Don't invite this problemist for your simul... Edouard Pape
The head photo was published in the Excelsior of 21.05.1922, accompanied by the caption: "M. Pape jouant aux echecs sur la tour Eiffel pendant la guerre"! It was part of an article of Edouard Pape, probably cause of his at the time recent win over Capablanca in a simul exhibition.
Edouard [Alfred] Pape [1870-1949], a French antique expert, was mostly known as a problemist, and specifically as a two mover composer. Knight of the Legion of Honor and author of La variante F.VIII du Gambit Camulogène [a chess inspired novel of 1923], he was president of the Union des Problémistes de France, and vice president of the international Good Companion Chess Problem Club, Philadelphia [surely since 1915]. He also seems that took active part in World War I...
Though he frequented at the Cafe de la Régence, the Cercle Philidor, the Rotonde, his activity as a chess player is really less recorded. I've only tracked him participating in the famous tournament at the Cafe de la Régence of 1907, where Marshall was defeated by Antoniadi [check American chess bulletin. v.4 (1907), p. 169]. But he seems to be a simul killer...
He had beaten Janowski during a 40 board simul in Feb 1900...
He was the only one to defeat Pillsbury later that year [Jun 1900] during a 12-board blindfold exhibition with a miniature...
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And besides a mention of a Bernstein simul that I've found [no date or other info], he was the only who won Capablanca, then world champion, on May 15, 1922...
And two photos of this simul
Pape won Capablanca with the Caro-Kann, an opening that is hardly found among Capablanca's games when he played with white. Only at some other simultaneous games I've tracked it.
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This success possibly gave him the opportunity to play a game of living chess, with 15th c. costumes, in Compiegne [FRA] one year later, on May 20, 1923. His opponent was Andre Muffang and the game was drawn by repetition...
Game as pubished in Bulletin de la Fédération Française des Echecs
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... and just two photos from gallica collection [23 photos]
As a problemist he was renowned enough so to give his name to a problem composing pattern, the Pape theme. According to Cheney [in Chess Review, 1937 p. 65]: "the newly discovered Pape Theme: — Double PxP e.p, with double discovered check and double line opening. This limited but beautiful idea has been intensively worked by foreign composers, especially in France, but has not received much attention from American composers."
Just a 2 mover of this pattern to solve...
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... and three more of this theme on paper
Besides this theme just five more of his two movers. Publications are mentioned as found by me, not necessarily the first ones...
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thanx for reading....
