Pauli Perkonoja (born July 19, 1941) is a Finnish chess problemist.

Biography

Perkonoja was born in a suburb of Tampere, but after a few years moved to

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

, where he has lived all his life. He worked in the Finnish postal service. In his free time he is devoted

crossword A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the ans ...

and chess study. Perkonoja is known as the chess problemist. He was one of Finland's chess problem magazine ''Tehtäväniekka'' authors. In 1969 Perkonoja gained the title of International Master of the FIDE for Chess compositions. In 1982 he became the first chess player in the world, which has received the title of International Solving Grandmaster. Three times Perkonoja won the individual

World Chess Solving Championship The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of ...

: 1986, 1992 and 1995.19. WCSC TURKU 25.-26.7.1995
/ref> In 2005 in Legnica he won the first European Chess Solving Championship.

References

External links

* player profile at jmrw.com * Problems at the PDB-Server {{DEFAULTSORT:Perkonoja, Pauli 1941 births Living people Finnish chess players Chess composers International solving grandmasters