Pierre Drumare | |
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| Born | 26 October 1913 Trouville-sur-Mer, France |
| Died | 15 April 2001 [1] Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | chess composer |
| Era | 20th century |
Pierre Drumare (born 26 October 1913) was a French chess composer.
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Pierre Drumare composed problems in a variety of genres: direct (especially multiple-move problems), retrograde analysis (including selfmates), helpmates, and fairy (heterodox). [2]
Memorial Camil Seneca, 1980
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He is particularly known for his long-term attempt to construct a complete Babson Task over more than twenty years, from 1960 to 1982 [3] . In 1982 he published the result of his efforts in the article Mon dernier pas vers l'impossible ("My last step toward the impossible") in the magazine Thémes-64, which he had founded a few years earlier. However, the position was illegal, and Drumare acknowledged that he had not fully achieved the task. [4] [5] The following year, the Russian composer Leonid Yarosh succeeded in publishing a fully legal and economical complete Babson Task. [2]
