Mikhail Nikolaevich Platov (1883, Riga - 1938) - chess composer ; follower of A. Troitsky . Together with his brother Vasily, he is a classic and one of the founders of modern chess etude . By education and by main profession - engineer.
 Mikhail Nikolaevich Platov | |
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| Country |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Riga |
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Biography
Born in a Riga merchant family. He entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute and in 1906 graduated with a degree in industrial engineering. During World War I, he was evacuated to Russia. He lived and worked first in Moscow, and in the 1930s he became a leading engineer at the Serpukhov defense plant. The chess composer and writer A. P. Kazantsev worked at the same factory. He left memories of his meetings with Mikhail Platov in the story “Fatal Mine” [1] .
Since 1903, M. N. Platov has published over 200 studies, mainly in collaboration with his brother Vasily . Many of their sketches occupied high places in competitions [2] .
On the night of October 4, 1937, at the height of the campaign of the Great Terror , MN Platov was arrested, accused of counter-revolutionary activity, sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp near Kargopol. In a letter dated May 9, 1938, he asked for new chess magazines to be sent to him and informed him that his health had been seriously shaken, he had been in hospital since February, and he was supposedly killed in August or September 1938. The latest news from Platov was a letter dated August 22, 1938, in which he wrote that his condition worsened. At the end of 1938, the parcels sent to him were returned [1] [3] .
Etudes
1908
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
| eight | eight | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| five | five | ||||||||
| four | four | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| one | one | ||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
Solution .
This begs 1. L: a7 + ?, but after 1 ... Kg6 2.d7 Rh3 + and 3 ... Rh8 White can only hope for a draw.
1. La3 !! Two thematic options are possible here.
(A) 1 ... Rg7 It is clear that you cannot take a white rook, on 1 ... Rg4 (g5) White quickly wins after 2. Rh3 + and 3. d7, and after 1 ... Rg8 you can simply exchange rooks and get queen.
2. Rh3 + Kg8
3. Rg3 !! , and black cannot prevent the appearance of the white queen.
(B) 1 ... Rg6
2.d7! Rd6
3. L: a7 Kg6
4. Ra6 !!
Proceedings
- V. and M. Platov . Collection of Chess Studies, 2nd edition, M. - L .: State Publishing House, 1928.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Grodzensky, 2004 , p. 92-103.
- ↑ Vladimirov Y., 2002 , p. 6.
- ↑ Whitworth, 1994 , p. 9-10.
Literature
- Vladimirov, Jacob. V. and M. Platov. - M .: Russian Chess House, 2002 .-- 56 p. - (Masterpieces of chess composition). - ISBN 5-94693-010-9 .
- Grodzensky S. Ya. Lubyansky Gambit. - M .: Terra-Sport, Olympia Press, 2004 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 5-93127-224-0 .
- Polovodin I. A. On the fate of the Platovs // 64 - Chess Review. - 1990. - No. 13. - S. 12-14.
- Timothy G. Whitworth. The Platov Brothers - Their Chess Endgame Studies. - Cambridge: TG Whitworth, 1994 .-- 147 p. - ISBN 9780950917313 .