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I don't know what that title means. It publishes many problems/studies and occasional games. (It used to publish alongside the Netherlands CC magazine until that ceased being a paper publication.)
This month, a miniature study is included:
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In addition, this month, it features the famous Yanofsky win over Botvinnik with a picture of young Yanofsky.
“The history of the study can be put together from two books, Bruce Hayden’s Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings, and John Roycroft’s Test Tube Chess. At Christmas 1921 the 25-year-old Joseph was travelling by train from Warrington to Manchester (an 18 minute journey). He was on his way to the Manchester Chess Club with his Christmas present, a portable chess set, which had been given to him with a challenge: to compose a chess ending every day for a week. On the journey he composed the setting, which has become most quoted (Ks b8, d8, Ps a2, h7). His idea was the stalemate by 2.Qxa1. Quoting from Hayden: “At the time I thought the position a good joke in being wound up to a draw in this way,” Joseph explains. “When I found the hidden win for White I considered it quite pretty but never for a moment thought that the study would become a classic.” On arriving at the club he showed the position to the expert player Victor Wahltuch, who was so enthusiastic that it attracted the attention of a chess columnist seeking material for a Christmas feature. However Joseph attempted to add to the difficulty of the solution, and so the first setting published was that with rook and bishop starting 1.Bf2+, published in the Sunday Express on 27th December 1921. The other setting (Ks b8, d8, Ps a2, h7) was published in the Hackney Review (incorporating the British Chess Journal) on 18th February 1922, and also in the British Chess Magazine for February 1922. The BCM was the first source, which gave the composer’s name! According to Roycroft, the version beginning 1.b6+, by an unknown composer, was published in Ceskoslovenska Republika on 7th October 1923.
I think that somewhere in EG magazine there is an article about David Joseph, if you would care to go through the online issues (EG Archive) at
I don't know what that title means. It publishes many problems/studies and occasional games. (It used to publish alongside the Netherlands CC magazine until that ceased being a paper publication.)
Is there a website for the magazine (De Postduif)? I did some googling,
but I think Google interpreted the search string as an indication I can speak Dutch
and showed me *way* too much stuff...
My daughter-in-law is Dutch, but they are away on holiday at the moment so I cannot ask for her help!
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