Gia Nadareishvili

Gia Nadareishvili

Gia Nadareishvili ( Georgian გია ნადარეიშვილი ; born September 22, 1921 in Tbilisi ; † October 3, 1991 ) was a Georgian chess player . He was one of the leading study composers in the Soviet Union . The psychiatrist at a Tbilisi clinic specialized in endgame studies.

Life

Nadareishvili began composing studies as a student in 1938. In the same year he won first prize in a Soviet tournament. In total he composed around 500 studies. Since 1947 he was President of the Georgian Commission for Chess Composition and a member of the Central Committee.

Until shortly before his death, Nadareishvili took part as a delegate of the Soviet Union in the annual meetings of the Standing Commission for Chess Composition at FIDE ( PCCC ) . There, together with John Roycroft, he initiated the establishment of the Study subcommission (sub-commission for studies), which has been working reliably to this day.

Nadareishvili was the chief neurologist in the neurological department of the “1. Tbilisi Clinic ”. He was an Honored Doctor of Georgia .

Chess composition

John Roycroft , Gia Nadareischwili, Virgil Nestorescu and Jan Mortensen (from left to right) at the PCCC conference 1990 in Benidorm (Spain)

Gia Nadareishvili
tournament Yerevan, 1949
praise

	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 to move achieves a draw

Solution:

1. f8T! Underpromotion Th4
second Tf4 T2h3
3. Txa4 Kh2
4. b4 G1d stalemate

author

Nadareishvili published some works on studies. In 1975 Schachmatny etjud w Grusii the development of study composition in Georgia is documented in detail and in the foreword by Wascha Neidse an overview of the work of the country's composers is given.

In 1990 an encyclopedia Mat w etjudach was published together with Iuri Akobia . In this book, 3,567 mate studies are systematically classified according to their mate management .

Other books from the pen of Gia Nadareishvili are

• "Избранные Шахматные Этюды" ( Selected Chess Studies ), Publishing House "Fiskultura i Sport", Moscow, 1976
• "В поисках красоты" ( In search of beauty ), "Sabchota Sakartwelo" publishing house, Tbilisi, 1986

title

The FIDE awarded him in 1960 the title of International Referee for chess compositions and in 1980 the title of Grand Master of chess problem .

Web links

Commons : Gia Nadareishvili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Compositions by Gia Nadareishvili on the Schwalbe's PDB server
• Publications (National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, accessed August 31, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EG , 9, p. 258.
2. ↑ International referees for chess compositions
3. ↑ Grand master for chess compositions