Nenad Petrović (chess composer) explained

Nenad Petrović
Birth Date:7 September 1907
Birth Place:Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
Module:Example chess problem by Nenad Petrović
Shakhmaty v SSSR, 1959 – 2nd prize

Nenad Petrović (7 September 1907 –) was a Croatian chess problemist.

Chess career

Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition[1] and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems. In 1951, he started the chess problem magazine Problem which in 1952 became the official organ of the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition of FIDE (PCCC).

Petrović was the creator of the "Codex of chess composition", the starter and editor of 13 volumes of FIDE Albums, containing the best compositions from the period 1914–1982. From 1956, he was the vice-president, and from 1958 the president of PCCC. He organized the first World Congress of Chess Composition in Piran, 1958. In 1974, Petrović was made an honorary lifelong president of PCCC.

As a composer, he published some 650 problems, of which 121 were included in FIDE Albums. Many of them were records and tasks in chess composition.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc/gm.htm PCCC, Grandmasters of chess composition