Sergey Pavlovich Filaretov

Sergey Pavlovich Filaretov

Chess composer (Russia, 1898-1928)

A prominent Russian chess composer from Saransk, in the region of Pensenk, who worked as a journalist and whose chess games were known in the 1920s.
Despite of dying young, he managed to compose numerous problems and a score of studies with very ingenious ideas and brief solutions,
being distinguished with several prizes in competitions, in addition to the publication of five of these finals in the first Album of the FIDE.