Bent Charles Michael (27.11.1919 – 28.12.2004)

British composer specialized in endgame. Bent had long been Britain’s leading composer of endgame studies. He has composed 840 studies and 300 problems, many of them received a prize. Beginning in 1975, he edited the British Chess magazine monthly study column for ten years. In 1993, together with Timothy Whitworth, he published a selection of 288 of his best endgame studies, entitled The Best of Bent.