Ernest Pogosyants
Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants (June 5, 1935, Chuhuiv – August 16, 1990) was a Soviet-Armenian composer of chess problems and endgame studies. He composed about 6,000 problems and studies, almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created by T. R. Dawson. In 1988 he was awarded the title Grandmaster for Chess Compositions. Harold van der Heijden included 1,727 studies by Pogosyants in his endgame study database. This represented the largest number of studies by any one composer. Henri Rinck, Alexey Troitsky, and Ladislav Prokes Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava. Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada. Spellings and variations In Bulgarian a ... were the only other composers with more than 1,000 endgame studies. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chuhuiv
Chuhuiv ( uk, Чугуїв) or Chuguev (russian: Чугуев) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Chuhuiv Raion (district). It hosts the administration of Chuhuiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Chuhuiv's food industry focuses on producing mayonnaise along with other staple supporting condiments. History The City's founding date is disputed with historical assertions ranging from 1540 to 1627. Some academics believe that the city was built upon the orders Russia's first Tsar Ivan the Terrible who reigned from 1547 to 1584. A military fort was built adjacent to the city in 1638 by Ukrainian Cossacks of Yakiv Ostryanyn (see Ostryanyn uprising) on the order of Muscovite Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. A military presence of some form near Chuhuiv has remained ever since. The Chuguev uprising of 1819 was a revolt of military settlers. During the government of the Soviet Union, the base became an important military training cen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chess Composers
Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as (Chinese chess) and (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to generically as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. White moves first, followed by Black; then moves alternate. The object of the game is to checkmate (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw. The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soviet Chess Players
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Russian Chess Players
This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority of these people are chess grandmasters. A * Vladimir Afromeev (born 1954) *Evgeny Agrest (born 1966) *Georgy Agzamov (1954–1986) * Anna Akhsharumova (born 1957) *Vladimir Akopian (born 1971) *Simon Alapin (1856–1923) *Vladimir Alatortsev (1909–1987) *Lev Alburt (born 1945) *Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), world champion *Alexei Alekhine (1888–1939) * Evgeny Alekseev (born 1985) *Nana Alexandria (born 1949) * Farrukh Amonatov (born 1978) *Dmitry Andreikin (born 1990) *Vladimir Antoshin (1929–1994) *Fricis Apsenieks (1894–1941) *Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (born 1968) *Valentin Arbakov (1952–2004) *Lev Aronin (1920–1983) *Vladislav Artemiev (born 1998) *Andreas Ascharin (1843–1896) *Konstantin Aseev (1960–2004) *Ekaterina Atalik (born 1982) *Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022) *Zurab Azmaiparashvili (born 1960) B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Armenian Chess Players
This is a complete list of Armenian chess title-holders as of January 2010. Grandmasters International Masters Women Grandmasters Women International Masters See also * Chess in Armenia *List of Armenians * List of chess players External linksElo rating list of top 100 Armenian chess players Armenian Chess Players BBC iPlayer - Assignment Armenia the cleverest nation on earth {{ArmeniaGMs [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grandmasters For Chess Composition
Grandmaster or Grand Master may refer to: People * Grandmaster Flash, Joseph Saddler (born 1958), hip-hop musician and disc jockey * Grandmaster Melle Mel, Melvin Glover (born 1961), hip-hop musician * "Grandmaster Sexay", nickname for professional wrestler Brian Christopher Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Grand Master (Jedi), also known as "Jedi Grand Master", or formally "Grand Master of the Jedi Order"—Order of the Jedi in ''Star Wars'' * Grandmaster (DC Comics), a DC Comics character * Grandmaster (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character * "Grandmaster B", a nickname used by Bud Bundy from the TV sitcom '' Married... with Children'' *Grand Master of Witches, a fictional character from the anime ''Tweeny Witches'' Films *Grandmaster (1972 film), a Soviet drama film * ''Grandmaster'' (2012 film), an Indian film * ''The Grandmaster'' (film), a 2013 Hong Kong film Music * ''Grandmasters'' (album), an album by DJ Muggs and GZA Positions * Grand M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1990 Deaths
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Vic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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EG (magazine)
''EG'' is a magazine which publishes endgame studies and discusses various aspects of the endgame 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 dist .... 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, and John Roycroft. 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 Schaakeindspe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chess Problems
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two moves against any possible defence. A chess problem fundamentally differs from over-the-board play in that the latter involves a struggle between black and white, whereas the former involves a competition between the composer and the solver. Most positions which occur in a chess problem are 'unrealistic' in the sense that they are very unlikely to occur in over-the-board play. There is a good deal of specialized jargon used in connection with chess problems; see glossary of chess problems for a list. Definition The term "chess problem" is not sharply defined: there is no clear demarcation between chess compositions on the one hand and puzzles or tactical exercises on the other. In practice, however, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ladislav Prokes
Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava. Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada. Spellings and variations In Bulgarian and Russian this name is spelled in . ''László'' is a Hungarian variation of this name. Athletes *Ladislav Beneš, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player *Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player *Ladislav Čepčianský, Czechoslovak sprint canoer *Ladislav Dluhoš, Czechoslovak ski jumper *Ladislav Fouček *Ladislav Hecht (1909–2004), Czechoslovak/American tennis player *Ladislav Hrubý, cross-country skier *Ladislav Jurkemik, Czechoslovak/Slovak footballer and manager *Ladislav Kačáni, Czechoslovak footballer and coach *Ladislav Kohn, Czech ice hockey player *Ladislav Kuna, Czechoslovak footballer *Ladislav Lubina, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach *Ladislav Maier, Czech footballer *Ladislav Nagy, Slovak ice hockey playe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexey Troitsky
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 composers 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 during World War II at the siege of Leningrad, 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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |