Sunday’s tactics training
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
SUNDAY’S TRAINING SESSION
”If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.”
Lance Armstrong_________________________________________________________________________
Today’s tactics exercises are from Grandmaster Hans Donner’s games. The solutions can be found at
http://www.wtharvey.com/donn.html
Unless stated otherwise, White to play and win in each example
Today’s tactics exercises are from Grandmaster Hans Donner’s games. The solutions can be found at
http://www.wtharvey.com/donn.html
Unless stated otherwise, White to play and win in each example
Donner vs Franz Jacob, Munich, 1954
Donner vs Josef Lokvenc, Munich, 1954
White Mates in 3. Donner vs Bent Larsen, Wageningen, 1957
White Mates in 4. Donner vs Octav Troianescu, Wageningen, 1957
Donner vs M Jonkman, Amsterdam, 1958
Donner vs Henk Van Donk, Amsterdam, 1958
Donner vs Edgar Walther, Zurich, 1959
Donner vs Gyula Kluger, Budapest, 1961
White Mates in 4. Donner vs Arthur Dunkelblum, Beverwijk, 1964
Donner vs Silvino Garcia Martinez, Habana, 1964
Donner vs Rene Letelier, Habana, 1964
Donner vs Bent Larsen, Santa Monica, 1966
Donner vs Guy Mazzoni, Hague, 1966
Donner vs Maarten Etmans, Leeuwarden, 1969
Donner vs Bertus Enklaar, Amsterdam, 1973
White Mates in 6. Donner vs Ricardo Calvo Minguez, Nice, 1974
White Mates in 5 (2 solutions). Donner vs Luis Santos, Algarve, 1975
Donner vs Paul Van Der Sterren, Groningen, 1980
Donner vs Herman Grooten, Leeuwarden, 1981
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Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster (GM) and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959. He was the uncle of the current Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner
Donner was also a chess columnist and writer. He was famous for his outspoken and often outrageous columns about subjects such as women, politics, and fellow Dutch Grandmaster Lodewijk Prins, whom Donner claimed “cannot tell a knight from a bishop”.
On August 24, 1983 Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened “just in time, because when you are 56 you do not play chess as well as you did when you were 26”. After surviving the stroke, he went to live in Vreugdehof, which he described as “a kind of nursing-home”. He was unable to walk, but had learned to type with one finger, and wrote for NRC Handelsblad and Schaaknieuws. In 1987, the book De Koning (“The King”) was published, which contained 162 of his chess columns, all but the last written between 1950 and 1983, collected by Tim Krabbé and Max Pam. Also in 1987, Donner received the Henriёtte Roland-Holst Prize, one of the Netherlands’ most prestigious literary awards, for Na mijn dood geschreven (“Written after my death”), a selection from the mini-columns he had written for NRC Handelsblad. On November 27, 1988, Donner died of a gastric hemorrhage.
In 2006, New in Chess published an English translation of De Koning, entitled The King: Chess Pieces.
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