The Retrograde Analysis Corner

Contributions to the Retro Corner

This Page is a collective effort of the Retro community!

It already includes:

Background material for beginners,
A large set of problems (partly with solutions),
A gallery of prize-winning problems,
An annotated list of books and articles

Of course we can do an even better, more complete, job. I am sure we will.

Any help, advice, support, suggestion and comment from retro enthusiasts, both experts and novices, is welcome. Obviously, if enough people are willing to help, we may eventually offer a wealth of relevant, up-to-date information.

Any contribution is welcome. Write to

Webmaster <otto(at)janko.at>
Otto Janko <otto(at)janko.at>
Joost de Heer <ildjarn666(at)hotmail.com>
Retro Mailing List <retros(at)janko.at>

In the e-mail addresses above, please replace the "(at)"-string by a "@"-sign!

Some hints for contributions

Please provide plain text or plain HTML files. Use English notations for pieces. You do not need to provide diagrams in text or graphics, English FEN is sufficient (please use "N" for the kNight, not "S").

Contribution of Solutions

If you want to contribute a solution, please send mail to Joost or Otto. If you want to discuss a solution, please send mail to the Retro Mailing List.

Technical questions

If you have technical questions regarding the Website or if you want to report technical issues, please send mail to the Webmaster.

List of contributors so far

I (Philippe Schnoebelen) started this list in April 1996 so that I am bound to have forgotten a few names. I only hope that there are not too many of them. In alphabetical order:

Eric Angelini, Elmar Bartel, Matthias Bauer, Alain Biénabe, Zoltàn Blàzsik, Andrew Buchanan, Michel Caillaud, Ivan Denkovski, Gianni Donati, Nicolas Dupont, Noam Elkies, Christoph Fieberg, Goran Forslund, Simon Foulkes, Erich Friedman, Norbert Geissler, Ian Gent, Hans Gruber, Satoshi Hashimoto, Joost de Heer, Peter van den Heuvel, Stephen E. Hirschberg, Colin Hogben, Jan Hondebrink, Stefan Höning, Theodore Hwa, Andrej Jakobcic, Otto Janko, Ivan Jarolin, Henrik Juel, Klaus Krtschil, Hannu Lehto (Mr. Mip), Torsten Lin?#376;, Roger Lipsett, Valerij Liskovets, Juraj Lörinc, Tim Mann, Ryan McCracken, Jonathan Mestel, Stefanos Pantazis, Hans Peter Reich, Mario Richter, Ulrich Ring, Richard Sabey, Frantisek Sabol, Juha Saukkola, Bernd Schwarzkopf, Martin Skjöldebrand, Richard Stanley, John A. Tamplin, Michael Thayer, Mark J. Tilford, Mario Velucchi, Koen Versmissen, Tom Volet, Pascal Wassong, Göran Wicklund, Kjell Widlert, Gerd Wilts, Renny Bosch.