Ernest Pogosyants

Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants[1] (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,[2] almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created by T. R. Dawson.[3] In 1988 he was awarded the title Grandmaster for Chess Compositions.[2]

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 were the only other composers with more than 1,000 endgame studies.[4]

References

1. Karpov, Anatoly, ed. (1990). Шахматы: Энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Moscow: Советская энциклопедия. p. 417. ISBN 978-5-85270-005-6. LCCN 97214322. OCLC 23533106. Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 312, ISBN 978-0-19-280049-7
3. Open Chess Diary by Tim Krabbe, item 85. Viewed 8 August 2007.
4. My Computerised Collection by Harold van der Heijden. EG 130, October 1998, page 413.

External links

• Castling in Studies by Ernest Pogosyants. EG 56, June 1978, page 5.
• Tim Krabbé, Tim (25 December 1999), "Pogosyants' sleepless nights", Open Chess Diary

Further reading

• Pogosyants, Ernest (1999), Roycroft, John (ed.), A (First) Century of Studies, Russel Enterprises, ISBN 978-1-888690-05-7