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 Union1972 Lev Loshinskij (†) Soviet Union1972 Comins Mansfield (†) 
United Kingdom1972 Eeltje Visserman (†) 
Netherlands1976 Vladimir Bron (†) Soviet Union1976 Jindrich Fritz (†) 
Czechoslovakia1976 Vladimir Korolkov (†) Soviet Union1976 Vladimir Pachman (†) Czechoslovakia1976 György Paros (†) 
Hungary1976 Nenad Petrović (†) .svg.png.webp)
Yugoslavia1980 György Bakcsi Hungary1980 Hrvoje Bartolović (†) Yugoslavia1980 Bo Lindgren (†) 
Sweden1980 Gia Nadareishvili (†) Soviet Union1980 Valentin Rudenko (†) Soviet Union1984 Claude Goumondy 
France1984 Iosif Krikheli (†) Soviet Union1984 Petko Petkov .svg.png.webp)
Bulgaria1984 Hans Peter Rehm 
West Germany1984 Touw Hian Bwee 
Indonesia1988 Cor Goldschmeding (†) Netherlands1988 Alexandr Grin-Guljaev (†) Soviet Union1988 Ernest Pogosjancz (†) Soviet Union1988 Jakov Vladimirov Soviet Union1988 Milan Vukčević (†) 
United States1989 Herbert Ahues (†) West Germany1989 Viktor Chepizhnij Soviet Union1989 Emilian Dobrescu .svg.png.webp)
Romania1990 David Gurgenidze Soviet Union1990 Jacobus Haring (†) Netherlands1992 Fadil Abdurahmanović Yugoslavia1992 Jan Rusinek 
Poland1993 Venelin Alaikov (†) 
Bulgaria1993 Michel Caillaud France1993 Andrej Lobusov (†) 
Russia1993 Norman Macleod (†) United Kingdom1993 Byron Zappas (†) 
Greece1995 Michael Keller Germany1995 Alexandr Kuzovkov 
Moldova1996 Toma Garai (†) United States1996 Živko Janevski 
North Macedonia2001 Virgil Nestorescu 
Romania2004 Unto Heinonen 
Finland2004 Jean-Marc Loustau France2004 Mikhail Marandyuk 
Ukraine2004 Waldemar Tura Poland2005 Udo Degener Germany2005 Nikolai Kralin Russia2005 Franz Pachl Germany2005 Oleg Pervakov Russia2007 Alexandr Feoktistov Russia2007 Yves Cheylan France2007 Marjan Kovačević 
Serbia2007 Miodrag Mladenović Serbia2007 Valery Shanshin Russia2007 Valery Shavyrin Russia2007 Anatoly Slesarenko Russia2009 Uri Avner (†) 
Israel2009 Andrey Selivanov Russia2010 Reto Aschwanden .svg.png.webp)
Switzerland2010 Wieland Bruch Germany2010 Vasyl Dyachuk Ukraine2010 Camillo Gamnitzer 
Austria2010 Matti Myllyniemi (†) Finland2010 Marcel Tribowski Germany2010 Milan Velimirović (†) Serbia2010 Klaus Wenda Austria2012 Evgeny Bogdanov (†) Ukraine2012 Michal Dragoun Czech Republic2012 Valery Gurov Russia2012 Peter Gvozdjak 
Slovakia2012 Miroslav Havel (†) Czech Republic2012 Christopher Jones United Kingdom2012 Artur Mandler (†) Czech Republic2012 Mario Parrinello 
Italy2012 Ivan Soroka Ukraine2013 Alexandr Azhusin Russia2013 Anatoly Styopochkin Russia2015 Yochanan Afek Israel2015 Hubert Gockel Germany2015 John Rice United Kingdom2015 Aleksey Sochnev Russia2017 Richard Becker United States2023 Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen 
Denmark
International Honorary Masters for chess composition
Year Name Country 1986 Antonio Arguelles (†) 
Spain1986 John Niemann (†) West Germany1986 Antonio Piatesi (†) Italy1987 Hans Klüver (†) West Germany1987 Grzegorz Grzeban (†) Poland1988 Alexander Pituk (†) Czechoslovakia1988 Janos Kiss (†) Hungary1988 Ferenc Fleck (†) Hungary1989 Gino Mentasti (†) Italy1991 Albert Koldijk (†) Netherlands1991 Jean Zeller (†) France1992 Colin Vaughan (†) United Kingdom1994 Kurt Smulders (†) .svg.png.webp)
Belgium1998 Eliahu Fasher (†) Israel1999 Giorgio Mirri (†) Italy1999 Savo Zlatić (†) 
Croatia2000 Rui Nascimento (†) 
Portugal2006 Jeremy Morse (†) United Kingdom2007 Sonomun Chimedtseren (†) 
Mongolia2007 Odette Vollenweider Switzerland2012 Hermann Weissauer (†) Germany2015 Hannu Harkola Finland
International Solving Grandmasters
Year Name Country 1982 Pauli Perkonoja Finland1984 Kari Valtonen Finland1984 Milan Velimirović (†) Yugoslavia1985 Ofer Comay Israel1988 Roland Baier Switzerland1988 Marjan Kovačević Yugoslavia1988 Arno Zude West Germany1991 Georgy Evseev Soviet Union1993 Michael Pfannkuche Germany1997 Jonathan Mestel United Kingdom1997 Sergej Rumyantsev Russia1998 Ram Soffer Israel1999 Jorma Paavilainen Finland2000 Boris Tummes Germany2001 Noam Elkies United States2002 Michel Caillaud France2002 Graham Lee United Kingdom2002 Piotr Murdzia Poland2004 John Nunn United Kingdom 2004 Dolf Wissmann Netherlands2007 Alexandr Azhusin Russia2008 Miodrag Mladenović Serbia2008 Andrey Selivanov Russia2008 Bojan Vučković Serbia2009 Eddy van Beers Belgium2009 Vladimir Podinić Serbia2010 Michal Dragoun Czech Republic2011 Kacper Piorun Poland2011 Ladislav Salai Jr. Slovakia2014 Martynas Limontas 
Lithuania2014 Anatoly Mukoseev Russia2015 Oleksy Solovchuk Ukraine2017 Marko Filipović Croatia
See also
- List of chess grandmasters
- FIDE Album It explains the scoring required to become a master in composition.
References
External links
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