Marcel Lamare

Marcel Lamare (14-01-1856 – 24-11-1937) French chess composer

Marcel Lamare was also known as “Amateur de l'Ex-U.A.A.A.R.”. His obituary can be found in “La Stratégie” December 1937, for which he was a regular contributor. Alain Pallier wrote an article about Marcel Lamare’s remarkable collection of 12,000 endgame studies in EG 121 pg 870-871 (Endgame study magazine). In this article he estimated:
“Taking into account the identified lacunae, it may not be over-optimistic to conjecture that Lamare's 12,000 form 80% of the cumulative world production of studies by the year 1937.”