Nenad Petrović, (September 7, 1907, in
Zagreb
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, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia-Dalmatia,
Austria-Hungary
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(now
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) – November 9, 1989, in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia,
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) was a
Croatia
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chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to ...
ist.
Chess career
Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian
Grandmaster of chess composition''PCCC, Grandmasters of chess composition''
/ref> 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 The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition. It was known as the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) from its inception in 1956 until Oct ...
(PCCC).
Petrović was the creator of the "Codex of chess composition", the starter and editor of 13 volumes of FIDE Album
The FIDE Albums are publications of the world chess governing body, FIDE, via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC), containing the best chess problems and studies of a certain period (usually three years in length).
...
s, containing the best compositions from the period 1914–82. 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
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, 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.
Example
References
External links
Problems by Nenad Petrović
on PDB Server
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Nenad Petrović on www.problemonline.com
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1907 births
1989 deaths
Chess composers
Croatian chess players
Grandmasters for chess composition
20th-century chess players