Mark Liburkin (Vitebsk, 31 August 1910 - Moscow, 5 March 1953) was a Soviet

chess composer A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrograde ...

. He composed more than 110

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 ...

, usually with geometrical motifs. In 1945, he was appointed editor of Soviet chess magazine ''

Shakhmaty v SSSR ''Shakhmaty v SSSR'' (russian: Шахматы в СССР; ''Chess in the USSR'') was a Soviet chess magazine published between 1931 and 1991. It was edited by Viacheslav Ragozin for several years. Yuri Averbakh was also an editor. From 1921 or ...

''. In 2010, endgame association AVRES held centenary memorial tournaments in honor of Liburkin and Shaya Kozlowski.{{Cite web , date=2010-12-23 , title=Liburkin, Kozlowski memorial composing tourneys , url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/liburkin-kozlowski-memorial-composing-tourneys , access-date=2022-09-16 , website=Chess News , language=en

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Soviet chess writers Chess composers