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...

A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with...

This is a list of chess endgame study composers ordered alphabetically by surname. Russian names may be written with other spellings. Yochanan Afek (born...

name by Russian chess composer Vladimir Korolkov, which has a similar thematic motif. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Loyd had...

to composers and solvers of chess problems and to correspondence chess players (by the International Correspondence Chess Federation). National chess organizations...

February 1859 – 1 February 1924) was a chess composer who in her day was the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world. She published under...

Петро́в) (February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. Petrov was born in Biserovo (now part of Opochka...

as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...

Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception...

Karel Traxler (1866 – 1936) was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems. He is best known for the hyper-aggressive variation named after him...

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...

was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is widely regarded as the best chess player of his...

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Antonín Novotný (22 August 1827 in Dobromilice – 9 March 1871) was a Czech chess composer and lawyer in Brno. The...

Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...

Jean Dufresne (14 February 1829 – 13 April 1893) was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, to whom he lost the "Evergreen...

American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City. As a chess composer...

Lars Hanssen (30 August 1903 – 1940) was a Norwegian chess player and chess composer, Norwegian Chess Championship silver medalist (1926, 1932). In the 1930s...

International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies International Honorary Masters for chess composition International Solving...

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...

as Grimshaw, Novotny, and Lacny), joke chess problems are enjoyed for some twist. In some cases the composer plays a trick to prevent a solver from succeeding...

Daniele Guglielmo Gatti (born 6 November 1987) is an Italian chess composer. He began composing chess problems in 2015, initially focusing on selfmates and then...

professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master, and chess composer. Elkies was born to an engineer father and a piano teacher...

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...

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site operates on a freemium...

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...

often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system...

Troitzky, Troitzki) was a Russian chess theoretician. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely...

Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...