Ernest Levonovich Pogosyants^[1] (June 5, 1935,Chuhuiv – August 16, 1990) was a Soviet-Armenian composer ofchess problems andendgame studies. He composed about 6,000 problems and studies,^[2] almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created byT. R. Dawson.^[3] In 1988 he was awarded the titleGrandmaster for Chess Compositions.^[2]

Harold van der Heijden included 1,727 studies by Pogosyants in his endgame study database. This represented the largest number of studies by any one composer.Henri Rinck,Alexey Troitsky, andLadislav Prokes were the only other composers with more than 1,000 endgame studies.^[4]

• Castling in Studies by Ernest Pogosyants.EG 56, June 1978, page 5.
• Tim Krabbé, Tim (25 December 1999),"Pogosyants' sleepless nights",Open Chess Diary

• Pogosyants, Ernest (1999), Roycroft, John (ed.),A (First) Century of Studies, Russel Enterprises,ISBN 978-1-888690-05-7

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