Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, or Troitzky (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий) (March 14, 1866–August 1942) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies. (Seirawan 2003:91). He died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad, where his notes were destroyed. For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Chess composer is a person who creates chess problems. ... Chess is a recreational and competitive sport for two players. ... An endgame study, or just study, is a composed chess position—that is, one that has been made up rather than one from an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find a way for White, moving first... A female child during the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s, shown suffering the effects of severe hunger and malnutrition. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants Germany Spanish Blue Division Soviet Union Commanders Wilhem von Leeb Georg von Küchler Kliment Voroshilov Georgiy Zhukov Strength 725,000 930,000 Casualties Unknown 300,000 military, 16,470 civilians from bombings and an estimated 1 million civilians from starvation The Siege of Leningrad (Russian: блокада Ленинграда (transliteration: blokada Leningrada...

One of his most famous works involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitzky line. The two knights ending is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king, possibly with a pawn or two. ...

Books

• Troitzky, A. (1924), 500 Endspielstudien, Verlag Kagan Berlin
• Troitzky, A. A. (1968), 360 Brilliant and Instructive End Games, Dover Publications (reprint), ISBN 0-486-21959-3
• Troitzky, A. (1992), Collection of Studies, Tschaturanga Ed. Olms, ISBN 3283001146 with a supplement on the theory of the endgame of two knights against pawns

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See also

• Endgame
• Two knights endgame (contains Troitzky line)

In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board. ... The two knights ending is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king, possibly with a pawn or two. ...

References

•   Yasser Seirawan (2003). Winning Chess Endings. Everyman Chess. 1-85744-348-9. 

External links

• Chess Circle brings pictures and studies [1]