Johann Sehwers
- Birth Date:
- 28.06.1868
- Death date:
- 05.11.1940
- Length of life:
- 72
- Days since birth:
- 56940
- Years since birth:
- 155
- Days since death:
- 30512
- Years since death:
- 83
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- Chess player
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Johann Sehwers (Latvia, 28.6.1868-5.11.1940)
Significant chess composer of endgame studies
He was born in Lewimani (Latvia) and lived in Riga, but after he married a German woman settled in Germany, adapting his name to a Germanic form
Doctorate in philosophy. Sehwers was passionate about composition and came to create a wealth of interesting studies.
He published a book "Endspielstudien" (Berlin and Leipzig, 1922) that he dedicated to his wife.
Source: Website arves.org
Others: 33 endgame studies by him are selected with solution on Website arves.org. (Selection was made by Mario Guido García)
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