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

[Bernd Gräfrath]

Of course! I should have noticed...

Best,

Bernd



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> I would guess that "Antom Ph" is not a misprint, just a suggestion of 

> something immaterial.

> Regards to all.

> Tom Volet

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> From: Bernd Gräfrath <retromode at web.de>

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

> source again

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> 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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