List of grandmasters for chess composition

This article lists:

• International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies^[1]
• International Honorary Masters for chess composition^[2]
• International Solving Grandmasters^[3]

Such awards were formerly managed by FIDE through its section for chess composition, the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition, and now awarded by the World Federation for Chess Composition, an independent body that co-operates with FIDE.^[4]

International Grandmasters for chess compositions[]

Note: deceased Grandmasters are indicated with (†) – Nationality is that of the year when the title was awarded.

Year	Name	Country
1972	Genrich Kasparjan (†)	Soviet Union
1972	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1972	Comins Mansfield (†)	United Kingdom
1972	[de] (†)	Netherlands
1976	Vladimir Bron (†)	Soviet Union
1976	[de] (†)	Czechoslovakia
1976	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1976	[de] (†)	Czechoslovakia
1976	[de] (†)	Hungary
1976	Nenad Petrović (†)	Yugoslavia
1980	[de]	Hungary
1980	Hrvoje Bartolović (†)	Yugoslavia
1980	[de] (†)	Sweden
1980	Gia Nadareishvili (†)	Soviet Union
1980	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1984	[de]	France
1984	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1984	[de]	Bulgaria
1984	[de]	West Germany
1984	[de]	Indonesia
1988	[de] (†)	Netherlands
1988	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1988	[de] (†)	Soviet Union
1988	[de]	Soviet Union
1988	Milan Vukčević (†)	United States
1989	[de] (†)	West Germany
1989	[de]	Soviet Union
1989	Emilian Dobrescu	Romania
1990	[de]	Soviet Union
1990	[de] (†)	Netherlands
1992	[de]	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1992	Jan Rusinek	Poland
1993	[de] (†)	Bulgaria
1993	Michel Caillaud	France
1993	[de] (†)	Russia
1993	Norman Macleod (†)	United Kingdom
1993	[de] (†)	Greece
1995	[de]	Germany
1995	[de]	Moldova
1996	[de] (†)	United States
1996	[it]	North Macedonia
2001	[de]	Romania
2004	[it]	Finland
2004	[de]	France
2004	[de]	Ukraine
2004	[de]	Poland
2005	[de]	Germany
2005	[de]	Russia
2005	Franz Pachl	Germany
2005	[de]	Russia
2007	[de]	Russia
2007	[it]	France
2007	Marjan Kovačević	Serbia
2007	[de]	Serbia
2007	[de]	Russia
2007	[de]	Russia
2007		Russia
2009	[de] (†)	Israel
2009	Andrey Selivanov	Russia
2010		Switzerland
2010	[de]	Germany
2010	[lv]	Ukraine
2010	[de]	Austria
2010	(†)	Finland
2010	[de]	Germany
2010	Milan Velimirović (†)	Serbia
2010	[it]	Austria
2012	[de] (†)	Ukraine
2012	[it]	Czech Republic
2012		Russia
2012	Peter Gvozdjak	Slovakia
2012	[de] (†)	Czech Republic
2012	[it]	United Kingdom
2012	[de] (†)	Czech Republic
2012	[it]	Italy
2012		Ukraine
2013		Russia
2013		Russia
2015	Yochanan Afek	Israel
2015		Germany
2015	[de]	United Kingdom
2015		Russia
2017		United States

International Honorary Masters for chess composition[]

Year	Name	Country
1986	(†)	Spain
1986	(†)	West Germany
1986	(†)	Italy
1987	(†)	West Germany
1987	(†)	Poland
1988	Alexander Pituk (†)	Czechoslovakia
1988	Janos Kiss (†)	Hungary
1988	(†)	Hungary
1989	(†)	Italy
1991	(†)	Netherlands
1991	(†)	France
1992	(†)	United Kingdom
1994	(†)	Belgium
1998	(†)	Israel
1999	(†)	Italy
1999	Savo Zlatić (†)	Croatia
2000	Rui Nascimento (†)	Portugal
2006	Jeremy Morse (†)	United Kingdom
2007	(†)	Mongolia
2007		Switzerland
2012	(†)	Germany
2015		Finland

International Solving Grandmasters[]

Year	Name	Country
1982	Pauli Perkonoja	Finland
1984	Kari Valtonen	Finland
1984	Milan Velimirović (†)	Yugoslavia
1985	Ofer Comay	Israel
1988	Roland Baier	Switzerland
1988	Marjan Kovačević	Yugoslavia
1988	Arno Zude	West Germany
1991	Georgy Evseev	Soviet Union
1993	Michael Pfannkuche	Germany
1997	Jonathan Mestel	United Kingdom
1997		Russia
1998	Ram Soffer	Israel
1999	Jorma Paavilainen	Finland
2000		Germany
2001	Noam Elkies	United States
2002	Michel Caillaud	France
2002		United Kingdom
2002	Piotr Murdzia	Poland
2004	John Nunn	United Kingdom
2004		Netherlands
2007		Russia
2008		Serbia
2008	Andrey Selivanov	Russia
2008	Bojan Vučković	Serbia
2009		Belgium
2009		Serbia
2010		Czech Republic
2011	Kacper Piorun	Poland
2011	Ladislav Salai Jr.	Slovakia
2014		Lithuania
2014		Russia
2015		Ukraine
2017		Croatia

See also[]

• List of chess grandmasters

References[]

External links[]

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