chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

There was 6uch a.rimony between rival suppoF
teB. One man hired xn or-Ean-eriflder to Play
ouiside ihe windo* knowing lhis *ould uPset
t-dwenthal more than HarMitz, and anolhcr,
defying the non smoking .ule, bleN rhick cigar
snoke into l-.jNcnlhal s tace. T1]c gcatle Ldsen
lhal was a surogale Ior his chief suPporter,
Staunton. Harwitz had challenged Skunton but
had been un.ble to agrcc terns, sone blamingone
Darh.,ode the orher. Frum tcn rSsi roJdne 185,1
il,risir ras nropneror rna cditor or thc arnat
(:hers Review, an exccllcnl penodicil cxccpl
pcrhaps lor its anti-Staunton bias. Tnc English
player Auguslus Mongr€dien (1807.98). who
kne* HarNitz. wrote: He had lhe nislortune ot
being both contendous and wilt! thc former
qualty rnvulvr0S hrm inru .unsanr dnnuLe\ dnJ
rhe lau€r r(nd.nnA ihesr !Apurc\ borh btrler nd
personal'StaDnton,olcou6c,couldR€llholdnis
Soon HarNi, dcparted for Plris to become
prolessional at the ca.r DE LA RatitN.E follo*inB
Kiesciiizky's death. AI tnoug h physicall unaltractive,'alt
he.dand btaiflion a rin] body. hcwas a
\prr(hnq Lonve6ariotrJlrHnd FoPUldr dr lhe
Reecn.c At Mdnehe$er in l*57 he phred Ln h^
onay toumadenr, in vhich he \ras knockcd oul in
ihe Inst round bt Anderssen. Ac.ording ro
Ldwenthal HarNilz subsequcntly played three
games againsl Ande6scn. sinoing them all. In
l85sllarnvn2wasdefcatcdby oRPn(+2=l 5).
His condud during lhc match (he took morc than
one oI his uslal 'vacalionJ) and lhc ill grace Nnh
which hc laced deleatconbincd wirh lhe excessile
adulation a(orded to Morphy lost Har tuz the
synpathy olrhe public and cost hin his iob. Later
he told lriends that Morphy vas by far the Sreaten
Flaycrhc had met. Wben ror.rscH cane to Pans in
lS59Ilar ilzplayed him a lewgaoes (+l:l-2),
bul *as un.ble to recover bis conhdcncc. Receiv'
ing a nodest inheritance rfter his farhels death he
re&cd to Bolza.o in tte ALslrian Alps. emergine
in 1878 b nake a tour'tos€eoldtriends.ndscencs
olpast gloriesoncc morebelorehedicd'. (Sec Lost
IIARRI{ITZ ATTACK, 86, a outrENs cAMBrr
Declinedvariaiion favoured by rRwlrz and also
b, RurNsrdN after whom it is sooednes naoed
Harwnzplayed nsucceslully in matchcs. notably
in 1851 aaainst rij*.N1al and in 1858 apainn
MoRprrr, who considered tbe line so stiong thlt he
declined to neer rhe Queens G.mhil aganr.
preledng the DUrcH DrFrNc.. 120. Mo.e recently
KoRcrrNor cnployed rhe Harwitz Altack r bis
wo.ld championsbip mtches oi 1971i and 1981
HARIONG, JAN (1.102- ), Dutch composer,
specialist in orlhodox rwo and mRED Mov.Rsi
lnlcrnational Master lor Chess ComposilioDs
(1959), dnector or an insurance company. (see
HECHT 141
Nieneiier. Jr" Har,,( ( 19,16l contains 13c probleds].
fw. zi.leh tuee gedn. trd (1959) contains
100 problems by Hfutong a.d 100 by LosstNso.
EARONAR.RASHiD (..76!809), -Abbnsidcaliph
oi lslam ?86 809. Allegedly thc li6t of his dtnany
to play chess, he hvourcd good players and
granted tbed pe.sions.' Under bis caliphate lhc
Solden ,ec oI sH^rR^Nr begani court patronage
continned, and early in thc 9ih cenlury three
grandmasters energcd: RABh8, Abn n Na,n,and
Jabir alKnfi. In iime lhey *ere lollowcd by
al ADrj, acuzr, as-stri, and olhei greatplales.
lla nar Rashid s court al Baghdad h idcalizedin
The Arubian Niihx Ederd nenr, somciimes
. llcd'fhe Thoband ahd One Ni\ft,r This conpila_
tion of folk-tales r.s nadc sorne cenlunes ailei his
dcalh and lhe chess passaees n conrains halc no
IIAUP|r'URNIER, Geinan for Prcmier tourna
ncnt and like its English cquilalent usually thc
r..on,l level event aftcr the maner iournament.
Soon .lier hs founding in 187, the Deulscher
Schachbund began the practice oI organinng !
,'Ia"trtur,Er.t each oiits congresses. The winncr
or sonetimes thc sccond pnze *inne( Nas subsequenlty
entitlcd to play in . DSB 'nastcr
tourname.tand
ilherhen{onatleast arhnd oI his games
(the M.d,cr.til,el) he saiDcd tbe tnle ot masre,
IlavEL, MIROSLAV (1881 19581, Pseudonym
of the Czech conuoser Mirosl v Kostal,Internation.l
Judge of ChessComPosnions (1956). official
in thc Minislry oI Riilwars. I endealoured , h.
srites. 10 bring rhe Bohemian Problem- as to ils
form, and espc.ially economy oI meansi to ns
highesr pcrfcction. He succccd.d. (see BosE
L Mikan, M. Hav.r a.$! Atdnari 1898 1956
(1975) contains 1,701 comFsirioDs by Havel.
nEATECOTE,GODFREY(i870 1952).Englhh
cooposer spccializinS id oltnodox rflRB- and
MoR.-iorLRs,la\ryer. From tbe 1890s be and lhe
English coBposer Pcr.y Francis Blate (1873-
1936) qere the tso leading erPoncnts of lhe
so called English style (SeePRon' rM HrsIon.)For
a. cxample oI lhis stylc applied to a two molcr
Marble. Hune. .nd wnile. Cne$.Idlls (19ltr)
contains 300 problcms by Hearhcolc.
HF,A H VARTATION. 556 in lhe nNc,S GAMBIT
Declined. a kindol Ev^Ns cAMBr in,cnted bt ihe
German ptaycr Schulder, phycd by LiiwtNrul in
hjs fi6t match gane against H^kRvtrz, 1853, and
ramedafterC. B. HeathNhopublished anllysis in
the Btitish Ch.$ MaEaznE,19r-1.
rIECHT , HANS JOACHIM (1939 ), Inlema
tional Grandnasrer (19r3).In 1970 Hechtvon thc