Emilio Battaglia

Emilio Battaglia (30-06-1917 - 04-09-2011) Italian chess composer

Chess composition

Emilio Battaglia was a twomover chess problem specialist, as can be seen in the first example below. He composed at least one selfmate in two (second diagram). He seems to have had two composing periods: in the 1930s and in the 1980-1990s.

Life

He was a professor of botany at the University of Pisa.