chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

showed the winning procedurer I Ka3 (the begin
nitrgolaiiangulation) 1... (b6 2Kb2Ka5 3
Kb3 (The iria.gnlation ends and Black is in a
squeeze: having to move he nusr withdraw his
king.) 3 . . . Kb6 .1 Kc3 Ka5 5 K.l2 Ka4 6Ke3
xb4 7Kd3Ka3 8 Kc,lKa4 9Kd5Kb4 10a3+.
T.ia.gnlation was undeBtood tu the loth cenlury
and perhdps eartier. rung was probably the
nst analysr of modem chess to perceive thal this
manauv.e had a wide application in pawn cndings.
TRITUNOVIa, PETAR 0910 80), International
Grandnasier (1953), chanpion bf Yugoslavia
1945, 1946, 1952, and 1961, joint champion 1947.
Born in Dubrovnik, he obtained his law deg.ee in
1933 od later became a govemnent of6cial. ln
1948 he came tenth in the Saltsjdbaden inteu onal:
eight of those ahove nin becane CANDTDAES.
Tiitunovia sas moderalely successful in several
toumane.tsolaboutcareSorySor9: ?rague 1946,
second equal wilh srolrz afrer NATDoRF: Chel
tenham-Birmingham-L.amingto. 1951, second
eqDal vith rhc a.d sr,&BERc half a poinl alter
clrco{ai Belgrade 1954, lhird aller lRoNsEN and
uArANoqa ahead of p.rRosyAN and Gligorii:
Bc,cmijk 1962, fiBli and Sarajevo 1962, thnd
afte. Gligoria and 6RrscB. In a snall toumaBenl
al Noordwijk in 1965 he came second ailer
BonrNMx. He played in scvcn Olympiads from
1935 to 1962, making ihe best lhird-boa.d s6re
(+8:4-1) in 1950, and conrested one impoflanr
match, dra*ing againsl Najdorf (+1=10 1) ar
Tritunoviawasalsaysahardnantobeat,bulhis
cautious positional style was no1 conducive to
grealersu@esses: he wasmore @ncc.ncdto aloid
loss lha, to win, At thc t4ipzig tou.nament 1965
he played 15 games a.d d.ew then all.
IRITUNOVI. VARIATTON. 669 in the ALESINE
DEENC!, fitsr played in a gme MarcrKo;da, Tle
Hague tournament 1921.
Tf,INGOV, GEORGI PETROV (193?- ), Inter
na(onal GraDdnaster (1963), Bukanm phyer.
Naiiooal champion in 1963 ed 1981, he played for
his conntry in many Olympiads frcm 1956. He
came nrst in three tournamcnts ol about calegory 7
or 8: Keeslem€t 1961 (a zonal eleno, vriac 1973,
equal wilh pArM, and Snederevo 1981, anoiher
she.dprize, Tringov's best achievement, howev
er, was a thnd p.ize (+5=10) €qual wilh rcLUcAyEvsK
atter soRr ed sx at Vinkovci 1976.
TRIPLE, to place tBo rooks and a queen of the
sane @lou. otr the same 6le or mnt with no other
men intenenins. (see AvEneff. BEcrcR, and
NArDoru for Sames in which the powertul conlrol
exercisod by t.ipled pieces on a file le.ds to a
TRIPLED PAWNS, three pawns ol th€ same
@lour o. the same 6le.
TRY 36I
IROITZKY, ALD'EI ALEXE1EVICH (I86G
1942), widely reSarded as the lounder of the
modem a.t of study composition. (Henri BNCK
also played a parr. bul Troitzky w6 the nore
inventive.) As a studenr dl Leningrad he ner nany
of Rnssiat chess enihusiasts. anons them carco{N,
sho edited a chess @lmn in Notoe Vmlo
a.d invited T.oitzky lo conl.ibute srudies. TNo
yeas later, in 189?, Trcitzlq left lor the counlry !o
take up a post as assistant lorester i. the distrid of
Smole.sk. his i.terest waned, atrd alter a lew yeas
his firsr conposing penod was over. He had shown
many new ideas but 6 he said latcr sone were
crudely expressed. His .etnrn io chess in 1906 was
marked by the publicadon in Deutsche Scho.h
:?,irng oI his eranination oI thc ENDGAME two
knights againsl pawn. It remains the most thorougl'
and recoadite analysis of any one kind ol endgane
a.d was lhe basis for a chanse in the Fry-MovE
uw m.ny yearslater. He resumcd composing and
*as especialy prolifrc betwce. 1908 and 1913. I.
1910 he qrole an article, published in the poriodical
Nr,a. layirg down the principles lor the
conposilion of sludies. (The nst complole Enslish
traf,slaiion was published by RoycRoft in EG, Jan.
1968.) He aho composed problems and becme
otre oI the world\ leading expone.ls of RErxo-
This period ended dunng tne
troubled times of 1917 when he lost allhis papes.
In 1923 he began his third composing period
'nellowed ad stil.ich in ide6 . (For a. example
oI his later wort see Ecqo. ) In 1928 the govemenr
oI the Russian Soviel Fede.ated Rcpubiic awarded
Troitzky lhe title of Honoured A Worker the
fst dme that .bess conposition vd ofiicially
regarded 6 an art form.
Troitzky ptrbtished 5r0 E &pielstudien i 1924,
a selection ol his owtr studies. and in 1934 a
conection ot 360 studies, includine so6e hom the
earlier book. and the Nhole ofthe analysis ofthe
endgame two knights againsl paw.i it w6lranslated
and published as C7,6s Studid (1937). A
reprin! of 1968 ex.ludes the endgme analysG, his
nosl inportant @nlribulion ro the 8ame. An
unassLming mar who spent much of nis ffe in
.emote places with chessmen for ompadons, he
died ot starvation during the siege oi LeninBrad.
All his papes including pieparation lor anothet
book pedsned with him. (See E.uo.)
Korolkov and Cnekhoter. hb4nnye Ettu.Iii
(1959) mniains 176 studies by Troitzky.
TROMPOWS(Y OPENING, 224, the orcaENs(t
opENrN6. Oclavio Siqueno F. Tronpoqsky
(189 ),onetimeBruilia.chanpion,triedilin
the 1930s and 1940s at aboui the sane time as
TRY, a nove other than a coo( shich could be
mislaken for the tey of a omposnion. A try may
be nerely incide.lal, a trap for the 6olver. o. a
IsMnc rRy. In England in the 1890s tries were