How to Pronounce Alexey Troitsky
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Mar 14, 1866 Saint Petersburg Died on 14 Aug 1942 (aged 76)
Russian chess player
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About Alexey Troitsky
- Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, Troitzky, or Troitzki (Russian: ??????´? ??????´???? ???´?????) (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).
- 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" (Nunn 1995:265).
