Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants (June 5, 1935, Chuhuiv

Chuhuiv

Chuhuiv is a city in the Kharkiv Oblast of eastern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Chuhuivskyi Raion , the city itself is directly subordinate to the oblast, and is located at around ....

 – August 16, 1990) was a Soviet composer of chess problems and endgame studies. He composed about 6,000 problems and studies, almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created by T. R. Dawson. In 1988 he was awarded the title Grandmaster for Chess Compositions.

Harold van der Heijden

Harold van der Heijden

Harold van der Heijden is a Dutch composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Veghel, The Netherlands, on December 18, 1960. By profession, after finishing his PhD in 2009, he is head of the R&D department of a veterinary institute....

 included 1,727 studies by Pogosyants in his endgame study database. This represented the largest number of studies by any one composer. Henri Rinck

Henri Rinck

Henri Rinck was a French chess study composer, considered one of the most important early figures in the field.-Biography:...

, Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, or Troitzky 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...

, and Ladislav Prokes

Ladislav Prokeš

Ladislav Prokeš was one of the most prolific composers of endgame studies in chess. He was born and died in Prague....

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

External links

• Castling in Studies by Ernest Pogosyants. EG
  EG (magazine)
  EG is a magazine that publishes endgame studies and discusses various aspects of the endgame in chess. The letters "EG" stand for "End Game."...
  
  56, June 1978, page 5.

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