); 1972, p.155; 1973,
p.143; 1976, p.271; 1979, p.432
Mowry, Harold Conrad, 1952, p.376; 1953, p.232;
1955, p.176
Mller, A., 1991, p.524
Mller, Dieter, 1973, p.176, 272; 1976, p.127; 1979,
p.287
Mller, Dieter & Hoffmann, Fritz, 1978, p.479
Mller, F., 1990, p.270
Mllner, Kurt, 1980, p.220
Mundwiler, Leslie, 1971, p.385
Murarasu, Ion, 1974, p.300, 380
Murkisch, Godehard, 1973, p.144; 1984, p.219; 1986,
p.319; 1989, p.318
Musante, Horacio L., 1950, p.70, 244 (2), 276 (see
also p.351); 1951, p.81 (cooked: see p.171), 260
(2); 1952, p.32 (cooked: see p.91), 92, 122, 212 (2)
(one cooked: see p.267), 310 (2); 1953, p.88, 231;
1954, p.28, 98, 236; 1955, p.352; 1956, p.54, 316,
318; 1957, p.56, 108; 1963, p.320
Musson, Roger, 1974, p.476 (cooked: see 1975, p.271)
Muthuswami, N., 1955, p.204
Myllyniemi, Matti, 1965, p.31; 1970, p.297; 1976,
p.127; 1978, p.192, 287; 1979, p.558; 1980, p.220;
1981, p.509; 1983, p.461; 1987, p.172; 2003, p.549
Nagnibida, Nikolay Ivanovich, 1970, p.244; 1977,
p.336; 1978, p.240, 333
Nagnibida, Nikolay Ivanovich & Budkov, Nikolay
Pavlovich, 1971, p.268; 1972, p.402
Nagy, Odn, 1950, p.71; 1962, p.332
Nair, E.P., 1966, p.32, 340; 1967, p.32, 64, 155; 1968,
p.148; 1969, p.155
Nanning, Frederik Willem, 1959, p.352
Narayanan, C.G.S., 1975, p.368, 464; 1976, p.79, 127,
175 (2), 416, 528, 576 (cooked: see 1977, p.285;
also correction, 1978, p.94); 1977, p.48, 287, 587;
1978, p.45, 239, 429 (2); 2001, p.555
Narayanan, C.G.S. & Brown, David L., 1977, p.239
Nascimento, Raul C., 1988, p.415; 1993, p.326; 1994,
p.163 (2)
Nascimento, Raul C. & Mariz, Gabriel, 1986, p.516
(see also 1987, p.28, 462)
Nasoufis, Domenico, 1986, p.127; 1989, p.318
Nasra, Gabriel G., 1960, p.230
Navon, E., 1988, p.174
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