Alexey Troitsky
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (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.
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Alexey Troitsky
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- Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky
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- Died
- Alexey Troitsky died on 14 August 1942. · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- chess composer · writer · chess player
- Honours
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Languages
- Russian
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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".
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Alexey Troitsky was a “Schachkomponist” and “Schachtheoretiker”, born on 14 March 1866 in Saint Petersburg and died on 14 August 1942 in Leningrad. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky • Born — property • Birthplace — property • Died — property • Place of death — property • Occupation — property • Language — property • Education — property • Genre — chess theory • Subject — endgame
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Alexey Troitsky was born at Saint Petersburg.
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Alexey Troitsky died at Saint Petersburg.
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Troitsky was a prolific composer of endgame studies. Irving Chernev included nine of them in. The 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.
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- 1.In the introduction to Collection of Chess Studies, Sam Sloan writes "... Trotzky is considered to have been the greatest composer of chess endgame studies ever."
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