[Retros] Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles; Fabel's source again

[Bernd Gräfrath]

Hello,

Max Weiss and Hieronymus Fischer were quite well aware of each other (as I learned when I read the "Wiener Schachzeitung" from 1898-1949 completely!).
So I guess that the latter would have corrected the former if he wrongly wanted to ascribe a problem to him.

Jeremy Gaige (in his book "Chess Personalia") gives the following pseudonyms of Max Weiss: "Antom Ph" (perhaps a misprint for "Anton Ph"), "Ernest Bisani", "Problematicus".

Like Mario, I would be very interested in early sources which ascribe the problem to Loyd. Of course it would be best if the original publication (by Loyd or Fischer) in a magazine could be found.
On the other hand, it is also possible that Fischer contributed originals to Weiss's book...

Best wishes,

Bernd





> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: "Mario Richter" <mri_two at t-online.de>

> Gesendet: 16.11.09 11:15:34

> An: "The Retrograde Analysis Mailing List" <retros at janko.at>

> Betreff: Re: [Retros] Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles; Fabel's source




> Hello,

> 

> >> 3N2R1/pp3p2/3K2p1/8/2pk4/3pp2p/3P1pB1/1Q4BR

> 

> > "H. Fischer" is certainly not a pseudonym. By now, I have found Fabel's source

> > for the problem:

> > It is in: Problematicus, "150 Schachkuriositäten" (Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1910),

> > page 13, and the author of the problem is given as "Hieron. Fischer".

> 

> I know Fabel's book, so I knew that the problem is there attributed to H.Fischer.

> My guess was, that - since Fabel's book as well as the one by Problematicus

> are only collections of problems published elsewhere, the attribution to H.Fischer

> might be only a misinterpretation of something like "H.F." - a pseudonym, that

> was used by Sam Loyd.

> 

> I took the information, that the above problem was composed by S.Loyd,

> from the book "Schachmatnaja Mosaika" by V.M.Archakov (Kiev,1984), where it is

> given as problem no.388 and even is surrounded by a little story, that explains,

> why Loyd composed this problem.

> 

> So it would be good to know the original source of the above problem.

> Anybody outthere who can help?

> 

> 

> > By the way: "Problematicus" really is a pseudonym (of Max Weiss)!

> 

> Another pseudonym of Max Weiss was "Traumulus".

> Are there any further "...us"-pseudonyms?

> 

> Best wishes,

> 

>   mario

> 

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