Lev Nikolaevich Tamkov

Lev Nikolaevich Tamkov (Belarus, 1937-1997)

Chess composer of problems and chess studies

Belarusian composer of Zhlobin, named "worthy architect of the Republic", who lived and developed his professional activities in the city of Gomel.

Chess composing of problems and chess studies:

Lev Nikolaevich Tamkov began composing problems of mate in three, four and more plays, and matte helped, preferably in miniatures, which were published in local magazines, European and American.

In the field of chess studies, he came to publish 53 works, with which he obtained very good results in individual local competitions or as a member of the team of his country in USSR championships.

SOURCE: "The Art of the Study of Chess" - T.IV (Former Soviet Union) Author: Zoilo R. Caputto- Bs.As. (Argentina) - 1996

EG index gives the following interesting references to articles in EG with him:

Tamkov Memorial Tourney 14591-94 (158)
Tamkov-70 Memorial Tourney 2007 17507-11 (183 supplement)

Sichev, V. Tamkov MT 578 (158)
Sichev, V. Tamkov-70 MT 2007 92 (183 supplement)

Tamkov, L.N. obituary - 171 (126)

Others: On the Dutch Website ARVES.org of chess studies 7 studies by Tamkov are selected (by Mario Guido García). 

   Some of these studies are corrected by Mario Guido García and Peter Siegfried Krug.

Source: arves.org (editor Peter Boll)