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Alexey Troitsky
Summary
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий; March 14, 1866 – August 1942; also Alexei, Troitzky, Troitzki) was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies . Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad. During the war, many of his notes got destroyed or lost so some of the latest chess problems he composed were never published.
One of his most famous works involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitsky line. John Nunn analyzed this endgame with an endgame tablebase and stated that "the analysis of Troitsky ... is astonishingly accurate" .
Troitsky was a prolific composer of endgame studies. Irving Chernev included nine of them in his book 200 Brilliant Endgames. The diagram shows one of them.
The main line goes:
- Nb6! Qe8
- Nd7! Kc4
- Qxc7+ Kb4
- Qc5+ Kb3
- Qc3+ Ka4
- Qd4+ Ka3
- Nc5 Qb8
- Qa1+ Kb4
- Na6+ and White wins . Troitzky, A. (1924), 500 Endspielstudien, Verlag Kagan Berlin Troitzky, A. (1992), Collection of Studies, Tschaturanga Ed. Olms, . Reprinted in 2006 by Ishi Press, . The 360 studies above plus a supplement on the theory of the endgame of two knights against pawns.
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