''EG'' is a magazine which publishes
endgame studies
In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find the essentially uniqu ...
and discusses various aspects of the
endgame
Endgame, Endgames, End Game, End Games, or similar variations may refer to:
Film
* ''The End of the Game'' (1919 film)
* ''The End of the Game'' (1975 film), short documentary U.S. film
* ''Endgame'' (1983 film), 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic f ...
in
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
. The letters "EG" signify "End Game" and also the Latin phrase ''
exempli gratia''.
[Roycroft (1972), p. 111] While many
chess magazines include sections for endgame studies, ''EG'' is unique for its exclusive focus.
History
The magazine was founded by The Chess Endgame Study Circle, a British group of
chess endgame study composers and enthusiasts, that formed on 16 March 1965. The eleven members included
Robert ″Bob″ Wade,
Hugh Blandford
Hugh Francis Blandford (24 January 1917 – 20 September 1981) was a chess endgame composer born in Southampton, England.
Biography
He spent several years of his childhood in Jamaica with his father, the Reverend Albert Francis (Frank) Blandford ...
, and
John Roycroft
Arthur John Roycroft (born 25 July 1929, London) is an English chess endgame study composer and author.
Chess career
In 1959 he was awarded the title International Judge of Chess Compositions. In 1965 he founded '' EG'', the first long-running j ...
.
Roycroft was the magazine's publisher for the first 102 issues, from July 1965 until 1991. Since then the Dutch company Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie (ARVES) has been the publisher, but Roycroft stayed as editor-in-chief thereafter. The current editor-in-chief is
Harold van der Heijden
Harold van der Heijden is a Dutch composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Veghel, The Netherlands, on 18 December 1960. By profession, after finishing his PhD in 2009, he is head of the Research and Development laboratory of a veterinary ...
. The magazine is focused on endgame studies but in some cases includes practical endgames in articles. Another main focus is the collection and re-publication of awards for endgame study tourneys. In October 2019, the German endgame expert
Karsten Müller
Karsten Müller (born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German chess Grandmaster and author. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1998 and a PhD in mathematics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg. He had placed third in the 1996 Ger ...
joined the editorial staff with his own column aimed at practical players.
Notes
References
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Further reading
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External links
*ARVES
PDF archive of ''EG'', volumes 1-190*Gady Costeff
(with permission from ARVES)
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German Wikipedia article on ARVES
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Chess in the United Kingdom
Chess in the Netherlands
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Magazines established in 1965
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