Deutscher Schachbund, 1887 (5th Congress, Frankfurt am Main)

single #4 (4 pr.)

single #3 (4 pr.)

Open to all; free for members, others had to pay a fee to participate. Problems became the property of Deutscher Schachbund.

M. Kürschner, C. Schwede

1886-04-15

a: #4	1 pr.	J. Berger (Motto: Kunst nicht Künstelei)
	2 pr. =	F. Dubbe (Frisch gewagt)
		H. v. Gottschall (Res severa verum gaudium)
		F. af Geyerstam (Lady Jane)
	3 pr.	K. Kondelik (A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire)

	hm.	J. Jespersen (Tento)
		J. Pospišil & J. Kotrč (Ad impossibile nemo tenetur)
		A. Bayersdorfer (La botte dà del vin che ha)

b: #3	1 pr. =	J. Jespersen (Tento)
		R. Adam (Paradiesisch)
	2 pr. =	J. Obermann (Im Thale grünet Hoffnungsglück)
		J. Pospišil & J. Kotrč (Ad impossibile nemo tenetur)
	3 pr.	E. Krieger (Ich hab's gewagt)

	hm.	J. Berger (Kunst nicht Künstelei)
		H. v. Gottschall (Res severa verum gaudium)
		A. Decker (Heiter ist die Kunst)

( '=' indicates a shared prize.)

Deutsche Schachzeitung

42/2 (Feb., 1887), p. 53: announcement.

42/3 (Mar., 1887), p. 69–70: congress program, with correction of program tourney requirements.

42/5 (May, 1887), p. 159: received problems/mottos.

42/8 (Aug., 1887), p. 229–235: short report; award winners & selected problems

42/8 (Aug., 1887), p. 256: correction of misprint of 3 pr. #3 (p. 233)

Der Fünfte Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes : Frankfurt a. M. 1887
hrsg. C. v. Bardeleben, H. v. Gottschall, J. Mieses (Leipzig : Veit & Comp., 1889)

p. 5–6: program for problem tourney

p. 20–23: summary report, including faults

p. [276]–283: selected (?) problems

The original announcement required sets of #4 + #3; the later program corrected this to allow also single problems to compete.

34 contestants sent in 31 four-movers and 31 three-movers. Seven #4 and eight #3 were found to be faulty, and excluded from competition.

Several of the problems are suspected of having been published before the publication in Deutsche Schachzeitung, as indicated below.

The 1 pr. #4 (J. Berger) was found to be faulty soon after publication: R. Mangelsdorf is credited with the discovery, which was not originally printed in Deutsche Schachzeitung, which noted the fault on the last page of the issue in which the problem was printed. A correction (by Berger) appeared in Deutsche Schachzeitung 42/11 (Nov., 1887), p. 348–350 , together with a suggestion, apparently from the editors, that tourneys should include a period of public scrutiny of preliminary awards before the final awards were decided.

The 2 pr. #4 (F. Dubbe) was also corrected after the tournament (Deutsche Schachzeitung 43/3 (Mar., 1888), p. 76), though it is not clear if this correction was made by the author or not.

The congress book reprinted both of these corrections, but noted only the first as the originally faulty problem had been one of the problems selected for the solution tourney.