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HHdbIV
Harold van der Heijden
Amsterdam, Oktober 2nd 2010
Chess Art
• Composition
• Composers
• Étude
• Theme
• Composition tourney
• Judge
Endgame study
• White wins
• Wit draws
• A unique solution
• Spectacular, surprising
Endgame study tourney
• Judge (“FIDE-arbiter”) evaluates studies
• Which is the best (most beautiful) study?
• However: originality?
Originality
• Anticipation vetting
• Approximately 90.000 endgame studies published
• Collections (cards)
Tattersall (ca. 1910)
John Selman: archive 1940-1970
Alexander Rueb
Other famous collections
• Lamare (France): ca. 1900-1935: approximately 10.000 cards
• Kasparyan (Armenia): ca. 1960-1990: approximately 30.000 cards
Anticipation service
• John Richard Harman (England): 1905-1986
• Over 40.000 studies
• Ordered by themes
František Macek (Czech Republic): 50.000 cards
Computer file
• Harold van der Heijden
• Since late 1980’s
• HHdbI (1991): 23.358
• HHdbII (2000): 58.801
• HHdbIII (2005): 67.691
• HHdbIV (2010): 76.132
Endgame study database
• Original sources (magazines)
• Secondary sources (books)
• Card collections (e.g. Selman, De Feijter, Macek, but also: Lamare)
• Co-operation with foreign experts
Use of database
• Anticipation service for tourney judges
• Source for articles and books
• Tool for composers (idea already known?)
• O.t.b. play: training of calculation ability and endgame tactics
Statistics
Composer # studiesErnest Pogosyants 1954Henri Rinck 1718Alexey Troitzky 1620Ladislav Prokeš 1194David Gurgenidze 929Michael Bent 860Bernard Horwitz 761Filip Bondarenko 683Genrikh Kasparyan 656Aleksandr Kuznetsov 646Vitali Kovalenko 574Julien Vandiest 559Tigran Gorgiev 535Iuri Akobia 528Jindřich Fritz 517Joseph Kling 515
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HHdbIV historical
Kling & Horwitz 1851
WW I WWII
End of Soviet Union
CQL
• Chess Query Language– Lewis Stiller & Gady Costeff
– Developed for HHdbIII!
– Script-based
– Very powerful
– Freeware
– (Implemented in Chess Assistant)
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CQL
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First copies
Yochanan Afek
224 studies
Jan Timman
183 studies
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