Count Jean De Villeneuve Esclapon
- Birth Date:
- 18.01.1860
- Death date:
- 24.11.1943
- Length of life:
- 83
- Days since birth:
- 60015
- Years since birth:
- 164
- Days since death:
- 29390
- Years since death:
- 80
- Categories:
- Chess player
- Nationality:
- french
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Count Jean De Villeneuve Esclapon (France, 18.01.1860 - 24.11.1943)
Chessplayer and Chess composer of 50 problems and 130 endgame studies.
More information about him on the French website Heritage des Echecs and on Chesscomposers.blogspot.
Other links to information (in French) on problemiste.fr
Composer and Provencal player. Editor of the publication "L'Échiquier Francais" for three years
He was interested in composition at his maturity and came to create about 50 problems and 130 studies
Count De Villeneuve Esclapon was descended from Admiral Villeneuve, the unfortunate adversary of Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Source: Website ARVES by Peter Boll
About his endgame studies:
One of his chess studies became very famous. This chess study received a 1st prize in the chess magazine: Schweizerische Schachzeitung in 1923. In the final position, a white bishop and king holds a draw against a black king, black rook and black knight (positional draw).
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