International arbitrator for chess composition

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The International Referee for chess problem or International Judge for chess problem ( Engl. I nternational J udge of C hess C ompositions (IJCC) ) is one of the FIDE over the umbrella organization of FIDE for chess problem ( WFCC conferred) to individuals titles that already several tournaments for chess problems or chess studies and have already been able to win awards for their own compositions in tournaments, so that they are therefore able or capable of awarding such awards at the highest level.

The binding guidelines for the award of the title are set out in the statutes of the WFCC (Annex IIId). The title is valid for a lifetime from the day it is awarded; but can be revoked in very special exceptional cases - gross abuse in the use or gross violation of the ethics of the title - after final confirmation by the General Assembly of FIDE.

The title was first awarded in 1956 . In the past, a number of well-known chess players with tournament practice, such as B. Michail M. Botwinnik , Wassili W. Smyslow , Dawid Bronstein , Paul Keres , Juri L. Awerbach and Wolfgang Unzicker , this title awarded. Nowadays, due to the historical separation of game and problem chess, the title is awarded to people who are largely unknown to the chess game in tournament practice (and thus inevitably also to the general public). Regardless of this, many composers are both international judges and “ international masters for chess composition ” due to the official award guidelines and their problematic chess work . In most cases the referee title was awarded first, e.g. B. for Anatoli G. Kuznetsov , Alexander Hildebrand , György Bakcsi and Norman Macleod as well as for the German chess composers Herbert Ahues , Franz Pachl and Werner Speckmann , to name but a few.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hannu Harkola: "Judging Titles" under "Annex III" , September 2011, In: Statutes of the WFCC . ( EN ) Retrieved on February 25, 2013.

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