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Adolph Jay Fink
Ua Tane

2622 Good Companions 07/1920
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P1039371
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1. Tc8! (Zugzwang)
1. ... dxc6 2. Td8#
1. ... d6 2. e6#
1. ... e6 2. De4#
1. ... fxe5 2. Dxd7#
1. ... Sxc6 2. Sc7#
1. ... Sc5 2. Sxb4#
1. ... Sd4 2. Sf4#
1. ... Td4 2. Sc3#
1. ... c3 2. Lxb3#
1. ... Sxa6 2. e6#
1. ... Sa2,Sxc2 2. e6#
1. ... Tc3,Td2,Td1 2. Le4#
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'Öffentliche Sicherheit': "... Fülle schöner Matts. Eine Häufung von Eigensperren, dazu ein erster Zug 'Zugszwang mit verändertem Matt'. Ein Kunstwerk von hoher Vollendung."
Die Volksstimme gibt 'A. J. Fink und Na Tane' als Autoren an.

Im Urdruck vermutlich Ua Tane als Coautor.
Ua Tane = James Frank Stimson; zu dem Namenswechsel (also kein Pseudonym) heißt es in 'The Spectator', 22.02.1968 in einer Anmerkung zu dem Komponisten: "The composer was the Gauguin of the chess world, settling in the South Sea Island of Moorea and being given the name Ua Tane (instead of James F. Stimson) on his marriage there."

Im 'The Good Companion Two-Mover' heißt es zu diesem Problem: "The amazing part of the story is that Ua Tane believes the problem to be of supernatural origin. He had made several seven self-blockers, and thought eight might be possible. So he wrote Fink, suggusting the idea, and later gave the idea to another friend, who was an amateur medium. On the night he gave the idea to his friend, Fink dreamt the position of No. 48D, but without an orthodox key. When this imperfect version reached Ua Tane, he studied it carefully and the next night the key came to him, also in a dream. Neither composer had ever the experience of composing in sleep before, and at least Ua Tane is convinced that the inspiration was received by both composers through the agency of the medium. What ever the reader may think in the matter, the problem itself is proof that someone was "inspired".

Laut Wind.Ztg. entthronte das Problem mit seinen 8 Selbstblocks den vorherigen, 37 Jahre bestehenden Rekord von C. Planck, 1883 [P1222613].
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Keywords: Brian Stephenson Collection (24327), Selfblock, Zugzwang-Goal
Genre: 2#
Computer test: Popeye 4.61
FEN: K7/2Rpp3/N1P2p2/3kPQ2/Rnp5/Bn1rpP2/2B1N3/8
Reprints: 48D The Good Companion Two-Mover 1922
1 Öffentliche Sicherheit (Wien-Graz) 5-6 03/1924
13 Rigaer Jüdische Rundschau 07/12/1929
13 Windausche Zeitung 07/12/1929
12 Schweizerische Arbeiter-Schachzeitung , p. 22, 03/1930
Mate in two moves 1931
Schach-Echo , p. 156, 07/1935
A3 Enjoyment of Chess Problems 1943
7 Deutsche Schachhefte 9, p. 38, 01/1950
67 Problemkunst im 20. Jahrhundert 1956
63 Volksstimme (Chemnitz) 11/02/1961
70 The American Two-move Chess Problem 1962
Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art 1963
70 The American Two-move Chess Problem , p. 50, 1965
FIDE Album 1914-1944/I 1971
22 Problème 78 07/1971
Europa-Rochade , p. 20, 05/1984
3 German Solving Championship 1993
Schach-Echo 8, p. 218, 04/1993
548**) Chess Problems: Tasks and Records 2016
SH3916 Gmünder WochenBlatt-Lokal 21/09/2016
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