Chess composer

Chess composer is a person creating chess problems. He usually specializes in some genre, e.g. twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems. Moreover, every composer has its own preferred style of composing, allowing their sorting according to so called composition schools.

Some chess composers produce huge numbers of problems, other do try to achieve as much quality as possible and present new problems only rarely.

It is possible for chess composers to gain official FIDE titles, usually for a given number of problems published in FIDE Albums.