John Beasley (chess composer)


John Derek Beasley was a British mathematician and chess composer.

Biography

Beasley published around fifty endgame studies. He became the editor of British Chess Magazine in 1995, and founded the magazine British Endgame Study News in 1996. He represented Great Britain at the World Chess Solving Championship in 1977 and 1978.

Publications

He is the coauthor of the books
In 1978, Beasley translated and reissued the celebrated book of Phillipp Klett, Ph. Klett's Schachprobleme mit einer Einführung in die Theorie des Schachproblems, that appeared in 1878 and contained 112 compositions.