Ernest Pogosyants

Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants [Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov et al.: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary, Sovyetskaya encyclopediya, Moscow 1990, page 417, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 (in Russian)] (June 5 1935, Chuhuiv – August 16 1990) was an Ukrainian prolific composer of chess problems and endgame studies. He may have composed almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created by T. R. Dawson. [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_5.htm Open Chess Diary] by Tim Krabbe, item 85. Viewed 8 August 2007.]

Harold van der Heijden included 1,727 studies by Pogosyants in his endgame study database. This represented the largest number of studies by any one composer. Henri Rinck, Alexey Troitsky, and Ladislav Prokes were the only other composers with more than 1,000 endgame studies. [ [http://www.gadycosteff.com/eg/eg130.pdf#page=38 My Computerised Collection] by Harold van der Heijden. "EG" 130, October 1998, page 413.]

References

ee also

* Endgame tablebase

External links

* [http://www.gadycosteff.com/eg/eg56.pdf#page=5 "Castling in Studies" by Ernest Pogosyants.] "EG" 56, June 1978, page 5.