List of grandmasters for chess composition
Appearance
This article gives three 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.
International Honorary Masters for chess composition
Year Name Country 1986 Antonio Arguelles (†) Spain 1986 John Niemann (†) West Germany 1986 Antonio Piatesi (†) Italy 1987 Hans Klüver (†) West Germany 1987 Gregorz Grzeban (†) Poland 1988 Alexander Pituk (†) Czechoslovakia 1988 Janos Kiss (†) Hungary 1988 Ferenc Fleck (†) Hungary 1989 Gino Mentasti (†) Italy 1991 Albert Koldijk (†) Netherlands 1991 Jean Zeller (†) France 1992 Colin Vaughan (†) United Kingdom 1994 Kurt Smulders (†) Belgium 1998 Eliahu Fasher (†) Israel 1999 Giorgio Mirri (†) Italy 1999 Savo Zlatić (†) Croatia 2000 Rui Nascimento (†) Portugal 2006 Jeremy Morse (†) United Kingdom 2007 Sonomun Chimedtseren (†) Mongolia 2007 Odette Vollenweider Switzerland 2012 Hermann Weissauer (†) Germany 2015 Hannu Harkola 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 Sergej Rumyantsev Russia 1998 Ram Soffer Israel 1999 Jorma Paavilainen Finland 2000 Boris Tummes Germany 2001 Noam Elkies United States 2002 Michel Caillaud France 2002 Graham Lee United Kingdom 2002 Piotr Murdzia Poland 2004 John Nunn United Kingdom 2004 Dolf Wissmann Netherlands 2007 Alexandr Azhusin Russia 2008 Miodrag Mladenović Serbia 2008 Andrey Selivanov Russia 2008 Bojan Vučković Serbia 2009 Eddy van Beers Belgium 2009 Vladimir Podinić Serbia 2010 Michal Dragoun Czech Republic 2011 Kacper Piorun Poland 2011 Ladislav Salai Jr. Slovakia 2014 Martynas Limontas Lithuania 2014 Anatoly Mukoseev Russia 2015 Oleksy Solovchuk Ukraine