Nenad Petrovic (chess)
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Chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved. For instance, a position might be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two...
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Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition 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 Album
FIDE Album
The FIDE Albums are publications of the world chess governing body, FIDE, via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions , containing the best chess problems and studies of a certain period ....
s, 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
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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.
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Solution: 1.Qa6+! Kxa6 (1. ... Kb4 2. Qd3 Nf6+ 3. Kc6 N~ 4. Qb5#)2. Kc6 N~ 3. b4 N~ 4. b5 #