Fatikh Sadikovich Aitov (* Russia, Tuesday 23.03.1909   -   † 1982)

Chess composer of endgame studies

Life

Chemical engineer born in Igesvk, capital of the small Russian republic of Udmurti, who started as a problem composer at the age of forty,

Chess

Later devoted himself to the composition of endgame studies.
Candidate for Master of Sport of the Soviet Union for his personal contribution and for his work of diffusion of chess composition.
Engineer Aitov stands out for the "pure and elegant" way in which his ideas are expressed in most of his works;
And in this concept of "purity" implies the almost total absence of variants, because they are unnecessary.

Others

10 endgame studies (all with win) composed by him are selected and can be replayed on the Dutch Website arves.org.

Source: arves.org