Letter to Fritz Englund

Author: Eric Ernest Westbury (1881-1939) signedYear: 1913Publisher: Self publishedPlace: BirminghamDescription:One page typed letter signed to Fritz Englund (6" x 8") submitting a 3 move problem for publication. Addressed from his residence in Birmingham. Fritz Englund (1871-1933) was the problem editor of Tidskrift for Schach. Problem not included, but was published later in the magazine in 1913.Fritz Englund was a noted problemist and the Englund Gambit was named after him inadvertently. The opening was invented by Karlis Betins (1867-1943). He published his analysis "Konigsbauer gegen Damenbauer" in Deutsche Schachzeiting 1930. Two years later Englund, the leading chess figure in Sweden, sponsored a thematic tournament, held at Stockholm in late 1932 and 1933. Every game had to begin with Betins' main line. Probably because Betins' article had already been forgotten, or - more probable - because Englund died shortly afterwards, when chess magazines reported his death, they rarely fa