John Derek Beasley (15 February 1940 – 3 March 2024)Selection of studies composed by John Derek Beasley Beasley, John 1940-2024 was a British mathematician and chess composer.
Biography
Beasley published around fifty endgame studies.Amazon He became the editor of British Chess Magazine in 1995, and founded the magazine British Endgame Study News (which he edited) in 1996. (It had 65 issues, the last one being published in 2010.)British Endgame Study News He represented Great Britain at the World Chess Solving Championship in 1977 and 1978.
Publications
He is the coauthor (with Timothy Whitworth) of the books
Endgame Magic (Bastford 1996, ), The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire (Oxford University Press 1985 ), The Mathematics of Games (OUP, 1989 ). In 1978, Beasley translated and reissued the celebrated book of Phillipp Klett (1813–1910), Ph. Klett's Schachprobleme mit einer Einführung in die Theorie des Schachproblems, that appeared in 1878 and contained 112 compositions.
Bibliography Nicolas Giffard, Alain Biénabe, Le Nouveau Guide des échecs. Traité complet (in French), collection Bouquins, Robert Laffont, 2009
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