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Meisterwerke der Schachkomposition.
1998, 50 Seiten, geheftet, figurine Notation
Leonid Kubbel (1891-1942) was one of those who founded modern artistic study and, perhaps, the most prominent composer of the 1st third of this century.
He produced 2784 works altogether, both studies and problems, in all styles and genres. The most characteristic for his creative work was his deep feeling of culmination in his studies. Therefore his compositions are always attractive, and often are used as a bright methodical examples. Kubbel discovered many original ideas, the most important are discovered attack, favourable exchange, queen sacrifice for enticing purposes. He was first in decoy in fighting with one piece against three, opportunities for combinations in middlegame, echo-motives. White or black queen is often the main hero of his studies. A particular place in his legacy belongs to stalemate combinations, in which he is still incomparable with other composers. He discovered many stalemate positions and tricks, like a stalemate with a pin after Black's zugzwang. His main preoccupation was investigation and discovering the principles that govern the beauty in studies, combinational sense of single moves that form a logical consequence on the background of impressive and dramatical fight.
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