AOctober 15 1911
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sunday, October 15, 1911
DR. ADOLF DECKER.
The subject of our sketch this week belongs to that exclusive set having a record of over 1,000 published chess problems. He was born December 6, 1858, in Rhenish Bavaria (Palatinate), and began composing problems that 1884 as pupil of the celebrated chess historian and composer, Herr Otto Koch. While in Germany the doctor composed 285 problems, and since coming to this country in 1889, composed 995. He was chess editor of “Westen & Daheim,” a German newspaper published in Chicago, from October, 1907, to May 1911, when, through ill health, was compelled to lay down his editorial pen.
