Masazumi Hanazawa

Masazumi Hanazawa (Japan, 28.11.1943 - 06.11.2007)

Masazumi Hanazawa was one of the pioneering chess problemists in Japan. He was the inventor of the now-popular fairy condition Annan, which was first proposed in Chessics 4 (1977).

In AnnanChess, when a piece has a piece of the same colour on a square directly behind it, it has the movement capabilities of that piece instead of its own. AnnanChess is also called Southern Chess.   Source: chess composets

According to the JapanGeorge Jelliss reports the death of Masazumi Hanazawa, who was the inventor of An-nan or Southern Chess (ECV 2 page 170, and see also "Proof Games" in the present issue) and contributed several problems to our predecessor Chessics.

Professor of mathematics at Tokai University

According to the Japanese problemist Tadashi Wakashima, he was a professor of mathematics at Tokai University, and was a keen composer of problems of all kinds: chess, shogi, and go problems, and mathematical puzzles. Here is the eponymous An-nan problem, from Chessics 4 :

Burial
Tama Cementery (Fuchu City)
Grave site 24-1-11