- Genrikh Gasparyan
Genrikh Gasparyan ( _hy. Գենրիխ Գասպարյան;
February 27 ,1910 inTbilisi —December 27 ,1995 inYerevan ) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers ofchess endgame studies . OutsideArmenia , he is better known by the Russian version of his name Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparyan or Kasparian ( _ru. Генрих Моисеевич Каспарян).Gasparyan became a
national master in 1936 and became aninternational master in 1950 and was anInternational Judge of Chess Compositions (awarded in 1956) and an International Grandmaster of Chess Composition (awarded in 1972) harvcol|Harkola|2007.Gasparyan was also an active chess player, winning the Armenian championship ten times (including two ties with future World Champion
Tigran Petrosian ). He reached theUSSR Championship finals four times, but never finished higher than tenth place.Gasparyan is best known for his compositions. He stated with
chess problems but soon discovered that his best field was inendgame studies . He wrote several books and collections and composed about 300 studies, which won 40 first prizes. He won the USSR Composing Championship several times harvcol|Sunnucks|1970.ample study
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White to play and winIrving Chernev included five of Kasparyan's compositions in his book "200 Brilliant Endgames". This study uses a "model mate " in the middle of the board harvcol|Chernev|1989|p=103.*1. Bf5 Kd4
*2. Ne6+ Ke5
*3. Bh3 Bc2
*4. d4+ Kd5
*5. Kb5 Bh7
*6. Kb4 Bg8
*7. Kc3 Bxe6
*8. Bg2#Books
* "Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies" by Genrikh Gasparyan. ISBN 0-923891-87-0
* "The Complete Studies of Genrikh Kasparyan" byA. J. Roycroft . [http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?cID=5&PID=6]References
* Citation
last=Chernev|first=Irving|authorlink=Irving Chernev
title=200 Brilliant Endgames
year=1989
publisher=Dover
ID=ISBN 0-486-43211-4* citation
last=Sunnucks | first=Anne |authorlink=Anne Sunnucks
year=1970
title=The Encyclopaedia of Chess
publisher=St. Martins Press
ISBN=978-0709146971* Citation
last=Harkola|first=Hannu
year=2007
title=Handbook of Chess Composition v4.1 http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/hcc.htm
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