Alexey Troitsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexey Troitsky

Russian chess player

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1866

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1942

Profession: writer, chess composer, chess player

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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).