Bruno Breider

Ernst Bruno Evald Breider ( 24 July 1907 Viipuri - 13 April 1995 ) was a chess player, author of chess problems and organiser of Finnish chess organisations, journalist and chess author. He was awarded the title of national problem master in 1979 for his achievements as a chess problem writer.

Breider's life's work was in the service of the state railways .

es ViiSK in 1931, he was promoted to the first division.

 In the following years, he diligently took part in the club's tournaments and often placed well there. His best successes in ViiSK competitions include first place in spring 1934, second place in autumn 1934, second place in spring 1935 and victories in spring 1936, autumn 1937 and autumn 1938 .

In 1936 Breider took part in the unofficial Chess Olympiad, better known today as the Munich National Games. As 1st substitute, Breider scored four points from ten games (3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats). In 1936, Breider also took part in the 10th league tournament of the Finnish Chess Federation, where he finished in seventh place. During his years in Vyborg, Breider took part in the Vyborg Championship Tournament several times. He came second in 1934, 1937 and 1938. He finally won the city championship in 1944.

In the period between the Winter War and the Continuation War, Breider lived in Helsinki . He took part in the Helsinki Championship Tournament, held for the first time in 1941, and finished third in the B group. He took part in the same race twice more. Due to the continuation of the war, the organisation of the next competition was postponed and the second Helsinki Championship tournament was not held until 1945. At that time, the competition was held in a group and Breider finished sixth in the competition. The last time he took part in the competition was in 1949, when he finished third, which was his best placing in the Helsinki Championship Tournament. The 1949 championship was won by Kaarle Ojanen .

After the war Breider moved to Helsinki and became a member of the Helsinki General Chess Club (HYS). He finished third in the Class I tournament organised by the club in 1946 and won the 1947 event. He also took part in the Nordic Federation tournament in 1947, but only finished eighth in his group. In 1950, Breider was second in the invitational tournament for Class I master players organised by the Central Chess Federation of Finland (SKSL), behind Pentti Koskinen, who was later awarded the rank of chess master. Since then, Breider has represented the Helsinki Railway Chess Club (HeRauS). In railway chess he won the VR championship five times. 

In 1955, the Finnish Chess Federation decided that a separate rank for master candidates should be established between the first class and the master class. [8] At that time, the Central Chess Federation of Finland (SKSL), at the suggestion of the Finnish Chess Federation (SSL) and the Workers' Chess Federation (TShL), appointed the first players to the master candidate category on the basis of their tournament success.) Breider was promoted to Master Candidate the following year, 1956. According to the rules at the time, the title of Master Candidate was not permanent, but could be lost, for example due to match cancellations or poor results. The category "master candidate" was used in the Toyvaen Chess Union since 1953. Breider remained in the "Master Candidates" category until 1966. Later he played only rarely and concentrated mainly on preparing chess tasks, acting as a task judge and organisational activities.

Organisational activities 
Breider had a long career in Finnish chess organisations. He began his career in the Viipur Chess Club, where he was a board member from 1933 to 1939.  Among other things, he served as treasurer of the club. In 1955-1958 he was a board member of the Helsinki Chess Federation.  In the first year he worked as the union's equipment manager. At the same time, he was also a board member of the Finnish Chess Federation from 1956 to 1957.  He held the last important representative position in the Finnish Central Chess Federation (SKSL) in 1967-1968.  Nowadays SKSL is known as the Finnish Chess Federation.

Breider created his real career in Suomen Tehtaväniekoi . In 1963, he received the ST Honour Tour Award in recognition of his activities as a member of the ST and for his task-related merits. He was made an honorary member of ST in 1978.

Author and juror of assignments 
Breider's design career lasted from the 1920s to the 1980s. His first task was a three-move checkmate problem published in Karjala-lehti in December 1926. Since then he specialised in end problems, the first of which was published in Karjala-lehti in 1933. Breider prepared a total of 80 endings, 67 of which were published. He prepared 15 other tasks (including checkmate tasks and as auxiliary checkmate). He qualified six missions for the FIDE albums presenting international championship missions, for which he received eight album points.

Breider achieved success with his chess missions at home and abroad. There were 14 completed missions in domestic competitions and 19 in foreign competitions. Even in the 75th anniversary competition of Visa Kive in 1980-1981, he took fifth and ninth place in his final tasks. He was awarded the title of "National Task Master" in 1979 for his merits as a draughtsman. 

In addition to his work as a drafter, he also served as an administrator at several national and international drafting competitions. In recognition of his work as a judge of drafting competitions, he was awarded the title of Federal Task Judge in 1970, his area of expertise being final tasks. 

From 1959, Breider chaired the National Chess Problem Solving Championship several times.  In 1974, the competition was organised for the 18th time. Hannu Harkola was the main judge of the competition at that time. Breider was in the running as judge and trustee.

Chess author and editor 
During his active time, Breider was a keen chess author and journalist. For several years he edited chess sections in magazines and wrote several chess books. While living in Vyborg, he edited the chess column of the newspaper Karjala from 1935 to 1939.  After the war, between 1948 and 1951, he headed the last task section of Finnish Chess.  The section presenting the chess tasks of Suomen Chess was divided into two parts, namely the final task section and the actual task section. In the final tasks section, first editions of final tasks created by task leaders from different countries were published. Other chess tasks (checkmate tasks, auxiliary checkmate and self checkmate) and task chess news (including the results of draft competitions and biographies of drafters) were published in the task section. During Breider's editorship, the Tasks Department was headed by Leo Valve in 1948 and after him by Jan Hannelius from 1949 to 1951. Breider had to give up his editorial work for health reasons.

Together with Osmo Kaila (1916-1991) and Aarne Dunder (1914-1988), Breider wrote the works Aufgabenschach 123 finnische Schlussaufgaben and Toiset 123 finnische Schlussaufgaben . The latter was originally published in 1971 in editions 7 and 8 by Suomen Shaki. [18] The works contain a selection of Finnish final tasks from 1946-1971 and are a continuation of the previously published 111 Finnish Final Tasks (1946) by Aarne Dunder and Arnold Hinds (1896-1952).

Osmo Kaila was editor of the chess column in the Finnish Social Democrat from 1964 to 1971. From the materials published in Kaila's chess columns, Breider later edited, together with Kaila and Kerttu Örlund, the book Saturday Chess: 363 Chess Columns Published in Suomen Sosialidemokraati 24.12.1964-31.12.1971 , which was published in 1975.

Publications 
Bruno Breider, Aarne Dunder and Osmo Kaila: 123 Finnish Final Exercises. A collection of competition tasks from 1946-71 . 1972. WSOY, Helsinki. ISBN 951-0-00003-5
Bruno Breider, Aarne Dunder and Osmo Kaila: Another 123 Finnish final tasks. A collection of competition problems from 1946-71 . In the magazine Suomen Chess No. 7-8/1971. 1972. ST, Helsinki.
Bruno Breider, Kerttu Örlund and Osmo Kaila (eds.): Saturday Chess: 363 chess columns published in Suomen Sosialidemokraati 24.12.1964-31.12.1971 . 1975. People's Power, Helsinki.
Sources 
Palamaa, Pekka: History of the 70th anniversary of the Finnish Chess Federation . Tampere: Finnish Chess Federation, 1992.

References

Bruno Breider is the new editor of our last problem section, Suomen Chess 2/1948
Roycroft, John (ed.): EG 122 (PDF) October 1996. gadycosteff.com. Archived 4 January 2012, cited 01.07.2013.
 In the list of military honours, Breider's third name is given as Edvard. Genealogia.fi: List of honours and commemorative medals awarded by the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Armed Forces in the Winter War 1939-40, which could not be delivered to the recipients ( Archived - Internet Archive)
 Our thanks to Bruno Breider, Finnish Chess 2/1952
 Bruno Breider 75 years old, Finnish Chess 6-7/1982
Unofficial Chess Olympiad: Munich 1936 OlimpBase . Quoted on 19/11/2013 (In English)
 Helsinki Championship Tournaments Helsinki Chess Federation. Cited on 19/11/2013.
 Palamaa, pp. 79-80.
 Palamaa (1992), p. 83.
HSL-Boards ShakkiNet . Cited on 19/11/2013.
 Palamaa (1992), p. 241.
ST's Honorary Tour Award ( Archived - Internet Archive) Suomen Tehtaväniekat 25.2.2012 Cited on 7.1.2013
Kopnin, AG: EG 70 (PDF) January 1983. gadycosteff.com. Archived 7 February 2012. cited 01.07.2013.
 Task Chess Values of the Finns(Archived- Internet Archive) Suomen Tehtaväniekat 26 Aug. 2011 Cited on 7 Jan. 2013
Finland's 18th Solver Championship , Finnish Chess 1/1974
Issue 37353
Change of editors - reorganisation , Suomen Chess 2/1952
 Timo Kallio: Task chess manual, p. 191, Suomen Tehtaväniekat, 1995
Information on Saturday Chess Worldcat.org 

Source: Wikipedia

Chess compositions

About his 88 endgame studies: 

He composed very original pieces that are complicated because of numerous deep punchlines and sacrifices.

Others: on Website ARVES are 20 original works selected by Breider. (Selection made by Mario Guido García)