Grand master of chess composition
Grandmaster for Chess Composition is a title awarded since 1972 to authors of chess problems , which are anthologically selected and reprinted in FIDE albums by a committee of experts . It is awarded by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), which was initially founded in 1956 as a subdivision of the World Chess Federation FIDE and, after its independence from the World Chess Federation in 2010, was restructured as a partner organization .
The first title awarded was the 1959 honoris causa and 1961 International Master of Chess Composition , awarded according to the point rules listed below , which stands under the title of Grand Master. In 1990 the again lower title FIDE Master of Chess Composition was introduced. The honorary title Honorary Master has also been awarded since 1986 .
Titles in solving chess compositions are awarded after success in tournaments. Although a system similar to the Elo number is used to determine the dissolving strength, the awarding of the title is independent of the rating number.
Title requirements
Titles in the creation of chess compositions are awarded according to a point system, in which each task published in a FIDE album earns the author one point. Deviating from this, chess studies receive 1.67 points. If there are several authors of a task, each author receives a proportional number of points in equal parts, around half the number of points for two authors or a third of the points for three authors.
For the titles of FIDE Master, International Master and Grand Master of Chess Composition, these points are used as a basis for evaluation, while the title of Honorary Master is independent of them.
For the title in solving chess compositions, successes at the official solving world championships are required.
| Title for composers | Points | Correspondence of the points | Initial award | Title holder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandmaster | 70 | 70 problems or 42 studies | 1972 | 84 |
| International master | 25th | 25 problems or 15 studies | 1959, 1961 | 152 |
| FIDE master | 12 | 12 problems or 8 studies | 1990 | 157 |
| Honorary Master | 0 | not applicable | 1986 | 20th |
While participation in the World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is a prerequisite for the title of Grand Master and International Master and successes must be achieved in a certain number of consecutive tournaments, but not necessarily one after the other, the FIDE master title can can be achieved at any official WFCC solving championship. For the international championship title it is alternatively sufficient to reach the number of points of the WCSC winner once.
| Title for solvers | Points | placement | Tournaments | Initial award | Title holder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandmaster | 90 percent of the WCSC winner | 1–10 each | 3 of 10 WCSC | 1982 | 26th |
| International master | 80 percent of the WCSC winner | 1–15 each | 2 of 5 WCSC | 1982 | 54 |
| or | 100 percent of the WCSC winner | 1-15 | 1 WCSC | ||
| FIDE master | 75 percent of the winner | upper 40 percent | Any 2 | 1997 | 58 |
Title for authors of chess compositions
Grand master of chess composition
The grandmaster title is the highest master title for creators of chess compositions. Since it was first awarded in 1972, the title has been awarded to 84 people.
György Páros , Jacobus Haring , Norman Macleod , Matti Myllyniemi and Evgeni Bogdanow were awarded the title posthumously because they only achieved the required number of points after their death. Myllyniemi was posthumously co-authored by a task revised by Milan Velimirović and thus received half a point for the title, which was missing during his lifetime. Miroslav Havel and Artur Mandler received their titles for previous publications.
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Title for solvers of chess compositions
Grand master in solving chess compositions
The grandmaster title for solvers of chess compositions is linked to high conditions, including participation in several world championships, through which so far only 33 people are allowed to claim the title for themselves. Due to these requirements, the number of individual victories at a world championship, if any, is given for the respective title holders. The individual winner has only been determined since 1983, while world championships have been held since 1977. The best individual results were achieved four times by Pauli Perkonoja and once each by Ofer Comay and the Bulgarian Kosta Angelow at the events that did not count as an individual World Championship .
| Year of award | Surname | nation | WCSC victories | Born | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Pauli Perkonoja |
 Finland
|
3 | 07/19/1941 | |
| 1984 | Kari Valtonen |
Finland
|
1 | 04/26/1954 | |
| 1984 | Milan Velimirović |
 Serbia
|
0 | 04/21/1952 | 02/25/2013 |
| 1985 | Ofer comay |
 Israel
|
2 | December 27, 1957 | |
| 1988 | Roland Baier |
 Switzerland
|
1 | 08/11/1954 | |
| 1988 | Marjan Kovačević |
Serbia
|
0 | 04/08/1957 | |
| 1988 | Arno Zude |
 Germany
|
1 | May 24, 1964 | |
| 1991 | Georgi Yevseyev |
 Russia
|
4th | 05/28/1962 | |
| 1993 | Michael Pfannkuche |
Germany
|
1 | 09/01/1956 | |
| 1997 | Jonathan Mestel |
 United Kingdom
|
1 | 03/13/1957 | |
| 1997 | Sergei Rumyantsev |
Russia
|
0 | 1956 | |
| 1998 | Ram Soffer |
Israel
|
0 | 09/06/1965 | |
| 1999 | Jorma Paavilainen |
Finland
|
1 | 04/05/1960 | |
| 2000 | Boris Tummes |
Germany
|
0 | 05/17/1969 | |
| 2001 | Noam Elkies |
Israel / United States
|
1 | 08/25/1966 | |
| 2002 | Michel Caillaud |
 France
|
0 | 04/10/1957 | |
| 2002 | Graham Lee |
United Kingdom
|
0 | 07/27/1953 | |
| 2002 | Piotr Murdzia |
 Poland
|
7th | 02/20/1975 | |
| 2004 | John Nunn |
United Kingdom
|
2 | 04/25/1955 | |
| 2004 | Dolf Wissmann |
 Netherlands
|
0 | December 25, 1964 | |
| 2007 | Alexander Aussin |
Russia
|
0 | 05.12.1951 | |
| 2008 | Miodrag Mladenović |
Serbia
|
0 | 06/14/1964 | |
| 2008 | Andrei Selivanov |
Russia
|
1 | 07/09/1967 | |
| 2008 | Bojan Vučković |
Serbia
|
0 | 09/12/1980 | |
| 2009 | Eddy Van Beers |
 Belgium
|
0 | 05/11/1973 | |
| 2009 | Vladimir Podinić |
Serbia
|
0 | 05.03.1980 | |
| 2010 | Michal Dragoun |
 Czech Republic
|
0 | 03/01/1974 | |
| 2011 | Kacper Piorun |
Poland
|
5 | 02/11/1984 | |
| 2011 | Ladislav Salai Jr. |
 Slovakia
|
0 | January 18, 1961 | |
| 2014 | Martynas Limontas |
 Lithuania
|
0 | 02/11/1984 | |
| 2014 | Anatoly Mukossejew |
Russia
|
0 | 11/13/1958 | |
| 2015 | Oleksiy Solovchuk |
 Ukraine
|
0 | 1981 | |
| 2016 | Aleksander Miśta |
Poland
|
0 | 07/01/1983 | |
| 2017 | Marko Filipović |
 Croatia
|
0 | 10/08/1982 | |
| 2019 | Piotr Górski |
Poland
|
1 | 09/01/1989 |
See also
References and comments
- ^ Statutes of the WFCC (English), accessed on March 30, 2011
- ^ Title holder (GMC) on the WFCC website
- ^ Title holder (IMC) on the WFCC website
- ^ Title holder (FMC) on the WFCC website
- ↑ Title holder (Honorary Master) on the WFCC website
- ↑ The award of titles is independent of the number of points achieved
- ^ WFCC Statutes, annex III
- ^ Title holder (GS) on the WFCC website
- ^ Title holder (IMS) on the WFCC website
- ^ Title holder (FMS) on the WFCC website
- ↑ a b Source for the life data, unless otherwise stated or already in Wikipedia: Composers' Names in Various Alphabets
- ↑ World Champions of Chess Solving ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at problemchess.com
- ↑ Single wins only, from the WFCC list of WCSC winners
- ↑ http://www.hilmar-ebert.de/B.htm
- ↑ http://chesscomposers.blogspot.de/2012/05/may-28th.html
- ↑ Profile at chessgames.com
- ↑ Profile at my-corner.de , proof of identity through the DSB profile link there
- ^ Profile at olimpbase.org
Web link
- Handbook of Chess Composition , 6th edition 2013, with all title holders ( PDF file, English; 1 MB)