Friedrich Amelung
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Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (23 March 1842 – 22 March 1909) was a Baltic German
chess
player, endgame
composer, and journalist.
Amelung was born at Võisiku
manor in Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire
(present-day Jõgeva County
in Estonia
). He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen
, Gustav Neumann
, Carl Mayet, Emil Schallopp
, Andreas Ascharin
, Emanuel Schiffers
. Between 1888 and 1908 he edited the chess magazine Baltische Schachblätter.
He published about 230 endgame studies. He died in Riga
.
Baltic German
The Baltic Germans were mostly ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, which today form the countries of Estonia and Latvia. The Baltic German population never made up more than 10% of the total. They formed the social, commercial, political and cultural élite in...
chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player, endgame
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
composer, and journalist.
Amelung was born at Võisiku
Voisiku
Võisiku is a village in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County, in central Estonia. It's located about 5 km southwest from the town of Põltsamaa. Võisiku has a population of 376 ....
manor in Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
(present-day Jõgeva County
Jõgeva County
Jõgeva County , or Jõgevamaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in eastern part of the country and borders Ida-Viru County to the north-east, Lake Peipus to the east, Tartu County to the south, Viljandi County to the south-west, Järva County to the north-west and Lääne-Viru County to...
in Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
). He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen
Adolf Anderssen
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...
, Gustav Neumann
Gustav Neumann
Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann was a German chess master.Neumann was born in Gleiwitz in the Prussian Province of Silesia. In matches he lost to Louis Paulsen at Leipzig 1864, and defeated Celso Golmayo Zúpide , and Simon Winawer at Paris 1867...
, Carl Mayet, Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp was a German chess player and author. He became head of the shorthand department of the Reichstag. He wrote many books, including one on the Steinitz–Zukertort 1886 World Championship match...
, Andreas Ascharin
Andreas Ascharin
Andreas Ascharin was a Baltic German-Russian chess master.Ascharin's father was Russian, his mother was from a Baltic German family. He read law in Dorpat . Between 1875 and 1879, he worked in Saint Petersburg as a journalist for the St. Petersburger Zeitung and the St. Petersburger Herold...
, Emanuel Schiffers
Emanuel Schiffers
Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin.Schiffers parents emigrated from Germany...
. Between 1888 and 1908 he edited the chess magazine Baltische Schachblätter.
He published about 230 endgame studies. He died in Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
.
External links
- Statistics at ChessWorld.net
- ARVES Composers biographical data.
- Lewis Stiller: Multilinear Algebra and Chess Endgames, in: Games of No Chance, 29 (1996), p. 151-192 (Amelung's contribution to endgame analysis)