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No. 65 (Vol. IV) No. 65 (Vol. IV) July, 1981 In December 1979 Alexander Herbstman nent author who has known personally (b. 1900) left the USSR as a Jewish so many of the study world's great Rus- emigrant accompanied by his wife and sian and Soviet composers, but also to daughter. They now live in Sweden. The his daughter Marina, who largely pro- following article is original to EG and vided the translation, and to the good owes its existence not onlv to its emi- offices of Alexander Hildebrand. MEMORIES OF FAMOUS COMPOSERS by A. Herbstman In my childhood 1 lived for a long time to learn from". After I had taken them in Switzerland. Weggis is near Lucerne, I realised that they were indeed the col- on the shore of the VierwaldstatterLake. lections of Troitzky and the brothers it was there that 1 learned to play Piatov. chess, but my interest in chess compo- sition came much later when I lived in Moscow, working and studying at a Vasily Piatov was of middle height, with Higher Institute of Literature and Art. brown hair and blue eyes. Later he introduced me to his brother Matvey My first studies were composed in 1924. (ie, Matthew). Matvey looked very like 1 took them to the Shakhmaty editorial his brother except that his hair was staff. A very tall, slim man received reddish. As I was living in Moscow I me most warmly. It was Nikolay Grekov. met them time and again. In due course Not only did Grekov pay my composi- I found out that the majority of the tions the utmost attention, but he intro- ideas in their studies were Vasily1 s, but duced me to Vasily Platov, then very they always worked together and the famous, whom he asked to choose some- atrribution of a diagram was invariably thing for publication in the magazine. "V. and M. Piatov". Piatov stopped at one of the studies, the one that 1 myself thought the best. Their views on chess aesthetics could be "To stan with well publish that one", learned from listening to them. Here he said. '"And meanwhile, carry on with is one of their pronouncements. Tike the good work! ... By the way, do you any other art form the study has to know the studies of Alexey Troitzky, meet the criteria of form and content. and have you seen the anthology by me The content is some idea or other ex- :md my brother?" 1 had to confess that pressed either as a combination or as apart from the studies published in positional play. Perfection of form lies Shakhmaty during 1923 I knew nothing. in simplicity of construction. The simpler Piatov whispered something to Grekov, the introduction the stronger is Uie who thereupon took two solid books from effect of highlighting the concealed id s the cupboard, saying These are for you of the position.*' 429 •z principal creative problem they saw H2 be the necessity "to display as fully 1. Bf6 d4 ;• ssible the struggle of assorted force, 2. Se2/i aiQ order to show combinations and to 3. Scl Qa5/ii r zdi the special characteristics of the 4. Bxd4+ K- nous pieces, and, with all this, methods 5. Sb3-K •.ittack and of defence Studies must •, c the appearance of a played game". i) 2. SO? alQ 3. Bxd4+ Qxd4 4. S\d4 Kxd4 5. Kg4 Kxd3 6. Kg5 Ke4 7. Kho HI V. and M. Pistov Ut Prize ShaK':u!'roeC!x\p«ue, 19! Kf5 8. Kxh7Kf6 9. h6Kf7. ii) 3. ..., h6 4. Be5 Kd2 5. Sb3t. But why is this? Is it because the win is achieved by observing the strictest economy of means? Is it because Black, resisting with great effect, is nonetheless a victim of weaker white force9 Or is it perhaps because White endeavours by every means to avoid a draw? Maybe so, but what really enthuses us is that the banal the ordinary, is defeated by Win 8 + 6 the power of the mind." The brothers Platov continued working HI together for more than a quarter of a i Sf7 Qe6+ 8. Kg2 Qe6 century. 2. Kh2 g4 9. Kgl g3 3. Kgl g5 10, i5e5+ Kd4 In that same year, 1924, I made the i. Kfl Qa6 11. SO+ Kc4 acquaintance of Nikolay Grigoriev, Mos- <; Kg2 Qe6 12. Sd2+ Kd4 cow's chess champion of that time, who 6. Kgl a5 n. c3+ Kd3 was already renowned for his amazing 7 Kfl Qa6 14. Se5+. pawn ending positions. We became very close friends. He was five years older than I, having been born in 1895. His III and H2 are two of the Platov's best father was a violinist, and his grand- studies and are typical of their artistic father an Armenian priest creativity. Here is Emanuei Lasker's Having to choose between the violin opinion of H2: "Any chessplayer will and the chessboard he finally came to derive intense pleasure from this study. the conclusion that he should put chess firss. He was not mistaken, for chess H2 V. and M. Platov brought him world fame. 1st Prize, Rigaer Tageblatf, 1909 He was a person of rare appearance, quite tall, elegant, dark-complexioned, with regular features, and hair of the blackest hue. His eyes were also black, and were lively and kind. Over many years he was the head of the chess section of "Izvestiya", playing a major role in the development of chess compo- sition in Russia during that period. He and I spent the summer of 1925 in the Caucasus, at Nalchik, where 430 my parents had a country place. In the H4 daytime we went riding in the valleys, 1*. Kg* 2 Kc7 while at night we monopolised a chess- 2. KO Kd7 board. His compositions were famous 3. Kf4 Ke6 not only in Russia, but far beyond its 4. Ke4 b6/i boundaries. For instance when Grigo- 5. Kd4 d5 nev competed in "La Strategics" tourney 6. Ke3 Ke5 he ran away with every one of the 7. Kd3 d4 major prizes. 8. Kc4 Ke4 stalemate H3 N.D. (irijsorie\ 2nd Prize, "64", 1930-1 i) The echo line is 4. ..., d5+ 5. Kd4 Kd6 6. b6 Ke6 7. b5 Kd6 8. b4 Ke6 9. Kc5 Ke5 stalemate. H3 and H4 should please all who can tune in to the wavelength of chess beauty. In H4 the composer consum- mates two midboard stalemates, as echoes. Grigoriev created unsurpassed examples of pawn studies, but he also paid atten- Win tion to other configurations, such as H3 bishops on the same colour, with a single 1. f4 Kb4 pawn, a theme on which he composed 2. h4 (15 several works. Our friendship lasted un- 3. f'5 Kc5 til 1938. In the early autumn Nikolay 4. h5 d4 told me that the doctors had diagnosed 5. f6/i Kd6 appendicitis and that he had to go into 6. h6 d3 hospital. I visited him there. One day 7. (7 Ke7 they forbade me to see him. It turned 8. h7 d2 out that they had operated but that Niko- 9. fi8Q + Kxft lay had caught an infection which turned 10. h8Q+ wins. septic. At that time medicine was not i) 5. Kg2(gl) Kf6 6. f6 is a known cook. so advanced. There was no penicillin, Both sides promote, and 9. Qfl+ wins. and they could not save his life. He was 43 years old. You can imagine my distress. In 1934 I embarked upon a course of H4 N.D. Grigorir* post-graduate study in Leningrad. It was 2nd Prize, Shakmatny List ok. 1929 there that I made friends with our greatest composers, Alexey Troitzky and Leonid Kubbel. Troitzky was a forest warden in the back- woods. He was 68 in the year 1 moved to Leningrad, and that was when he came to live there too. It was the time when he prepared his collection of stu- dies to be published. He was alone, and I helped him to check and anno- tate them. His ideas were fresh, but 431 because he had spent most of his life ned with the ending two knights against in out-of-the-way places his themes be- pawn. It is expressed here in classically came known to the chess world only simple form with lively, double-edged later, and often when worked up by play. other composers. Examples of this are: piece struggles, domination, systematic H6 A.A. Troitsky manoeuvres, stalemate, mate, underpro- motion. All these were worked on by Troitzky much earlier than by other com- posers. In his theoretical articles the technique of the art of contemporary study composition is exhaustively ex- pounded. On the outbreak of war (ie, in 1941, when German forces invaded the USSR, not the earlier September 1939 date familiar to Britain and France. AJR) the threat to Leningrad became very real. I hurried to Alexey and tried to persuade him to leave with me. He H6 rejected the idea. He died of starvation 1. d6 Sxa6/i during the long blockade. 2. d7 Rg3+ 3. hg Sxc5 H5 A.A. Troitsky Novoye Vremya, 18% 4. d8S wins/ii. Version 1922 i) 1 ed 2. cd Sxa6 3. d7 Rg3+ 4. hg Sc5 5. d8D wins. ii)4. d8Q(R)?Se6+ 5. K-Sxd8. Having failed to rescue Troitzky 1 then telephoned Kubbel, asking him to help me with my suitcases to the railway station. He agreed. On the way to the train I already knew (Herbstman was a major in the Soviet Army.
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