List of grandmasters for chess composition
Grandmaster for chess composition is an award since 1972 titles for writers of chess problems that are in FIDE albums by a committee of experts selected an anthology and reprinted. His presentation takes place through the 1956 first as a sub-division of the World Chess Federation FIDE was founded and after their independence from the World Chess Federation in 2010 as a partner organization restructured World Federation for Chess Composition ( WFCC ).
The first title was awarded in 1959 and 1961 awarded honoris causa by the point rules below International Master of chess composition, is under the grandmaster title. In 1990, the title in turn lower FIDE Master of Chess Composition was introduced. Since 1986, the honorary title of Honorary Master is awarded.
Title in solving chess compositions are awarded according to successes in tournaments. Although the determination of the breaking strength of an Elo rating similar system is used to award the title of the rating number is independent.
- 3.1 Grand Master in solving chess compositions
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Title in the works of chess compositions are awarded based on a points system in which each appeared in a FIDE Album task the author a point and a chess study contributes 1.67 points. For multiple authors, each author will receive a task to equal a proportional score, about half the score at two authors and a third of the points with three authors.
For the title of FIDE Master, International Master and Grandmaster for chess composition, these points are used as a basis for assessment, while the title of Honorary Masters is independent.
For the title in solving chess compositions success in the official release World Championships are required.
As for the title of Grand Master and International Master participate in the release World Championship World Chess Solving Championship ( WCSC ) is assumed and successes in a certain number of consecutive tournaments, but not necessarily in direct succession, must be reached, the FIDE Master title be achieved in any official PCCC release championships. For the International Master title, it is alternatively also sufficient time to reach the score of WCSC - winner.
Title for authors of chess compositions
Grandmaster for chess composition
The Grand Master title is the highest championship title for the creator of chess compositions. Since its first allocation in 1972 the title of 66 people has been assigned. The Austrian Camillo Gamnitzer had indeed to 2009 with the formal requirements, but this was only after the World Congress of Chess Composition in which the titles are dealt, determined, and then the future titles award was confirmed.
György Paros, Jacobus Haring, Norman Macleod and Matti Myllyniemi the title was awarded posthumously, as they reached the required score until after her death.
Title for solvers of chess compositions
Grand Master in solving chess compositions
The Grand Master title for solvers of chess compositions is at high conditions, including participation in several World Championships, knotted, can claim the title for themselves by the so far only 26 people. Because of these requirements is also the number of individual victories in the World Cup, if any, specified in the respective title-holders. The individual winner is determined here only since 1983, while world championships held since 1977. The best individual results achieved in the not counted as a single World Cup events four times Pauli Perkonoja and once each Ofer Comay and the Bulgarian Kosta Angelov.