Ernest Pogosyants

Ernest Lewonowitsch Pogosjanz (Russian Эрнест Левонович Погосянц, scientific transliteration Ernest Levonovič Pogosjanc; born June 5, 1935 in Tschuhujiw, Kharkiv Oblast, † 16 August 1990) was a Soviet chess composer.

Chess composition

Pogosjanz was one of the most prolific composers. He has published since 1958 on 6100 and 1100 studies chess problems. Many of them were published in national newspapers and magazines and so remained largely unknown to the world of chess. Sometimes his compositions in the regional newspapers in notation appeared without chart, for example, as solvents competition. In Schachmaty v SSSR alone appeared under the heading School of monthly analysis 6 of his studies as an analysis and endgame training.

Ernest Pogosjanz composed numerous miniatures and five piece. He aspired impressive solutions at most economical use of resources and kept as far as possible to the principles of classical composition. In 1988 he became Grand Master for chess composition.

Solution:

1 Kf6! Kh6 2 d6 Se8 3 Lxe8 e3 4 d7! ( 4 Bb5? E2 5.Lxe2 patt ) e2 5 D8S! E1S! ( 5 ... E1D 6.Sf7 Kh5 7.Se5 Kh4 8.Nf3 ) Nf3 Nc6 6 7 Se7 Sh4 8 Ng8 matt Interesting motivation of mutual Springer underpromotion.

Private

Ernest Pogosjanz taught mathematics.

As a somewhat naive young man, he was imprisoned for criticizing KGB chief Alexander Shelepin. As a result, drug treatments he had to endure in a psychiatric hospital, he suffered all his life from sleep. These experiences did not prevent him, his Communist ideals to remain faithful.