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{{Short description|Ukrainian-French chess player (1903–1967)}}
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'''Vitaly Halberstadt''' ([[20 March]] [[1903]], [[Odessa]] – [[25 October]] [[1967]], [[Paris]]) was a French [[chess]] player, problemist and above all a noted endgame study composer.<ref>[http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/halberstadt.htm Halberstadt<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
[[Image:HalberstadtVitali.jpg|thumb|right|Vitaly Halberstadt]]
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'''Vitaly Halberstadt''' (20 March 1903, [[Odessa]] – 25 October 1967, [[Paris]]) was a French [[chess]] player, theorist, problemist, and a noted [[endgame study]] composer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/halberstadt.htm|title=Halberstadt|website=heritageechecsfra.free.fr}}</ref>


Born in [[Odessa]], in the [[Kherson Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]] (present-day [[Ukraine]]), he emigrated to France after the Russian Civil War.
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]],<ref>[http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/paris.htm Champ Paris<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> tied for 5-6th in the 2nd Paris-ch 1926 ([[Leon Schwartzmann]] won), tied for 5-6th at Hyères 1926 (Baratz won),<ref>http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch20a.htm Britbase</ref> 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).<ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables9.htm Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


== Chess games ==
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.<ref>[http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=MDP&p=hn Philadelphia Museum of Art - Archives : Finding Aids<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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Halberstadt is also an author of "''Curiosités tactiques des finales''" (1954).
{| class="wikitable"
|+Chess games during Halberstadt's career<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables9.htm|title=Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938<!-- Bot generated title -->|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215163515/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables9.htm|archive-date=2010-12-15|access-date=2010-12-15}}</ref>
!Year
!Placement
!Competition or location
!Victor of year
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|1925
|1st place (shared with [[Abraham Baratz]])
| rowspan="2" |[[Paris City Chess Championship]]
|Halberstadt and Baratz
|-
| rowspan="3" |1926
|2nd place
|[[Leon Schwartzmann]]
|-
|5-6th places
|[[Hyères]]
|[[Abraham Baratz]]
|-
|1st place (shared with [[Peter Potemkine]])
|[[Paris]]
|Halberstadt and Potemkine
|-
|1927
|5-7th places
| rowspan="2" |[[Paris City Chess Championship]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Abraham Baratz]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1928
|10-11th places
|-
|1st-3rd places (tied with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and [[John O'Hanlon (chess player)|J.J. O'Hanlon]])
|[[Hyères]]
|Halberstadt, [[Marcel Duchamp|Duchamp]] and [[John O'Hanlon (chess player)|O'Hanlon]]
|-
|1930
|8th place
| rowspan="3" |[[Paris City Chess Championship]]
|[[Josef Cukierman]]
|-
|1931
|6th place
|[[Eugene Znosko-Borovsky]]
|-
|1932
|3rd place
|[[Oscar Blum]]
|-
|1938
|9th
|[[Paris]] (''L'Echiquier'')
|[[Baldur Hoenlinger]]
|}

== Publications ==
In 1932, Halberstadt published with [[Marcel Duchamp]] "''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=MDP&p=hn|title=Philadelphia Museum of Art - Archives : Finding Aids|first=Philadelphia Museum of|last=Art|website=www.philamuseum.org}}</ref> In this book, Duchamp and Halberstadt addressed the complication of the so-called "heterodox opposition", which is a precisely organized endgame that involved two kings and a handful of pawns.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910-1941|last=Joselit|first=David|publisher=MIT Press|year=2001|isbn=9780262600385|location=Cambridge|pages=174}}</ref> This concept has established a figure of immobilized reversibility between two subjective positions and two players.<ref name=":0" /> Within a condition where only two kings remain,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art|last=Witham|first=Larry|publisher=UPNE|year=2013|isbn=9781611682533|location=Hanover|pages=327}}</ref> the duo described the move in the following manner:<blockquote>The king 'may act in such a way as to suggest he has completely lost interest in winning the game. Then the other king, if he is a true sovereign, can give the appearance of being even less interested.' Until one of them provokes the other into a blunder.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sculpture in the Age of Doubt|last=McEvilley|first=Thomas|publisher=Allworth Press|year=1999|isbn=1581150237|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sculptureinageof00mcev/page/56 56]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/sculptureinageof00mcev/page/56}}</ref> </blockquote>Halberstadt was also the author of "''Curiosités tactiques des finales''" (1954).


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Vitaly Halberstadt

Vitaly Halberstadt (20 March 1903, Odessa – 25 October 1967, Paris) was a French chess player, theorist, problemist, and a noted endgame study composer.[1]

Born in Odessa, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), he emigrated to France after the Russian Civil War.

Chess games

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Chess games during Halberstadt's career[2]
Year Placement Competition or location Victor of year
1925 1st place (shared with Abraham Baratz) Paris City Chess Championship Halberstadt and Baratz
1926 2nd place Leon Schwartzmann
5-6th places Hyères Abraham Baratz
1st place (shared with Peter Potemkine) Paris Halberstadt and Potemkine
1927 5-7th places Paris City Chess Championship Abraham Baratz
1928 10-11th places
1st-3rd places (tied with Marcel Duchamp and J.J. O'Hanlon) Hyères Halberstadt, Duchamp and O'Hanlon
1930 8th place Paris City Chess Championship Josef Cukierman
1931 6th place Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
1932 3rd place Oscar Blum
1938 9th Paris (L'Echiquier) Baldur Hoenlinger

Publications

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In 1932, Halberstadt published with Marcel Duchamp "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.[3] In this book, Duchamp and Halberstadt addressed the complication of the so-called "heterodox opposition", which is a precisely organized endgame that involved two kings and a handful of pawns.[4] This concept has established a figure of immobilized reversibility between two subjective positions and two players.[4] Within a condition where only two kings remain,[5] the duo described the move in the following manner:

The king 'may act in such a way as to suggest he has completely lost interest in winning the game. Then the other king, if he is a true sovereign, can give the appearance of being even less interested.' Until one of them provokes the other into a blunder.[6]

Halberstadt was also the author of "Curiosités tactiques des finales" (1954).

References

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  1. ^ "Halberstadt". heritageechecsfra.free.fr.
  2. ^ "Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938". Archived from the original on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
  3. ^ Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Archives : Finding Aids". www.philamuseum.org.
  4. ^ a b Joselit, David (2001). Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910-1941. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780262600385.
  5. ^ Witham, Larry (2013). Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art. Hanover: UPNE. p. 327. ISBN 9781611682533.
  6. ^ McEvilley, Thomas (1999). Sculpture in the Age of Doubt. New York: Allworth Press. pp. 56. ISBN 1581150237.
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