Nenad Petrović (chess composer)

Nenad Petrović ((1907-09-07)7 September 1907 – (1989-11-09)9 November 1989) was a Croatian chess problemist.

Nenad Petrović
Born	(1907-09-07)7 September 1907 Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Died	9 November 1989(1989-11-09) (aged 82) Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
Example chess problem by Nenad Petrović Shakhmaty v SSSR, 1959 – 2nd prize a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h Mate in four moves Solution: 1. Qa6+! ... 1... Kxa6 2. Kc6 N~ 3. b4 N~ 4. b5# 1... Kb4 2. Qd3 Nf6+ 3. Kc6 N~ 4. Qb5#

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.