Alexey Troitsky
Russian chess player (1866-1942) · Russia · On the map · Chess Players · Died at 76
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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During the war, many of his notes got destroyed or lost so some of the latest chess problems he composed were never published.
Country
Russia
Category
Chess Players
Type
Chess Player
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1866 to 1942 · aged 76
