Vitaly Halberstadt

Vitaly Halberstadt

Vitaly Halberstadt (20 March 1903, Odessa25 October 1967, Paris) was a French chess player, problemist and above all a noted endgame study composer. [ [http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/halberstadt.htm Halberstadt ] ]

Born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russian Empire), he emigrated to France. In 1925, he shared 1st with Abraham Baratz in the 1st Paris City Chess Championship, [ [http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/paris.htm Champ Paris ] ] tied for 5-6th in the 2nd Paris-ch 1926 (Leon Schwartzmann won), tied for 5-6th at Hyères 1926 (Baratz won), [http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch20a.htm Britbase] shared 1st with Peter Potemkine at Paris 1926, tied for 5-7th in the 3rd Paris-ch 1927 (Baratz won), tied for 10-11th in the 4th Paris-ch 1928 (Baratz won), tied for 1st-3rd with Marcel Duchamp and J.J. O'Hanlon at Hyères 1928, took 8th in the 6th Paris-ch 1930 (Josef Cukierman won), took 6th in the 7th Paris-ch 1931 (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won), took 3rd in the 8th Paris-ch 1932 (Oscar Blum won), and took 9th at Paris 1938 ("L'Echiquier", Baldur Hoenlinger won). [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables9.htm Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938 ] ]

In 1932, he published with Marcel Ducham"p "L'Opposition et les cases conjugées sont réconciliées", a chess manual dedicated to several special end-game problems, for which Duchamp designed the layout and cover. [ [http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=MDP&p=hn Philadelphia Museum of Art - Archives : Finding Aids ] ] Halberstadt is also an author of "Curiosités tactiques des finales" (1954).

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