Abram Gurvich

Abram Solomonovich Gurvich (russian Абра́м Соломо́нович Гу́рвич) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Baku on February 11, 1897, worked as literature and theatrical reviewer. His first chess study was published in 1926. Gurvich composed more than 100 endgame studies. Died in Moscow on November 18, 1962. At the end of 1940th he was one of the main targets during Stalin's defamation campaign as «rootless cosmopolitan».

A study by Abram Gurvich

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Abram Gurvich
"Schachmaty" 1928
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8 | |bd| | | | | | |= 7 | | | | | | | | |= 6 | |nl| | | | |pl|kd|= 5 | | | | | | | | |= 4 | | | | | | | | |= 3 |bl| | | | | | |kl|= 2 | | | | | | | | |= 1 | | | | | | | | |= a b c d e f g h

White to move and win (4 + 2)

Solution:

1. Nb6-d7 Bc7!
: (1…Bf4 2. Ng4 and 3. Nf5; if 1… Ba7, then 2. Ne5! Kg7 3. Bb2!)
2. Nd7-f8 Bc7-e5!
3. Kh3-g4! Be5-b2!
4. Ba3-c5! Bb2-d4!
5. g6-g7!! K:g7 (5… B:g7 6. Be3 mate)
6. Nf8-e6+

Works

* "Этюды" ("Chess Studies", Russian), Moscow, 1961.

External links

* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/egorov.htm From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism]