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{{Short description|Creator of endgame studies or chess problems}}

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A '''chess composer''' is a person who creates [[Endgame study|endgame studies]] or [[chess problem]]s. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular [[genre]], e.g. endgame studies, [[Chess problem#Types of problem|twomovers]], threemovers, [[Grotesque (chess)#Moremover|moremovers]], [[helpmate]]s, [[selfmate]]s, [[fairy chess|fairy problem]]s, or [[retrograde analysis]]. Moreover, composers have their own preferred style of composing, allowing their sorting according to composition schools.

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* '''Strategical school''' puts emphasis on complexity of motivation in high number of variations, both defence and harmful [[motif (chess composition)|motif]]s should be unified whenever possible, mostly in [[Chess problem#Types of problem|twomovers]] and threemovers;

* '''Soviet school''' is a highly developed level of strategic school;

* '''New-strategical school''' requires changes of variations or move functions between [[phase of play|phases]];

* '''Slovak school''' requires changes of motifs between phases.

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* [[Gijs van Breukelen]]

* [[Vladimir Bron]]<ref name=list/>

* [[André Chéron (chess player)|André Chéron]]<ref name=list/>

* Eugene Cook<ref name=list/>

* [[Thomas Rayner Dawson]]<ref name=list/>

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* [[Karl Fabel]]

* Edgar Holladay<ref name=list/>

* [[Bernhard Horwitz]]

* Henrik[[Genrikh KasparianKasparyan]]<ref name=list/>

* Cyril Kipping<ref name=list/>

* [[Josef Kling]]

* [[Leonid Kubbel]]<ref name=list/>

* [[Sam Loyd]]<ref name=list/>

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* Alain Campbell White<ref name=list/>

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[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]<ref name=list/>

[[Johannes Brahms]]<ref name=list/> He played with Robert Schumann.

[[Robert Schumann]] He played with Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms.

[[Felix Mendelssohn]] He played with Robert Schumann.

== See also ==

* [[List of grandmasters for chess composition]]

* [[List of chess endgame study composers]]

==References==