Josef Kling

Josef Kling (March 19th, 1811 with Mainz – December 1st, 1876 in London) was a German player of failures and a type-setter of studies of failures.

It was in the beginning musician of church and professor of music. In 1834 it settled with Paris where it earned its living while playing failures with the Café of Regency. Thereafter, in 1837 it was fixed at London.

In 1836 it published in the review of failures Palamède an analysis which became famous: the finale turn and insane against turn. Howard Staunton took it again in 1847 in its work Chess Player' S Handbook . In 1849 Kling published under the title The Chess EUCLID , a succession of 200 problems of failures. It made appear with Bernhard Horwitz in 1851 Chess studies a book devoted to Staunton which contained especially studies of finales. In a report of this book, the Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa thus explained the difference between the problem and the study: the problems are very appreciated, but the positions are characterized some by the fact that they are extremely natural and by there that one can easily meet them in the real ends of part. Moreover the task to be solved, sometimes very difficult, does not consist in obtaining the chechmate in a number of given blows but only arriving to a favorable position, and the number of blows has less of importance.

Between 1851 and 1853, Kling and Horwitz made appear the review The Chess Player in which they published new studies. The first Kling June 1852 opened in London in New Oxford Street a coffee of failures, the Kling' S Chess and Coffee Rooms , which existed until 1859 and was often attended inter alia by William Davies Evans. Kling remained present until its death on the scene of the failures and was honorary member of City off London Chess Club.

Josef Kling , Chess Weekly, 1849

Solution:

Ta4 Dxa4 First possibility
Th3+ Re4
Th4#

Or:

… Dc8 avoids the chechmate in h3
Th3+ Dxh3
Ta3#

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