Mikhail Sinar

Mikhail Sinar, 2008

Michail Afanassjewitsch Sinar ( Ukrainian Михайло Опанасович Зинар ) ( Russian Михаил Афанасьевич Зинар ) (born May 9, 1951 in Hwosdawka Perscha ) is a Ukrainian chess composer . Along with Grigoriev, he is considered the most important composer of pawn endings .

Life

According to his own statements, Sinar was born on November 22, 1950, but his passport says May 9, 1951. He experienced childhood and school years in Hwosdawka Perscha .

Chess composition

Mikhail Sinar
Shachmaty w SSSR , 1974

	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

At the age of 23, at that time still living in Feodosiya , Sinar took part for the first time - less than twelve months after the publication of Bondarenko's book Etjud v peschechnom okonchanii - in a composition tournament of the magazine Shachmaty w SSSR . His study showed a pawn ending with the solution 1. Kd2 – c2 Ke7 – f7! 2. Kc2 – b2! Kf7 – g6 3. Kb2 – a3 !! Kg6 – f6 4. Ka3 – b3 Kf6 – f5 5. Kb3 – b4 Kf5 – f4 6. Kb4 – b5 Kf4 – e3 7. Kb5 – c4 Ke3 – f3 8. Kc4xd4 Kf3 – f4 9. Kd4 – c3! Kf4 – e3 10. Kc3 – c4 Ke3 – e2 11. Kc4 – b5 and White wins. So far he has composed more than 250 studies. Although, with a few exceptions, he only composed pawn endings, he won several awards with it. He often composed studies with sub-metamorphoses and did pioneering work there. He also dealt with the Réti maneuver .

Although he was only a candidate for champions on the board , he wrote a chapter in Yuri Awerbach's book on pawn endings devoted to the systems of opposing fields. In his foreword to the Russian edition, Awerbach wrote: "Otherwise this chapter would look outdated." In 1986, Sinar was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR .

Mikhail Sinar

In 1990, Sinar stopped publishing chess compositions. In 1996, Sergei Tkachenko visited Sinar in his then home town of Hwosdawka Perscha , as Tkachenko learned in a conversation with Anatoly Georgievich Kuznetsov , and found out that Sinar, who worked as a teacher, lived with his family on the subsistence level and therefore did not have the means. Due to political friction in Odessa, which led to the withdrawal of a financier, Tkachenko had to stop a project that had started after the visit, through which Sinar, among other things, should have received financial support. In 2000, Sinar published a study for the last time. With the sudden death of Kuznetsov in 2000, efforts to get Kuznetsov and Sinar to work together failed. A short time later there was a rumor that Sinar had also died.

In 2007, Tkachenko began researching Sinar for an article. He called Hwosdawka Perscha, whereupon he was told that Sinar was alive, healthy and working in the school. In the meantime, Sinar has actively returned to chess composition. He was also a judge in a pawn endgame study tournament.

Works

• MA Sinar; WM Artschakow: Garmonija peschetschnogo etjuda , Kiev, Radjanska schkola, 1990, ISBN 5-330-00853-0

swell

• Sergei Tkachenko and Sergiy Diduch: Mir peschetschnich strastej ili tschudesnoje voskreschenije Mastera , in: Problemist Ukrainy, 3/2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergei Nikolajewitsch Tkachenko: Koroli schachmatnoj pechoty (Kings of the Chess People), Part 2, Michail Afanasjewitsch Sinar (Russian)
2. ↑ Этюд в пешечном окончании ( study in pawn endgame )
3. ^ Juri Awerbach: Bauernendspiele , Sportverlag, Berlin, 1988, page 6, ISBN 3-328-00236-7 .
4. ↑ Yuri Averbach : Schachmatnyje okonschanije - peschechnyje , 2-e isdanije, Fiskultura i sport, Moskwa, 1983, page 5
5. ↑ Мир пешечных страстей или чудесное воскрешение Мастера (The world of passion for peasants or the wonderful resurrection of the master)