Sam Loyd

Sam Loyd

male, deceased (1911)
Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, recreational mathematician, American, Tangram, Chessproblemist, recreational mathematics…chess composer, chess problem
Samuel Loyd (January 31, 1841-April 10, 1911), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American puzzle author and recreational...
Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Troitsky

male, deceased (1942)
death by starvation, chess composer, chess, siege of leningrad, alexei, Chessproblemist
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, or Troitzky (March 14, 1866-August 1942) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess...
Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar

female, 40 years old
Chess grandmaster, Hungarian-American, Women's World Chess Champion, Zsuzsa Polgár, Judit Polgar, Texas Tech University faculty…Chessproblemist, 2004 Chess Olympiad, chess player, chess, Chess woman grandmaster
Grandmaster Zsuzsa Polgar is a Hungarian-born American chess player. In 1984, at age 15, she became the top-ranked female player in the world and...
Thomas Rayner Dawson

Thomas Rayner Dawson

male, deceased (1951)
British, grasshopper, Chess variant, British sportspeople, Chessproblemist, fairies…chess problem, The British Chess Magazine, The Fairy Chess Review, Fairy chess piece, Grasshopper chess
Thomas Rayner Dawson, British chess problemist (28th November, 1889 Leeds - 16th December 1951) Thomas Dawson published his first problem, a...

Richard Réti

male, deceased (1929)
Master of the Chess Board, pianist, composer, First World War, chess player, hungarian…chess, World Chess Championship, Chessproblemist, New Ideas in Chess, blindfold chess
Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) - 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess p...
Leonid Kubbel

Leonid Kubbel

male, deceased (1942)
Soviet chess player, Chessproblemist, Russian, From Saint Petersburg, composer, chess composer…chess player
Leonid Iwanowitsch Kubbel was a Russian chess problem composer. He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad (currently, Saint Petersburg...
Milan Vukcevich

Milan Vukcevich

male, deceased (2003)
Case Western Reserve University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, physicist, chess player, Chemist, composer…chess, chess problem, chess composer, Chessproblemist, U.S. Chess Championship
Milan Radoje Vukcevich (March 11, 1937 - May 10, 2003) was a Yugoslav scientist, chess player and chess problem composer. Vukcevich was born in...
Jan Rusinek

Jan Rusinek

male, 59 years old
mathematician, Szachy, 8.b8R!!, 5.a8B!!, 4Nexf6, 1Ba6+ 2.b7…Oxford Companion to Chess, International Judge of Chess Composition, chess problem, Chessproblemist
Jan Rusinek (born 1950) is a Polish mathematician and chess problem composer, in which field he is particularly noted for his endgame studies. He...
Charles Masson Fox

Charles Masson Fox

male, deceased (1935)
family, Fox family of Falmouth, From Falmouth, quaker, falmouth, Businessman…Chessproblemist, chess problem
Charles Masson Fox was a prominent Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay...
Comins Mansfield

Comins Mansfield

deceased (1984)
composer, chess, Chessproblemist, chess composer
Comins Mansfield was a chess problem composer.