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Peter Hoffmann (chess composer)
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Peter Hoffmann (born 1955) is a German chess composer.
Peter Hoffmann is particularly known for his contributions to the Babson Task, including the first multi-move cyclic realization in an orthodox position without promoted pieces in the initial setup.[1][2][3][4]
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Biography
Hoffmann lives in Braunschweig, Germany, and works as a school librarian; in his free time, he is an avid hiker. In 2011, he was awarded the title of FIDE Master for Chess Composition.[5][2]
Compositional work
Hoffmann is active in orthodox moremovers with promotion themes. In 1986, he published a version of the Babson Task with four main echo promotions and no duals in the main lines, followed in 2009 by a version considered particularly clean with regard to secondary duals.[6][2]
In 2003, he proposed in the German magazine Die Schwalbe a cyclic Babson in #4, using promoted pieces in the initial position;[4] in 2005, he published in Schach the first cyclic version in an orthodox position without promoted pieces in the initial setup, which earned a Spezialpreis (special prize).[2][3]
In addition to original compositions, Hoffmann curated two technical surveys on the Babson theme in collaboration with Erik Zierke, hosted on the specialized site BerlinThema: the monograph 100 Jahre Babson-Task im orthodoxen Direktmatt (99 pp.) and the subsequent essay Das produktivste Babson-Schema. [7][8] These studies are frequently cited in recent chess composition literature.[9][10]
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