March 9th

Григорий Яковлевич Левенфиш (09-03-1889- 09-02-1961) Russian player and composer (Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish)

Grigori Levenfish [Wikipedia]

Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion. Here for more details about his chess career.
Grigory Levenfish composed endgame studies with Vasili Smyslov and he also wrote "Rook Endings" together with the former World Champion (Smyslov admitted that all of the hard work was carried out by Levenfish.)
We have selected a game-like study from that book:

Смыслов, Василий Васильевич & Левенфиш, Григорий Яковлевич
1957

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Black to move

3 + 3

Show Solution

1... Rf4 2. Ke7 Re4+ 3. Kf6 (or 3.Kd6) Rf4+ 4. Ke6! and we're back to the position after Black's first move, but with Black to play.
4...Kh6 5. Ke7 Re4+ 6. Kf8 Kh7 7. Rh2+ Kg6 8. Kg8 Rf4 9. Rg2+ and wins.