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John Roycroft, 1999 |
John Roycroft is an endgame study composer and International Judge. He founded the studies magazine End Game (EG) in 1965. He has composed little, but has written more: for instance "Test Tube Chess" (1972) revised as "The Chess Endgame Study" (1981), one of the best book about endgame studies.
He is the co-inventor of the Guy-Blanchford-Roycroft code, an efficient way of indexing endgame studies.
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Heinz Gfeller (25-07-1933 - 12-11-2018) Swiss composer
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Heinz Gfeller, right, next to Dieter Werner and Markus Wettstein [source: 2014 General Meeting of the Swiss Chess Composition Association] |
Heinz Gfeller often proposes Rätsel and also writes articles for the Swiss magazine "idee & form".
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Bernd Schwarzkopf (25-07-1946) German composer
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Axel Steinbrink, Bernd Schwarzkopf, Franz Pachl and Hans Gruber |
Bernd Schwarzkopf composes in all genres, including fairy, retro and task problems.
Schwarzkopf, Bernd
feenschach, 1978
dedicated to Andernach 1978 participants
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feenschach, 1978
dedicated to Andernach 1978 participants
ser-h#9 | PWC b) bKa4->a6 | 1 + 2 |
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Александр Юрьевич Семененко & Валерий Юрьевич Семененко (25-07-1959) Ukrainian composers, Grandmasters (Aleksandr Yurevich Semenenko and Valery Yurevich Semenenko)
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Valery and Aleksandr Semenenko |
The Semenenko twin brothers very often compose together. They have chosen the helpmate field to express their (similar) talents. They are International Judges and Aleksandr is a Grandmaster while Valery became Grandmaster in 2022.
The two differences: Aleksandr wears a beard, while Valery has earned the title of solving FIDE Master.
Семененко, Александр Юрьевич & Семененко, Валерий Юрьевич
Mat Plus, 2009 (33/1263)
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Mat Plus, 2009 (33/1263)
h#2 | b) wKc7->g7 | 8 + 10 |
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Семененко, Александр Юрьевич & Семененко, Валерий Юрьевич
J. Lois-60 JT, 2006
2nd Prize
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J. Lois-60 JT, 2006
2nd Prize
h#3 | 2 solutions | 4 + 14 |
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