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Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий; 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
Troitzky Chess, invented by Paul Byway
a chess variant where checkmate by two knights can be forced. 1866 births 1942 deaths Deaths by starvation Chess composers Chess theoreticians Russian chess writers Victims of the Siege of Leningrad {{Russia-chess-bio-stub
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий; 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 composer
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s of chess endgame studies.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." He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies . Troitsky died of starvation
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during World War II at the siege of Leningrad
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, where his notes were destroyed.
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" .
Compositions
Troitsky was a prolific composer of endgame studies.Irving Chernev
Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1905. Chernev was a nati ...
included nine of them in his book ''200 Brilliant Endgames''. 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 .
Books
* Troitzky, A. (1924), ''500 Endspielstudien'', Verlag Kagan Berlin * * Troitzky, A. (1992), ''Collection of Studies'', Tschaturanga Ed. Olms, . Reprinted in 2006 by Ishi Press, . The 360 studies above plus a supplement on the theory of the endgame of two knights against pawns.See also
*Two knights endgame
The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king. In contrast to a king and two bishops (on opposite-colored squares), or a bishop and a knight, a king and two knights cannot checkmate against a lone king (howe ...
(contains Troitsky line)
Notes
References
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Troitzky Chess, invented by Paul Byway
a chess variant where checkmate by two knights can be forced. 1866 births 1942 deaths Deaths by starvation Chess composers Chess theoreticians Russian chess writers Victims of the Siege of Leningrad {{Russia-chess-bio-stub