calculation. Many of the more common themes have been given names by problemists (see chess problem terminology for a list). The key move of the solution...

The Problemist is a bimonthly chess problem magazine which has been in publication since January 1926. It originally had the subtitle "Proceedings of the...

Unsound magazine, and as the founding member of the experimental/noise band Problemist. In 2011 Davenport directed the feature documentary Too Sane for This...

describe chess moves. Michel Caillaud (born 10 April 1957) is a French chess problemist. In 1993, Caillaud gained the title Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess...

that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess,...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Antonín Novotný (22 August 1827 in Dobromilice – 9 March 1871) was a Czech chess composer...

Селиванов; born July 9, 1967) is a Soviet and Russian politician and chess problemist (also known also as a chess composer). He was Russian State Duma deputy...

Milan Velimirović (21 April 1952 – 25 February 2013) was a Serbian chess problemist and publisher. Milan Velimirović was born in Niš, Yugoslavia. Velimirović...

A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies...

((1907-09-07)7 September 1907 – (1989-11-09)9 November 1989) was a Croatian chess problemist. Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition...

Pietro Rossi (26 May 1924 – 18 November 2020) was an Italian chess endgame study composer. Rossi was born in Treviso in May 1924, but lived for most of...

Kari Valtonen (born April 26, 1954) is a Finnish chess problemist. Valtonen is chess problemist who worked in several genres, including endgame study,...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Norman Alasdair Macleod (6 December 1927, in Glasgow – 2 October 1991) was a Scottish chess...

Rayner Dawson (28 November 1889 – 16 December 1951) was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as "the father of Fairy Chess". He invented many fairy...

John Derek Beasley (15 February 1940 – 3 March 2024) was a British mathematician and chess composer. Beasley published around fifty endgame studies. He...

those directions). (The names princess and empress are common in the problemist tradition: in chess variants involving these pieces they are often called...

Pauli Perkonoja (born July 19, 1941) is a Finnish chess problemist. Perkonoja was born in a suburb of Tampere, but after a few years moved to Turku, where...

Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement. These were published by the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) as an offshoot of their magazine The Problemist which...

Roland Baier (born August 11, 1954) is a Swiss chess problemist. In 1983 Baier won the first individual World Chess Solving Championship. In 1988 he gained...

Ofer Comay (Hebrew: עופר קומיי; born 1957) is an Israeli chess problemist and a popular science writer who challenged the Standard Model of particle physics...

the Hampshire Telegraph and Post until the founding of The Problemist in 1926. The Problemist was published with the subtitle "Proceedings of the British...

(Russian: Георгий Александрович Евсеев; born 28 May 1962) is a Russian chess problemist. Evseev won four times the Soviet Union Chess Solving Championship (1982...

September 30, 1937 – September 9, 2019) was an Israeli chess master and problemist. His twin brother, Hillel Aloni (1937–2017), was also a chess player....

Charles Michael Bent was an English composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 27 November 1919 and died on 28 December 2004...

describe chess moves. Marjan Kovačević (* 8 April 1957) is a Serbian chess problemist. In 1988 Kovačević gained the title International Solving Grandmaster...

author. Stagg created the fictional sleuth Thornley Colton, known as Problemist, the genre's first blind detective living in New York City in the early...

Zude (born 14 May 1964) is a German chess International Master and chess problemist. Zude has won the German Chess Solving Championship several times (1983...

writer and visual artist Yoel Aloni (1937–2019), Israeli chess master and problemist Balter, Guth, Aloni & Co. (founded in 1974), Israeli law firm This page...

Odessa – 25 October 1967, Paris) was a French chess player, theorist, problemist, and a noted endgame study composer. Born in Odessa, in the Kherson Governorate...

called Josef Plachutta or Josip Plahuta, was a Slovene-descent chess problemist and chess player, known for his famous problem with the Plachutta theme...

Hamburgischer Correspondent, 1929. Zepler often worked with another German problemist, Adolf Kraemer; Im Banne des Schachproblems (1951, revised 1971) is a...

(born 24 January 1947, in Bytom, Poland) is a Polish–German chess master, problemist and author. He was a Polish national team trainer in 1978–1981 (the Polish...

Nicolaus Olahus, Catholic archbishop of Esztergom Valerian Onițiu, chess problemist Oskar Pastior, poet and translator Dan Perjovschi, Romanian artist Claudia...

1909, Mykolaiv – 1985, Sverdlovsk, USSR) was a Soviet chess master and problemist. Born into a Jewish family in Nikolaev (currently Mykolaiv), near Kherson...

Vučković (born 1980) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He is also strong chess problemist holding title of International solving grandmaster. Bojan Vuckovic rating...

Marseille – 18 November 1948, in Le Vésinet) was a French chess master, problemist and journalist. He lived in Paris, where he played in many local tournaments...

Jorma Paavilainen (born April 5, 1960) is a Finnish chess problemist. Twice (1983, 1985) played for Finland in World Youth U26 Team Chess Championships...

Hendrik von Meyenfeldt who published a chess problem using the rules in The Problemist (the magazine of the British Chess Problem Society) in 1975. Patrol chess...

Józef Żabiński (1860 – 27 December 1928) was a Polish chess master and problemist. Born in Warsaw (then in the Russian Empire), he was educated in a high...

in the 1930s Julius Mendheim (ca. 1788–1836), German chess master and problemist This page lists people with the surname Mendheim. If an internal link...

for bishop+knight, names which were adopted by numerous later chess problemists. Wolf Chess by Von Wilpert (1959) which introduces replaces one rook...

Michael Pfannkuche (born September 1, 1956) is a German chess problemist. Twice won the individual World Chess Solving Championship (1988, 1993). Five...

Walter Korn, a native of Prague, attributes the move to the Czech master, problemist and chess magazine editor Jan Kotrč, though there is no record of Kotrč...

chess problemist.[citation needed] Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition Hrvoje Bartolović was considered to be the best Croatian chess problemist, with...

moves) in the same direction in a straight line. It is the Skip-bishop of problemists (G.P. Jelliss). Alibaba ~ 2✳ AD Fairy Chess problems Combines the moves...

than the more common "White to move and checkmate Black in n moves"). Problemists have also tried to construct the shortest possible game ending in stalemate...

"Robin" Matthews (16 June 1927 – 19 June 2010) was an economist and chess problemist. Matthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy...

Rice and A. S. M. Dickins (1971) Periodicals devoted to fairy chess: The Problemist Fairy Supplement (August 1930 – June 1936) Fairy Chess Review (August...

(1904–1951), Australian rules footballer Norman Macleod (chess problemist) (1927–1991), chess problemist Norman MacLeod (Canadian businessman) (1927–2021), president...

Wróbel (1 January 1907 – 25 April 1960) was a prominent Polish chess problemist of the mid-twentieth century. Between 1947 and 1950 he was considered...

1973) Japanese actress Ado Kraemer (1898–1972), German chess master and problemist Ado Onaiwu (born 1995), Japanese footballer Aadu (name) Otto This page...

June 1910 – 11 January 2010) was a German–Argentine chess master and problemist. He was born in Berlin into a Jewish family. His father, Richard Wilhelm...

Pfeiffer (June 14, 1923 – June 27, 2000) was a German chess master and chess problemist. He tied for 5-7th at Bad Oeynhausen 1941 (8th German Chess Championship...

linguist and Iranologist Gustave Lazard (1876–1949), French chess master, problemist and organizer Justin Lazard (born 1967), actor and model Luckner Lazard...

Studies. D-H Press. 1991. Jeremy Gaige (1969). A Catalog of Chessplayers & Problemists. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine...

Gc7 Gb7 6. Ga7+ Ga6 7. Ga5+ Ga4 8. Ga3# Other related pieces in the problemist tradition are the eagle, hamster, moose, and sparrow, which move and capture...

(July 2006). "NINTH UPDATE OF CHESS PROBLEMS: TASKS AND RECORDS". The Problemist. 20 (480): 431. "Award in Jubilee Tourney" (PDF). SuperProblem. Retrieved...

Album FIDE 1983-85 Marko Klasinc (born 14 May 1951) is a Slovenian chess problemist. He composed almost 200 chess problems, mostly heterodox and retrograde...

tilings of rectangles with a complete set of pentominoes appeared in the Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement in 1935, and further tiling problems were explored...

name. It may refer to: Arno Zude (born 1964), German chess player and problemist Chen Zude (1944–2012), Chinese professional Go player Song Zude (born...

(possibly 1909), which remained active until WW2. Members included chess problemists like Hans Klüver and Willibald Roese. Raumschach achieved some limited...

however, as a chess organizer and educationalist, chess journalist and problemist. Grigoriev composed more than 300 endgame studies. He is especially noted...

 7 (Russian edition). "Dr. Samuel Gold (1835-1920): A Forgotten Chess Problemist" (PDF). p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2008. Retrieved...

General - The Philidorian 1837–1838 Six issues England General - The Problemist 1926– 6 times per year England Chess problems [39] The Week in Chess 1994–...

Clinton H. Stagg's fictional blind sleuth Thornley Colton, known as the Problemist; the work of Edgar Wallace; and Christie's own Hercule Poirot. At the...

a capture or not. Super-Andernach was introduced by John Rice in The Problemist Supplement in March 2006. Martian chess Andernach Chess by Joost de Heer...

1944), Finnish architect Jorma Paavilainen (born 1960), Finnish chess problemist Paavolainen This page lists people with the surname Paavilainen. If an...

divided by the number of composers in the case of joint compositions. For a problemist to be awarded the FIDE Master title, 12 points must be accumulated; for...

Andrey (2025). "Gatti 10th Anniversary Jubilee Tourney" (PDF). The Ural's Problemist - Selivanov.world.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) "www.arves...

is the visitor center. Throughout his life, White was an avid chess problemist. He learned the game of chess at the age of 5. "My father, the late John...

the piece the cardinal. Princess is the most widely used name among problemists. By analogy with the queen, which is a rook+bishop compound, it was decided...

this difficulty. The name empress is the most widely used name among problemists. By analogy with the queen, which is a rook+bishop compound, it was suggested...

Kaila (11 May 1916 – 3 June 1991) was a Finnish chess master and chess problemist. Born in Helsinki, he was twice Finnish Champion (1939, 1954) and thrice...

pieces in the shape of a letter or number, or even a tree. M. Kirtley, The Problemist 1986 In this problem by M. Kirtley, the final position echoes a familiar...

(1972–1977) June 15 – Hrvoje Bartolović in Zagreb, problemist July 2 – Leopold Mitrofanov in Leningrad, problemist August 11 – István Bilek in Budapest, Hungarian...

historian and former London Champion - May Tivadar Kardos, Hungarian chess problemist and author - May 15 Joan Targ, sister of Bobby Fischer - June 2 Crowther...

(possibly 1909), which remained active until WW2. Members included chess problemists like Hans Klüver and Willibald Roese. Other individuals notable for creating...

Gustave Lazard (1876 - 1948) was a French chess master, problemist and organizer. Lazard was born at Aachen, Germany on December 7, 1876. He was an elder...

and a small number of endgame studies. Milan Vukcevich 1st Prize, The Problemist, 1981 On the left is one of Vukcevich's famous problems. The key is 1...

bold counterattack on f2 and leads to wild play. Its namesake, Czech problemist Karel Traxler, played it against Reinisch in Prague in 1890. Later, Frank...

Macedonian handball player Marjan Kovačević (born 1957), Serbian chess problemist Marjan Kozina (1907–1966), Slovene composer Marjan Lazovski (born 1962)...

in Büdingen – 25 June 1972, in Berlin) was a German chess master and problemist. He tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Paul Krüger, at Bad Salzuflen 1925, took...

(born 1970), Finnish writer Marko Klasinc (born 1951), Slovenian chess problemist Marko Klok (born 1968), Dutch volleyball player Marko Kmetec (born 1976)...

Serbian descent Nenad Petrović (chess composer) (1907–89), Croatian chess problemist Nenad Petrović (writer) (1925–2014), Serbian writer Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš...

2009-10-20. Valois, Paul (July 1988). "The Founding of the BCPS". The Problemist. pp. 432–434. "Roger Paige's Chess Site- 1918". Archived from the original...

1876, Opava – 9 August 1935, Magdeburg) was a German chess master and problemist. Born in Troppau (Opava), then Austrian Silesia, as the son of an Austrian...

Russian and Soviet soccer player Alexey Troitsky (1866–1942), Russian chess problemist Artemy Troitsky (born 1955), Russian music critic, whose name was originally...

of the defensive lines of two differently moving pieces, is known to problemists as a Novotny. Various other types of interference are given specific...

(born 1971), Serbian handball player and coach Nenad Petrović (chess problemist) (born 1907–1989), Croatian chess player Nenad Petrović (writer) (1925–2014)...

Crux The Red Crayola Savage Republic Steeple Remove Throbbing Gristle Problemist Tuxedomoon Private Circus (Scott MacLeay) The Bizarros Verevis, C. (2009)...

1872, Sibiu, Romania – 31 December 1948, Timișoara) was a Romanian chess problemist. Oniţiu composed all types of problems particularly fairy chess problems...

Romanian ice hockey goaltender Valerian Onițiu (1872–1948), Romanian chess problemist Valerian Osinsky (1887–1938), Russian revolutionary Marxist Valerian Pereverzev...

(1834–1902) of Paxton, Illinois, who had a game with this opening against the problemist William Shinkman published in the Dubuque Chess Journal in 1876. Blackburne...

move attempts are not announced to the opponent. Jacques Rotenberg The Problemist 1976 Kriegspiel is sometimes used in chess problems. In these, usual variations...

Rudolfsheim bei Wien – 4 January 1957) was an Austrian chess master, problemist, journalist and author. Born in Vienna, he participated in many local...

all over the world". Gaige's 1969 book, A Catalog of Chess Players and Problemists, contained about 3000 names with dates and places of birth and death...

1964), German journalist Meindert Niemeijer [nl] (1902–1987), Dutch chess problemist Mitchell Niemeyer (born 1988), Dutch DJ and house music Producer Oscar...

Viner, 52, Australian player April 23 – Henry William Barry, 54, American problemist and problem editor of the American Chess Bulletin July 22 – Adolf Georg...

age of 13. His first and only teacher was an Austria-Hungarian chess problemist, Samuel Gold. From 1893 onwards, he played in over 50 international chess...

Dynamo chess is a chess variant invented by chess problemists Hans Klüver and Peter Kahl in 1968. The invention was inspired by the closely related variant...

In 1898, The Strand dubbed him "the prince of puzzlers". As a chess problemist, his composing style is distinguished by wit and humour. He is also known...

(politician), Irish politician Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889–1951), chess problemist Thomas C. Dawson (1865–1912), American diplomat Thomas Dawson (college...

April – Leonid Kubbel died during the siege of Leningrad. Russian chess problemist. 29 April – Anatol Tschepurnoff died in Helsinki, Finland. 5 June – István...

bombardment in Berlin, Germany. 25 June 1945 – Lazar Zalkind, Ukrainian chess problemist, died of a heart attack in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, located...

actress Francisco Benkö (1910–2010), German-Argentine chess player and problemist Pal Benko (1928–2019), Hungarian-American chess player, author, and composer...

Lavoslav Horvat, architect (born 1901) 9 November - Nenad Petrović, chess problemist (born 1907) 15 December - Vanja Sutlić, philosopher (born 1925) "Eurovision...

pocket–magnetic sets, by turning pieces upside-down instead of using checkers. The Problemist (March 1999) England. Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1987). "Alice Chess"...

of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, an excellent pianist and chess problemist, and her younger brother was Dragan Vučković (1930–1998) traffic engineer...

Hungarian-Canadian International Master - ? Ernest Pogosyants, Ukrainian chess problemist and endgame study specialist - August 16 Baldur Honlinger, prominent Austrian...

Libertas Robin Matthews (economist) (1927–2010), economist and chess problemist Robin Matthews (cricketer) (born 1944), English cricketer Robin Mathews...

bronze medal. Jarl Henning Ulrichsen is also known as a chess endgame problemist. Landsturneringen 2014 "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Jarl Henning...

was Commander-in-Chief, India Michel Caillaud (born 1957), French chess problemist This page lists people with the surname Caillaud. If an internal link...

games have been tried, and 'Berolina pawns' have long been popular with problemists. (Funkschack, August 1926)" Funkschach, 15 August 1926 Hooper & Whyld...

(1870–?), chess master Theodor Molien (1861–1941), mathematician and chess problemist Paul Felix Schmidt (1916–1984), chess master Wilhelm von Stamm (?–1905)...

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Milan Velimirović, 60, Serbian chess problemist and publisher. Marie-Claire Alain, 86, French organist. Randolph Bromery...

March 1983, Russian composer Leonid Yarosh, virtually unknown in the problemist community, composed the first complete Babson Task in a legal and economical...

with the name include: Ado Kraemer (1898–1972), German chess master and problemist Augustin Kraemer (1865–1941), German naturalist and ethnographer Bob Kraemer...

baseball player Jerzy Konikowski (born 1947), Polish-German chess player, problemist, and author This page lists people with the surname Konikowski. If an...

Lloyds Bank. The bank's chairman, Sir Jeremy Morse, was an eminent chess problemist, and its sponsorship manager, Pat Bowman, liked the concept of the bank...

Austrian chef and food critic Arno Zude (born 1964), German chess master and problemist Arno [de; fr], titular character in a comic strip by André Juillard and...

Serbian writer Nenad Petrović (chess composer) (1907–1989), Croatian chess problemist Nenad Petrović (water polo) (born 1977), Macedonian water polo player...

1983, dies at age 67. 9 September – Yoel Aloni, Israeli chess player and problemist, dies at age 90. 23 September – Harri Hurme, Finnish FIDE Master and International...

Johannes Kohtz (1843–1918) and Carl Kockelkorn (1843–1914). The elderly problemists, who composed Eine Schwalbe after a hiatus of some years, published the...

former national champion – May 27 Ado Kraemer, German chess master and problemist – June 25 Sir George Thomas, English master, twice British Champion and...

a non-capturing key, which appeared in Shakhmaty v SSSR. Many chess problemists,[who?] including Tim Krabbé, consider the problem one of the greatest...

(Koehnlein) (12 December 1879 – 5 July 1916) was a German chess master and problemist. He won at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A). He...

of the Knesset. Lazar Zalkind, a Jewish Ukrainian economist and chess problemist. Chobotarska Synagogue (17 Chobotarska Street) – Built in 1912, closed...

(1923–2001), Finnish athlete Kari Valtonen (born 1954), Finnish chess problemist Mato Valtonen (born 1955), Finnish actor and musician Mauri Valtonen (born...

the moves 1...Bc5, 2.e3 and 3.0-0, and provoked heated debate in chess problemist circles. Amid the controversy, it was overlooked that the win is not clear...

Julius Mendheim (c. 1788 – 25 August 1836) was a German chess master and problemist. Not much is known about Mendheim's life. By profession, he was probably...

the U.S. Hall was either a national and/or international champion, a problemist, an organizer/promoter, or, if a writer, was also memorable for other...

holding the title of Master Solver awarded by the Society of U S Chess Problemists. Jacobs, Konrad (1986). "Oberwolfach Photo Collection, Photo ID 4132"...

1...Rxb2, it is the bishop that is interfered with, allowing 2.Qd4#. Problemists would generally agree that a single Novotny with no other play, as in...

(Hezbollah), drone strike. Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist. Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure...

December 2011. Valois, Paul (July 1988). "The Founding of the BCPS". The Problemist. pp. 432–434. Telegram to the Penza Gubernia Executive Committee of the...

works were often published in the most prestigious publication for chess problemists, FIDE Album. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: József Pogáts". www...

original on 18 November 2010. Truscott, Alan (3 January 1974). "British Problemist Writes About 114 Game Quandaries". The New York Times. "Bridge Magic:...