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 Lev Loshinskij (†)
Soviet Union
1972 Comins Mansfield (†)
United Kingdom
1972 Eeltje Visserman (†)
Netherlands
1976 Vladimir Bron (†)
Soviet Union
1976 Jindrich Fritz (†)
Czechoslovakia
1976 Vladimir Korolkov (†)
Soviet Union
1976 Vladimir Pachman (†)
Czechoslovakia
1976 György Paros (†)
Hungary
1976 Nenad Petrović (†)
Yugoslavia
1980 György Bakcsi (†)
Hungary
1980 Hrvoje Bartolović (†)
Yugoslavia
1980 Bo Lindgren (†)
Sweden
1980 Gia Nadareishvili (†)
Soviet Union
1980 Valentin Rudenko (†)
Soviet Union
1984 Claude Goumondy
France
1984 Iosif Krikheli (†)
Soviet Union
1984 Petko Petkov
Bulgaria
1984 Hans Peter Rehm
West Germany
1984 Touw Hian Bwee
Indonesia
1988 Cor Goldschmeding (†)
Netherlands
1988 Alexandr Grin-Guljaev (†)
Soviet Union
1988 Ernest Pogosjancz (†)
Soviet Union
1988 Jakov Vladimirov
Soviet Union
1988 Milan Vukčević (†)
United States
1989 Herbert Ahues (†)
West Germany
1989 Viktor Chepizhnij
Soviet Union
1989 Emilian Dobrescu
Romania
1990 David Gurgenidze
Soviet Union
1990 Jacobus Haring (†)
Netherlands
1992 Fadil Abdurahmanović
Yugoslavia
1992 Jan Rusinek
Poland
1993 Venelin Alaikov (†)
Bulgaria
1993 Michel Caillaud
France
1993 Andrej Lobusov (†)
Russia
1993 Norman Macleod (†)
United Kingdom
1993 Byron Zappas (†)
Greece
1995 Michael Keller
Germany
1995 Alexandr Kuzovkov
Moldova
1996 Toma Garai (†)
United States
1996 Živko Janevski
North Macedonia
2001 Virgil Nestorescu
Romania
2004 Unto Heinonen
Finland
2004 Jean-Marc Loustau
France
2004 Mikhail Marandyuk
Ukraine
2004 Waldemar Tura
Poland
2005 Udo Degener
Germany
2005 Nikolai Kralin
Russia
2005 Franz Pachl
Germany
2005 Oleg Pervakov
Russia
2007 Alexandr Feoktistov
Russia
2007 Yves Cheylan
France
2007 Marjan Kovačević
Serbia
2007 Miodrag Mladenović
Serbia
2007 Valery Shanshin
Russia
2007 Valery Shavyrin
Russia
2007 Anatoly Slesarenko
Russia
2009 Uri Avner (†)
Israel
2009 Andrey Selivanov
Russia
2010 Reto Aschwanden
Switzerland
2010 Wieland Bruch
Germany
2010 Vasyl Dyachuk
Ukraine
2010 Camillo Gamnitzer
Austria
2010 Matti Myllyniemi (†)
Finland
2010 Marcel Tribowski
Germany
2010 Milan Velimirović (†)
Serbia
2010 Klaus Wenda
Austria
2012 Evgeny Bogdanov (†)
Ukraine
2012 Michal Dragoun
Czech Republic
2012 Valery Gurov
Russia
2012 Peter Gvozdjak
Slovakia
2012 Miroslav Havel (†)
Czech Republic
2012 Christopher Jones
United Kingdom
2012 Artur Mandler (†)
Czech Republic
2012 Mario Parrinello
Italy
2012 Ivan Soroka
Ukraine
2013 Alexandr Azhusin
Russia
2013 Anatoly Styopochkin
Russia
2015 Yochanan Afek
Israel
2015 Hubert Gockel
Germany
2015 John Rice
United Kingdom
2015 Aleksey Sochnev
Russia
2017 Richard Becker
United States
2023 Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen
Denmark
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 Grzegorz 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
See also
- List of chess grandmasters
- FIDE Album It explains the scoring required to become a master in composition.