<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Dear Thomas,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thank you for your mail and blog-post. Henrik was an extremely friendly man, always smiling, helpful and unassuming about his great skills. His lectures at Dansk Skakproblem Klub about retros were legendary. He would always bring a number of positions to, but we typically only got around to solving (ok, failing to solve) one or two of them...</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">He also won the Danish solving championship on numerous occasions leaving the rest of us to fight for second place.<br><br>Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default">Steffen</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den fre. 10. jan. 2025 kl. 09.14 skrev Andrey Frolkin <<a href="mailto:afretro@gmail.com">afretro@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Very sad indeed. So many
friends and colleagues lost in the past few years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Henrik was brilliant at
solving, testing and cooking retros. One of the cooks he once found resulted in
a joint retro with him as the third co-author.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Andrey</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пт, 10 янв. 2025 г. в 09:47, Thomas Brand via Retros <<a href="mailto:retros@janko.at" target="_blank">retros@janko.at</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Sad news from Denmark: From Bjørn Enemark I learned that Henrik Juel passed away at January 3rd, just four weeks before his 80th anniversary (February 02, 1945 — January 03, 2025).<div><br></div><div>He was an excellent composer with a not so high output, but always interesting retros of different types, and he was the most active reader and commenter of my blog.</div><div><br></div><div>Here you may find a brief obituary (<a href="https://www.thbrand.de/2025/01/10/henrik-juel-2-2-1945-3-1-2025/" target="_blank">https://www.thbrand.de/2025/01/10/henrik-juel-2-2-1945-3-1-2025/</a>); the next „Retro der Woche“ will discuss a fine Henrik-Juel-retro in detail. </div><div><br></div><div>I will never forget him, his contribution to the retros community and to my blog.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Thomas</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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