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Alexey Troitsky

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Russian chess player (1866-1942)

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Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely 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. Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad.

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Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely 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. Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad. During the war, many of his notes got destroyed or lost so some of the latest chess problems he composed were never published.

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Lived 1866 to 1942 · aged 76
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