Selection of studies composed by

Saggere Visweswariaiah Simhadri

(India, 1941- Aug.2017)

He served as a Reader (Lecturer) at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

During the 1970s and 1980s, he ran a chess club known as the Chess Academy and was deeply involved in promoting the game.

He published numerous pamphlets and booklets aimed at popularising chess and acted as a mentor to many players and composers.

An avid collector, he amassed an extensive library of old chess magazines and books. A bachelor by choice, he devoted much of his life to chess.

Many of his endgame studies appeared in the Indian magazine Sportsweek and the newspaper Indian Express.

Unfortunately, a number of his fifteen known studies, though interesting in conception, have flaws later discovered by engines.

 He lived in Bangalore now called Bengaluru.

Anecdote:

"Almost half a century back, I told him that I did not know Russian.
He took me to task!
Later he painstakingly wrote down essential Russian chess terms and their English translations and handed over the above sheets.
I have lovingly preserved these sheets."