Harold Lommer

Harold Maurice Lommer (* 18 November 1904 in London; † 17 December 1980 in Valencia) was an English chess composer.

His life
Born to German parents, Lommer moved to Geneva with his family at the age of four. After studying in Germany, he returned to England in 1926. After the Second World War, he ran a nightclub in London's Soho district.

His interest in chess composition

At the age of 12, Lommer became interested in chess through the Saavedra study. Lommer worked on tasks in which several pawn conversions were shown. He wrote two important study anthologies, similar to the predecessor A Thousand End-Games by Creassey Edward C. Tattersall, and was also active as a chess journalist.

Great successes in chess composition

He was International Master of the FIDE for chess composition since 1974.He was International Judge of the FIDE for chess compositions since 1958.

Works

M. A. Sutherland & Harold M. Lommer: 1234 Modern End-Game Studies. 1937
Harold Lommer: 1357 End-Game Studies. The best chess compositions 1935–1973. 1975

Sources
Harrie Grondijs: No Rook Unturned. 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 90-74827-52-7, pp. 58-59.
Brian Stephenson: Harold Lommer. Online edition of the article in CHESS, May 2008, version of 28 June 2009, accessed on 8 September 2009.
Calendar page. In: Die Schwalbe, issue 210, December 2004. online version retrieved on 8 September 2009.

Weblinks
Compositions by Harold Lommer on the PDB server

About his problems and endgame studies

Harald Lommer was particularly interested in pawn substitutions and realised many tasks.
He shared this interest with the French master and chess composer André Chéron, and with the German study composers Rolf Richter.

Others: On Dutch Website ARVES 34 endgame studies by Lommer are selected.