John Roycroft
Arthur John Roycroft (born 1929) is an English chess endgame study composer and author. For many years he worked at IBM UK, before joining Donald Michie at the machine intelligence unit of Edinburgh University. In 1959 he was given the title International Judge of Chess Compositions. In 1965 he founded EG, the first long-running journal dedicated to endgame studies. Roycroft served as editor and publisher through 1991. The journal continues to be published, but under Dutch ownership, and Roycroft remains its chief editor. His book Test Tube Chess (Faber, 1972, ISBN 0-8117-1734-8, revised as The Chess Endgame Study, 1981) is considered one of the best English-language examinations of endgame studies. He also served as the endgame study editor for the British Chess Magazine from 1973-1974.
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