Konrad Kummer
- Birth Date:
- 14.09.1918
- Death date:
- 03.12.1986
- Length of life:
- 68
- Days since birth:
- 39059
- Years since birth:
- 106
- Days since death:
- 14142
- Years since death:
- 38
- Categories:
- Chess player
- Nationality:
- swiss
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Konrad Kummer (* 14.09.1918 - † 03.12.1986) Swiss chess composer
Konrad Kummer composed mostly direct chess problems in 2 or 3 moves or helpmates. 15 of his chess problems were selected in the second volume of "Caissas Schlossbewohner" (1985). He was the director of the twomovers section for period 1914-1928 for the selection of chess problems that was to be published in the retrospective FIDE Album 1914-1944.
In 1967 he wrote in collaboration with Hans Ott and Hans J. Schduel "Kunstwerke Auf 64 Feldern", a compilation of the best Swiss chess problems of the period 1922-1966. He also wrote an anthology of Hans Ott's chess problems "Hans Ott. Schachprobleme" published in 1986.
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