Alexander Sergeevich Kakovin

Alexander Sergejewitsch Kakowin ( Russian Александр Сергеевич Каковин ; born August 15, 1910 in Kharkiv ) is a Russian chess composer . He was a patent expert.

Chess composition

Since 1936, Kakowin published more than 400 compositions, more than half of them studies. He won 120 awards, including 40 prizes and 13 of them first. Kakowin was in the finals of four USSR individual championships. In 1962 he took 6th place in the study department. In 1968 he became the master of the sport of the USSR in chess composition. Published compositions by him after 1985 are not known.

From 1973 he worked frequently with A. Motor.

Alexander Kakovin Shachmaty w SSR
, 1940

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White moves and wins

1. Rb8 – d8 Bd2 – a5
2. Rd8 – d5 b5xa4!
3. Rd5xa5 b7 – b5
4. Kb2 – c3 Ka7 – b7 and now not Kc3 – b4? Kb7 – b6 with pressure and loss, but
5. Kc3 – d4! Kb7 – b6
6. Kd4 – d5 Kb6xa5
7. Kd5 – c5 b5 – b4
8. a3xb4 mate

Web links

Compositions by Alexander Kakowin on the PDB server

Individual evidence

↑ Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow u. a .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary . Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 145 (Russian)
↑ hhdbiii , 2005

personal data
SURNAME	Kakowin, Alexander Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Каковин, Александр Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kharkiv
DATE OF DEATH	20th century or 21st century

[1] Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow u. a .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary . Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 145 (Russian)

[2] , 2005