Max Friedrich William Bezzel (4 February 1824 – 30 July 1871) was a German
chess composer
A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrograde ...
who created the
eight queens puzzle
The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires that no two queens share the same row, column, or diagonal. There are 92 solutions. ...
in 1848.
External links
Biography (in German) of Max Bezzel
1824 births
1871 deaths
Chess composers
19th-century chess players
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