Josep Tolosa i Carreras
- Birth Date:
- 20.11.1846
- Death date:
- 28.04.1916
- Length of life:
- 69
- Days since birth:
- 65306
- Years since birth:
- 178
- Days since death:
- 39943
- Years since death:
- 109
- Categories:
- Chess player
- Nationality:
- spaniard, hispanic
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Josep Tolosa i Carreras (Castilian: José Tolosa y Carreras, * 20 November 1846 in Girona; † 28 April 1916 in Barcelona) was a Spanish chess player, chess composer, journalist and non-fiction author. He came from Catalonia.
He was a pupil of Joan Carbó i Batlle, and a teacher of Josep Paluzie i Lucena and Valentí Marín i Llovet. He played chess at the Café del Recreo and the Cafè Anglès and wrote for the magazines Teoría y práctica del ajedrez, La Ilustración and Sportsmen's Club. Josep Paluzie i Lucena published a textbook for chess beginners in 1905, which he dedicated to José Tolosa y Carreras.
Works
Traité analytique du probleme d'échecs, Paris, 1892
Ruy López, Barcelona, 1895-1899 (journal)
Literature
Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900, Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1899, p. 233
Short biography of Josep Tolosa in Revista internacional de ajedrez, 04/1896 (Spanish).
Source: Wikipedia.de
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