Erik Pogosyants

or

Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants or Pogosjanc

(Russia, 04.06.1935 - 16.08.1990)

He is GrandMaster of the FIDE in Chess Composition and the most productive composer ever lived.

Ernest Pogosyants was the most prolific endgame study composers, with more than 1,700 units.
In total he composed more than 6,000 chess problems and endgame studies.
You may read his article in EG 56 (magazine for endgame studies), June 1978, about Castling in chess studies.

Pogosjants was one of the most prolific composers. Since 1958 he has published over 6,100 studies and 1,100 chess problems. Many of them were published in regional newspapers and magazines and thus remained largely unknown to the chess world. Sometimes his compositions appeared in regional newspapers in notation without a diagram, for example as a solving competition. In Shakhmaty in SSSR alone, 6 of his studies appeared monthly as analysis and endgame training under the heading School of Analysis.

Ernest Pogosjanz composed numerous miniatures and five-stone pieces. He strived for effective solutions with the most economical use of resources and, wherever possible, adhered to the principles of classical composition. In 1988 he became grand master of chess composition.

Life

Ernest Pogosjanz taught maths.

As a somewhat naive young man, he was imprisoned for criticising KGB chief Alexander Shelepin. As a result of the drug treatments he had to endure in a psychiatric clinic, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. These experiences did not prevent him from remaining true to his communist ideals.

Source: Germain Wikipedia and ARVES.org