Mikhail Afanasievich Zinar

Date: 14 Nov 2007 22:07:55
From: Tantale
Subject: Mikhail Afanasievich Zinar

born 1951 was a gifted chess composer.

He was mainly interested in pawn studies.

But here are for of his studies with multiple under promotions.

http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Zinar/base.htm

JMR

Date: 14 Nov 2007 23:53:14
From: SBD
Subject: Re: Mikhail Afanasievich Zinar

On Nov 14, 3:07 pm, "Tantale" <[email protected] > wrote:
> born 1951 was a gifted chess composer.
>
> He was mainly interested in pawn studies.
>
> But here are for of his studies with multiple under promotions.
>
> http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Zinar/base.htm
>
> JMR

I believe he may be alive after he was reported dead. There was a
thread on this on the Mat Plus forum.

Date: 15 Nov 2007 07:52:33
From: Tantale
Subject: Re: Mikhail Afanasievich Zinar

Date: 15 Nov 2007 07:07:32
From: Tantale
Subject: I received thi mail from Sergiy Didukh

"SBD" <[email protected] > a �crit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...
> On Nov 14, 3:07 pm, "Tantale" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> born 1951 was a gifted chess composer.
>>
>> He was mainly interested in pawn studies.
>>
>> But here are for of his studies with multiple under promotions.
>>
>> http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Zinar/base.htm
>>
>> JMR
>
> I believe he may be alive after he was reported dead. There was a
> thread on this on the Mat Plus forum.
>
Le talentueux Mikhail Zinar est toujours en vie et il se sent tres bien. Il
habite Gvozdavka, un village en Crimee.
Malheureusement, il a abandonne la composition. Comme il dit, sa famille ne
comprendrait pas s'il passait son temps devant l'echiquier.
Je crois le comprendre, moi qui habite aussi un village.

saying that he is still alive and lives in Gvozdavka a village in Crimee.

So the informatios in http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary_10.htm Open
chess diary 196 of Tim Krabb� :
PS 5 August 2007: Thanks to Siegfried Hornecker who advised me of the
following post by Sergiy Didukh on the MatPlus.net forum, dated 31 July
2007:

"In 1995 Mikhail Afanasievich Zinar moved from Crimea to a little village
Gvozdavka-2 in Odessa region (300km from Odessa). He taught labour
discipline at school. In 1997 S.N.Tkachenko came to see him and M.Zinar told
him he abandoned composition because of financial difficulties. Those were
really hard times for Ukrainian people and especially for teachers. They
were paid 10-20 dollars a month. A little later M.Zinar prematurely died."
are to be corrected.

JMR