George Edward Carpenter
March 25, 1844 - February 17, 1924
First, Middle and Last Name: George Edward Carpenter |
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Date of Birth: March 25, 1844 |
Date of Death: February 17, 1924 |
Name of Father: Ward Carpenter (1813 - 1889) |
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Name of Mother: Frances Pugsley Carpenter (born Ward) (1815 - 1895) |
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Birth: Tarrytown, Westchester, New York |
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Residence(s): (1850) Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York; (1860) Greenburgh, Westchester, New York; (1870) Greenburgh, Westchester, New York; (1880) Greenburgh, Westchester, New York; (d.) Tarrytown, Westchester, New York; (burial) Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York |
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Siblings: Ward Carpenter (1835 - 1835); William H. Carpenter (1836 - 1849); George Henry Carpenter (1838 - 1838); Charles Theodore Carpenter (1840 - 1916); Susan Elizabeth Carpenter (1841 - 1851); Emma Louisa Rathbun (1844 - 1923); Frances Carpenter (1846 - 1852); Harriet L. Carpenter (1848 - 1921); Josephine Frances Frost (1858 - 1924) |
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George Edward Carpenter was an American chess composer. He mainly composed direct problems in two and three moves. He was known to finish his work with great care, in some cases even for years. Sixty problems by him were published in American Chess-Nuts, a collection of 2406 problems by Western Hemisphere composers edited by Eugene B. Cook and others in 1868. Orestes A. Brownson, editor of the Dubuque Chess Journal, published a selection of his problems in the book Chess Problems (Rockdale, Iowa, 1886) and then about two hundred problems by him in Carpenter's Chess Problems (Dubuque, 1888). Numa Preti also published two hundred problems by him in the book 200 problèmes d'échecs de George E. Carpenter, 1860-1900 (Paris, 1901). He also became interested in some mathematical aspects of chess, such as the eight queens problem. Translated from People Pill.
George Edward Carpenter (1844-1924) learned to play chess when thirteen, started to compose problems a year or two later and continued to do so for nearly sixty-five years. Following Sam Loyd's early period of activity and before Shinkman became prominent, Carpenter for a time was the most distinguished active American composer.
Although, like Cook, some of his problems appear old-fashioned in comparison with modern standards of composition, a number of Carpenter's were definitely strategic and many of them had sparkling keys. From “Chess Problem Gems by Eight Eminent American Composers”, Pg. 41. Composed by Kenneth S. Howard, Dover, 1972
Carpenter, George Edward
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March 25, 1844 - February 17, 1924- George Edward Carpenter, 1860
- George Edward Carpenter, 1870 bio + additional games
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- George Edward Carpenter, 1920
- George Edward Carpenter, 1924 bio + additional games
