Anatoly Georgievich Kuznetsov

Anatoly Georgijewitsch Kuznetsov ( Russian Анатолий Георгиевич Кузнецов ; * July 23, 1932 in Perm , † July 23, 2000 in Moscow ) was a Russian chess composer . He had no family relationship with the chess composer Alexander Kuznetsov, who also lived in Moscow .

Chess composition

AG Kuznetsov and Karen Sumbatjan
EG, 2001

	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

Kuznetsov has published more than 250 compositions since 1948, mainly studies, but also retro-analytical tasks. At the beginning of his career he often composed with Boris Sakharov. He took Nikolai Kralin and Karen Sumbatjan under his wing.

In the study tournament of the Soviet Union against the rest of the world in 1989 he was team leader of the Soviet team. At the end of his life, he worked with Sumbatjan on a study for over five years. Harold van der Heijden's database contains almost 150 of his studies.

Solution:
1. Ke7 – f7 + Kh5 – h6 2. Rf2xf3 h2 – h1D 3. Rf3 – f6 + Kh6 – h5 4. Rf6 – f4 b7 – b6 5. d2 – d4 b6 – b5 6. d4 – d5 Qh1 – h2 7. Rf4 – f5 + Kh5 – g4 8. Rf5 – g5 + Kg4 – f4 9. Bd8 – c7 + Kf4xg5 10. Bc7xh2 b5 – b4 11. Kf7 – e7 Kg5 – f5 12. Ke7 – d6 b4 – b3 13. Lh2 – e5 Kf5 – e4 14. Be5 – b2 Ke4 – f4 15. Kd6xd7 Kf4 – g3 16. d5 – d6 Kg3xg2 17. Kd7 – e6 h4 – h3 18. d6 – d7 h3 – h2 19. d7 – d8D h2 – h1D 20. Qd8 – d5 + Kg2 –G1 21. Bb2 – d4 + Kg1 – h2 22. Bd4 – e5 + Kh2 – g1 23. Qd5 – d1 + Kg1 – g2 24. Qd1 – e2 + Kg2 – h3 25. Ke6 – f5! Qh1 – b1 + 26. Kf5 – g5 Qb1 – g1 + 27. Kg5 – h5 and Black becomes mate .

author

From 1954 Kuznetsov edited a column in Shachmaty w SSR . Since 1971 he has headed the chess composition section of this chess magazine. He is the author of numerous articles on questions of chess composition. He also led columns in the Bulletin of the Central Chess Club of the USSR and in Shachmatny Bulletin .

In Tsveta Shachmatnogo Spectra (The Colors of the Chess Spectrum ), Kuznetsov presents 50 of the best studies by the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Boris Andreevich Sakharov.

title

In 1961 Kuznetsov became a Master of Sports of the USSR , in 1965 International Chess Composition Referee and in 1980 FIDE awarded him the title of International Chess Composition Master .

Works

• Anatoly Georgievich Kuznetsov: Zweta Schachmatnogo spectra . Fiskultura i sport, Moscow 1980

Private

Kuznetsov was a journalist. His health deteriorated in the last years of his life. During an operation, a large part of his stomach was removed, after which the doctors predicted that he would die soon. He died on his 68th birthday.

literature

• John Roycroft : Obituary: † Anatoly Grigorevich Kuznetsov [ sic! ]. In: EG , 138, p. 200

Web links

• Compositions by Anatoly Kuznetsov on the PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EG , 5, p. 94
2. ↑ AE Karpow (editor-in-chief): Schachmaty enziklopeditscheski slowar . Sovetskaya enziklopedija, Moskwa 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 187.
3. ↑ International referees for chess compositions
4. ↑ International masters for chess compositions