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Meisterwerke der Schachkomposition.
1998, 50 Seiten, geheftet, figurine Notation
Alexey Troitzky (1866 -1942) founded a new era in chess history - the era of artistic chess study. Its main content was investigation in the field of beauty arising from combinational and positional fight between the conflicting sides.
He composed around 1000 works altogether, many of them have become a part of the golden treasury of chess forever.
As no one, Troitsky was famous for discovering many unique ideas, implemented by him in a bright and clever way that attracted everybody. To mention just few, these are catching and immuzing of a piece, domination, checkmate with a last minor piece that remains, systematical movement, underpromotion, perpetual check and perpetual pursuit, as well as some ideas that had occurred before only in chess problems like synthesis and combination.
In the beginning of the 20th century, he was first to elaborate the fundamentals of the theory of artistic study. The basic principles were the uniformity of structure (introduction, strategical content and the final stage) and natural initial position, richness of tactical fight, originality of ideas.
These principals are still actual. The admirers of Troitsky's work call him, with a good reason, a Father of modern chess study.
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