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A **Chess Problem** or **Composition**, set by a [|composer], is presented to (human) solvers with a particular task to be achieved. Chess problems include the sub-genre of directmates, [|helpmates] and [|selfmates] in a pre-determined number of moves, and retrograde analysis problems. Beside chess problems in classical or orthodox chess, [|Fairy chess] offers an own branch of problem solving. Unlike problems, which often present very artificial looking positions, **Studies** or [|endgame studies] often appear that they could occur in a game, and represent a sort of puzzle, usually not requiring a solution in a fixed number of moves. Dedicated chess problem and composition software is used as composition tool, and to prove correctness and uniqueness of chess problems. [|Chess aesthetics] or beauty in chess is generally appreciated by both players and composers, awarded in certain championships also in the world of chess composition.

=Studies in CPW=  =Chess Composer= To expand this list, create a new page with the tag "[|composer]". > include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="composer" limit="100"
 * Behting Study
 * Djaja Study
 * Lasker-Reichhelm Position (Fine #70)
 * Réti Endgame Study

=See also= > Leonid's Positions
 * APwin
 * Chess Problem Solving Engines
 * Chesthetica by Azlan Iqbal
 * Endgame
 * Endgame Tablebases
 * Retrograde Analysis
 * Test-Positions
 * Zugzwang

=Selected Publications=

1960 ...

 * Vladimir E. Alekseev (**1969**). //[|Compilation of Chess Problems on a Computer]//. Technical translation FSTC-HT-23-124-69, [|US Army], NTIS AD 689470 ([|Problemy Kibernetiki], 19, 1967)

1970 ...

 * Martin Gardner (**1979**). //Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen//. Scientific American, Vol. 270
 * Donald Michie (**1979**). //The Computer Attacks Moravec Problem//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 73
 * Editor (**1979**). //Chess Ratings from Problem Solving//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 77 » CAPS II, Playing Strength

1980 ...

 * [|Walter Korn] (**1980**). //Electronic Chess: Changing Aesthetics and Mores//. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 74
 * John Roycroft (**1981**). //The Chess Endgame Study//. [|Dover Publications Inc.], [|New York]
 * László Lindner (**1982**). //How the Computer Helps the Composer//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2
 * Norman A. Macleod (**1983**). //Is the Computer Going to Take Over from the Composer?// ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2
 * László Lindner (**1983**). //Experience with the Second Human-Computer Problem Test//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3

1985 ...

 * Göran Grottling (**1985**). //Problem-Solving Ability Tested//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2
 * László Lindner (**1985**). //A Critique of Problem-Solving Ability//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
 * László Lindner (**1985**). //A Test to Compare Human and Computer Fairy-Chess Problem Solving//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
 * Paul Wiereyn (**1985**). //Problem-Solving Ability Tested II//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
 * Paul Wiereyn (**1985**). //Inventive Problem Solving//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4
 * László Lindner (**1985**). //Problem Solving: The Present and Possibilities for Development//. Advances in Computer Chess 4
 * Henk le Grand (**1986**). //The Impact of Computers on Chess-Problem composition//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3
 * Michael Schlosser (**1988**). //Computers and Chess-Problem Composition.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4
 * László Lindner (**1989**). //Performance Improvements in Problem-Solving Programs since 1984//. Advances in Computer Chess 5

1990 ...

 * László Lindner, Michael Schlosser (**1991**). //New Ideas in Problem Solving and Composing Programs//. Advances in Computer Chess 6
 * Michael Schlosser (**1991**). //Can a Computer Compose Chess Problems?// Advances in Computer Chess 6
 * Brian Gosling (**1992**). //Chess computers and endgame studies//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1
 * Jan van Reek, [|Henk van Donk] (**1992**). //History of endgame study composing in the Netherlands and Flanders//. [|ARVES]. ISBN 90-72939-12-3
 * Rainer Staudte, U. Erdmenger (**1994**). //Hilfsmattaufgaben als arithmetische Constraints// In: N.E. Fuchs, G. Gottlob: Proceedings of the Tenth Logic Programming Workshop, WLP 1994, Universität Zürich, Berichte des Institutes für Informatik, Nr. 94.10.
 * Michael Schlosser (**1994**). //Können Computer Schachprobleme komponieren?// Teil 1: [|Deutsche Schachblätter]/[|Schach-Report], 143(1994)5, S. 53-55 Teil 2: [|Deutsche Schachblätter]/[|Schach-Report], 143(1994)6, S. 57-60

1995 ...

 * Richard K. Guy, John Roycroft, [|Kenneth Solja] (**1996**). //[|Richard Guy's Chess Endgame Studies]//. Prime Actions
 * Rainer Staudte (**1997**). //Constraints for Solving Helpmates//. Advances in Computer Chess 8, [|ps]
 * M. Hirose, Hitoshi Matsubara, T. Itoh (**1997**). //The Composition of Tsume-Shogi Problems//. Advances in Computer Chess 8
 * Paul Wiereyn (**1997**). //Genius-3 Cooked Endgame Studies//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (**1999**). //Solving Problems with Uncertainty: A case study using Tsuitate-Tsume-Shogi//. Proceedings of Game Programming Workshop in Japan '99, pp. 145-152, [|Hakone], Japan, [|pdf]
 * Noam D. Elkies (**1999**). //On numbers and endgames: Combinatorial game theory in chess endgames//. [|pdf], differs only in trivial stylistic details from the (**1996**) version published in [|Games of No Chance] edited by Richard J. Nowakowski

2000 ...

 * Harold van der Heijden (**2001**). //[|Endgame Tables and Endgame Study Composition]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2
 * Noam Elkies (**2001**). //Endgame Tables and Chess Composition//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2
 * Michael Schlosser, Rainer Staudte, [|Manfred Zucker] (**2002**). //90 Jahre Schachkomposition in Chemnitz//, (German) [|pdf]

2005 ...

 * Noam Elkies (**2005**). //New directions in enumerative chess problems//. [|Electronic Journal of Combinatorics], Vol. 11, No. 2, [|arXiv:math/0508645]
 * Azlan Iqbal, Mashkuri Yaacob (**2006**). //A Systematic and Discrete View of Aesthetics in Chess//. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1-2
 * Fridel Fainshtein (**2006**). //An Orthodox k-Move Problem-Composer for Chess Directmates//. M.Sc. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, [|pdf]
 * Fridel Fainshtein, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner (**2006**). //A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, [|pdf]
 * Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Fridel Fainshtein (**2006**). //A Deep Improver of Two-move Chess Mate Problems//. [|Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 37, No. 5]
 * Gady Costeff (**2006**). //How I Became A Great Composer//. [|EG], Vol. 11, 159-163, [|ARVES], [|pdf]
 * Azlan Iqbal, Mashkuri Yaacob (**2008**). //Theme Detection and Evaluation in Chess//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2
 * Azlan Iqbal, Mashkuri Yaacob (**2008**). //Advanced Computer Recognition of Aesthetics in the Game of Chess//. WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 7, Issue 5, [|pdf]
 * Torsten Linß (**2008**). //Databases for Chess Problems//. Workshop Chess and Mathematics

2010 ...

 * Matej Guid (**2010**). //Search and Knowledge for Human and Machine Problem Solving//. Ph.D. thesis, University of Ljubljana, [|pdf]
 * Azlan Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden, Matej Guid (**2010**). //Research Grant to Investigate Multi-Dimensional Aesthetic Perception using Endgame Studies//. [|EG], [|Alexander Rueb] Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie ([|ARVES]), No. 180, Vol. XVI
 * Azlan Iqbal (**2010**). //Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations//, Part I Combinatorics and Weights, ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3
 * Azlan Iqbal (**2010**). //Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations//, Part II Normality, ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
 * 2011**
 * Azlan Iqbal (**2011**). //Increasing Efficiency and Quality in the Automatic Composition of Three-Move Mate Problems//. [|Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6972], Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-24499-5
 * Guy Haworth, Eiko Bleicher, Harold van der Heijden (**2011**). //[|Uniqueness in Chess Studies]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1
 * Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher (**2011**). //Zugzwangs in Chess Studies//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2
 * Guy McCrossan Haworth, Árpád Rusz (**2011**). //Position Criticality in Chess Endgames//. Advances in Computer Games 13, [|pdf]
 * 2012**
 * Azlan Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden, Matej Guid, Ali Makhmali (**2012**). //[|Evaluating the Aesthetics of Endgame Studies: A Computational Model of Human Aesthetic Perception]//. [|IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Vol. 4, No. 3]

=Blog & Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * [|Chess problem solving] by Timo Saari, CCC, October 04, 2001
 * [|Test Position = Study by David Przepiorka [Vorwärts, 1910]] by José Antônio Fabiano Mendes, CCC, February 05, 2004

2010 ...

 * [|Troitzky, 1930] by Jesús Muñoz, CCC, March 25, 2013
 * [|Draw by stalemate (Campbell, easy position for engines)] by Jesús Muñoz, CCC, July 31, 2013 » Stalemate
 * [|Study solved by Carlsen] by Jesús Muñoz, CCC, August 15, 2013
 * [|Helpmate-programs - and some problems for you....] by Jens Bæk Nielsen, CCC, August 26, 2013
 * [|First prize for studies in Šachová skladba 2011-12] by Jesús Muñoz, CCC, August 20, 2014

2015 ...

 * [|Wrong chess studies] by Lyudmil Antonov, CCC, February 21, 2015
 * [|Penrose Puzzle] by Erin Dame, CCC, March 14, 2017 » Penrose Puzzle
 * [|A Coup(e) of Duchamp] by Ken Regan, [|Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP], February 16, 2018
 * [|Marcel Duchamp endgame "splits" engines / hash phenomenon] by Kenneth Regan, CCC, February 19, 2018 » Marcel Duchamp, Transposition Table

=External Links=
 * [|Chess problem from Wikipedia]
 * [|WFCC | World Federation for Chess Composition]
 * [|Glossary of chess problems from Wikipedia]
 * [|World Federation for Chess Composition - Wikipedia]
 * [|World Chess Solving Championship - Wikipedia]
 * [|World Championship of Chess Composition - Wikipedia]
 * [|International Judge of Chess Compositions - Wikipedia]
 * [|Tsumeshogi from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess aesthetics from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess Problems by Computer] by François Labelle

General

 * [|Endgame study from Wikipedia]
 * [|ARVES - Home] (Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor SchaakEindspelStudie)
 * [|Chess Composition in TORUN] by Marek Kwiatkowski
 * [|Chess Endgame Study Composition] by Árpád Rusz
 * [|EG (magazine) from Wikipedia]
 * [|EG issues from ARVES]
 * [|Practical Chess Endgame + Computer Analysis] by Brian Gosling

Studies

 * [|"The Georgian peasant"] [|YouTube] Video
 * [|Saavedra position from Wikipedia]

Problem Blogs

 * [|chess-problems-gr]

Schwalbe

 * [|Schwalbe - deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach] (German)
 * [|Die Schwalbe fom Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess Problem Database Server]

Software

 * [|Software for handling chess problems from Wikipedia]
 * [|Software - WFCC]
 * [|Software for solving chess problems / puzzles / endgame studies] from Ron Murawski's [|Computer-Chess Wiki]

Penrose Puzzle
» Roger Penrose, [|Penrose institute puzzle #1 • lichess.org]
 * [|Can you solve the chess problem which holds key to human consciousness?] by [|Sarah Knapton], [|The Telegraph], March 14, 2017
 * [|Humans Can Solve This Chess Puzzle, But A Supercomputer Can't] by [|Tom Hale], [|IFLScience], March 14, 2017
 * [|Sure you're not a robot? Solve this chess puzzle and prove it] by [|Lance Ulanoff], [|Mashable], March 14, 2017
 * [|Will This Position Help Understand Human Consciousness?] by [|Peter Doggers], [|Chess.com], March 15, 2017
 * [|A chess problem holds the key to human consciousness?] by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 16, 2017
 * [|Can You Solve This Chess Puzzle That AI Software Can't?] by [|Terry Berman], [|Interesting Engineering], March 19, 2017

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