Who was F. Sackmann??

All Things Chess
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Looking through an older chess magazine I came across an endgame article with a position attributed (in 1922) to F. Sackmann. When I tried to ‘Google’ F. Sackmann & chess I did get a number of listings for endgame problems attributed to F. Sackmann, but no listing for any biographical information. I was curious if there are any games by F. Sackmann, and what his connection was to chess in general.

The problem was Black King on d8, White King on d6, Black Bishop on g8, Black pawn on e4, and White Rook on c5. White to move and win.

-Larry S. Cohen

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There’s not much on Franz Sackmann (1888-1927), author of over 120 compositions. Edward Winter doesn’t have any articles on him, but a few problem sites list some of his compositions. No games in the ChessBase “Big Database.”

German Wikipedia indicates he ran a chess journal in Germany for a time (use Google translator).

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Thanks for the information. I was a little curious about someone named Sackmann in chess.

-Larry Cohen