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Kasparyan is best known for his compositions. He started with chess problems , mainly three-movers , but soon discovered that his best field was in endgame studies . He wrote several books and collections and composed about 600 studies, many on the theme of domination, winning 57 first prizes. [ 2 ]
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was born in Stawiski, Congress Poland, to a Jewish family. He was the youngest of 12 children, [a] but only one sister survived to adulthood. [1] [4] [5] Rubinstein learned to play chess at the relatively late age of 14, and his family had planned for him to become a rabbi. [6]
Much literature about chess endgames has been produced in the form of books and magazines. A bibliography of endgame books is below. Many chess masters have contributed to the theory of endgames over the centuries, including Ruy López de Segura, François-André Philidor, Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, Johann Berger, Alexey Troitsky, Yuri Averbakh, and Reuben Fine.
He has written a number of books on chess, including several on the endgame, among them Analysing the Endgame (1981), Endgame Preparation (1981) and Batsford Chess Endings (co-author, 1993). Among his other books are Best Games 1970–1980 (1982), an analysis of nearly fifty of the best games by top players from that decade, and Jon Speelman's ...
It is considered the first systematic book in English on the endgame phase of the game of chess. It is the best-known endgame book in English and is a classic piece of chess endgame literature. The book is dedicated to World Champion Emanuel Lasker, who died in 1941 (the year the book was published). It was revised in 2003 by Pal Benko.
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In later life, Benko was a tutor to many up-and-coming players from his native Hungary; his students included the Polgár sisters (Susan, Sofia, Judit Polgár) and Peter Leko. [1] Benko had a column on chess endgames in Chess Life magazine, which is published by the United States Chess Federation , for decades: "In the Arena" (1972–1981 ...
French player and composer of over 300 studies. He won the France championship in 1926–27–29, then turned fully to endgame composition. Many of his studies are considered classics of endgame theory. Author of many books and a three-volume anthology of endgame studies (1952). Luigi Centurini (1820–1900). Italian player and composer born in ...