Charles Henry Wheeler (22.07.1846 - 15.10.1927)

American chess composer

Charles Henry Wheeler wrote the compilation "Two Move Chess Problems" in 1887. He composed direct mates, selfmates and other types of problems.

As mentioned by Edward Winter in his Chess Notes who quotes W.A. Shinkman, C.H.Wheeler was ‘exceedingly modest of his own powers’. Wheeler was the actual inventor of the shortest game without capture that ends with stalemate: 1 a4 c5 2 d4 d6 3 Qd2 e5 4 Qf4 e4 5 h3 Be7 6 Qh2 Bh4 7 Ra3 Be6 8 Rg3 Bb3 9 Nd2 Qa5 10 d5 e3 11 c4 f5 12 f3 f4, as published in "Sunny South" in 1887. The game was later appropriated by Sam Loyd, who added parodic comments and thus scooped all the credit for this game.