Rolf Richter (chess composer)

Rolf Richter (born May 26, 1941 in Oederan; † January 14, 1988 there) was a German chess composer.

Rolf Richter played chess on the Progress Oederan team when he was young. Around 1961 he began composing chess. He published several three-move and moremover tasks as well as auxiliary and self-checkmate tasks. But his main interest was  the endgame study of chess.

In the 1970s he became the most successful study composer in the GDR. By concentrating on tasks, he won a double-digit number of prizes and other awards. Richter composed around 80 endgame studies.

According to Dr. Rainer Staudte, Richter was a strong smoker.

After Richter’s death, Dr. Rainer Staudte waited for too long until he visited the house – many documents already have been lost. 

Web links
18 Chess compositions by Rolf Richter (chess composer) on the Schwalbe PDB server

Source: German wikipedia              

              Website ARVES.org by Peter Boll

Others: 3 endgame studies composed by him are selected on Website ARVES (arves.org)