Wallace Daykin Ellison

Wallace Daykin Ellison (England, 8.10.1911 - 7.10.1999)

Chess player and chess composer of 33 endgame studies

Life

He was a distinguished teacher of mathematics from Burton-on-Trent.

Sometimes collaborated with Walter Veitch in providing analytical notes to EG,

the magazine on endgame studies launched by John Roycroft in 1965."

(Brian Gosling, internet).

Played county chess for Yorkshire and Leicestershire. 

John Beasley wrote an Obituary, British Endgame Study News, Vol. 4, No.4, December 1999.

"Wallace Ellison died on October 7, one day sholt of his 88rh binhday. He had been
a teacher of mathematics, and I imagine he had been a very good one. I went to see
him a few years ago, when he was nearly 85, and there was none of the need to talk
slowly and repetitively that usually arises when talking to people of such an age;

A sharp mind into old age;
he was still extremely sharp, and I was fully stretched trying to keep up.
Wallace was a good county player (he played on high boards both for his native
Yorkshire and for Leicestershire). but it is for his endgame studies that he will be remembered.

2 short periods of endgame study composing:

The examples kindly sent to me by Harold van der Heijden suggest that he composed
only from 1969 to 1972 (though some studies published during this period may have
been composed earlier) and again from 1994 until a serious fall in 1996 took the edge
from his concentration, but these two short periods were enough to establish his name."

About his endgame studies:

 His chess studies are characterised by great mastery of the material. Ideas are clearly presented without using superfluous additional material.

Source: Dutch Website of ARVES.org

Others: 6 endgame studies by Wallace Daykin Ellison are selected on the Dutch Website ARVES.org.