Iuri Akobia is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 composer of chess endgame studies and chess problems. He was born in Anaklia

Anaklia

Anaklia is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea, near the administrative border with Abkhazia.- History :...

, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR

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, on May 20, 1937. For most of his working life he was a radio communications engineer

Engineer

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 in the National Center for Radio and TV of Georgia, and was Chief Engineer from 1975 until 1996.

His activity as a chess composer began in 1975 when he published his first study. Up to now he has produced about 300 studies (some with his fellow countryman David Gurgenidze) and 50 problems. He won a great many awards and prizes in tourneys of chess composition.

In 1995 he was awarded by the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions

Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions

The Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition, mandated by FIDE.Currently 39 countries are represented in the PCCC.Main duties of the Commission include:...

 (PCCC) the title of International Judge for Chess Composition.

Works

• Mat v Etiudiakh (Russian) (1990) with Gia Nadareishvili, an anthology of 3660 studies ending with checkmate.
• Three volumes of the "World Anthology of Chess Studies":
  • 4332 Studies with Stalemate (1994)
  • 4492 Studies with mate (1994) with Gia Nadareishvili
  • 4324 Studies with Positional Draw (1995).
• Study Mosaic (1995–2002) - A series of 13 booklets on study composition, with David Gurgenidze.

External links

• http://akobia.geoweb.ge/