Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, or Troitzky ( _ru. Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий) (March 14, 1866–August 1942) is 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. harvcol|Seirawan|2003|p=91. He died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad, where his notes were destroyed.

One of his most famous works involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitzky line. John Nunn analyzed this endgame with an endgame tablebase and stated that "the analysis of Troitsky ... is astonishingly accurate" harvcol|Nunn|1995|p=265.

Compositions

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Troitzky, 1909.
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White to move and win.Troitzky was a prolific composer of endgame studies. Irving Chernev included nine of them in his book "200 Brilliant Endgames". This diagram shows one of them. The main line goes:
*1. Nb6! Qe8
*2. Nd7! Kc4
*3. Qxc7+ Kb4
*4. Qc5+ Kb3
*5. Qc3+ Ka4
*6. Qd4+ Ka3
*7. Nc5 Qb8
*8. Qa1+ Kb4
*"'9. Na6+ and White wins harvcol|Chernov|1989|pp=207-8.

Books

* Troitzky, A. (1924), "500 Endspielstudien", Verlag Kagan Berlin
*Harvard reference
Surname1=Troitzky|Given1=A. A.
Year=1968
Title=360 Brilliant and Instructive End Games
Publisher=Dover Publications (reprint)
ID=ISBN 0-486-21959-3
* Troitzky, A. (1992), "Collection of Studies", Tschaturanga Ed. Olms, ISBN 3283001146. Reprinted in 2006 by Ishi Press, ISBN 0-923891-10-2. The 360 studies above plus a supplement on the theory of the endgame of two knights against pawns.

ee also

*Two knights endgame (contains Troitzky line)

References

* Citation
surname1=Chernev|given1=Irving|authorlink1=Irving Chernev
title=200 Brilliant Endgames
year=1989
publisher=Dover
ID=ISBN 0-486-43211-4

*Citation
surname1=Nunn|given1=John|authorlink1=John Nunn
year=1995
title=Secrets of Minor-Piece Endings
publisher=Batsford
ID=ISBN 0-8050-4228-8

*Citation
surname1=Seirawan|given1=Yasser|authorlink1=Yasser Seirawan
title=Winning Chess Endings
year=2003
publisher=Everyman Chess
ID=ISBN 1-85744-348-9

External links

* [http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Troitzky.base.htm Chess Circle brings pictures and studies]
* [http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MPtroitzkychess Troitzky Chess, invented by Paul Byway] , a chess variant where checkmate by two knights can be forced.


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