45th Meeting of the Permanent Commission 
of the FIDE for Chess Compositions 
in Portoroz (Slovenia)
August 31st – September 7th, 2002

29 member countries were present.

President Bedrich Formánek (Slovakia),
secretary Günter Büsing (Germany).

New Presidium:

• President John Rice (Great
  Britain)
• 1st Vice-President Hannu Harkola (Finland)
• 2nd Vice-President Uri Avner (Israel)
• 3rd Vice-President Kjell Widlert (Sweden)
• Secretary Paul Valois (Great Britain)

 

The World Champions in Composing 1998-2000 are

• 2-movers: Viktor Chepizny, Russia
• 3-movers: Mikhail Marandjuk, Ukraine
• moremovers: Mikhail Marandjuk, Ukraine
• studies: David Gurgenidge, Georgia
• helpmate: Zivko Janevski, Macedonia
• selfmates: Petko Petkov, Bulgaria
• fairies: Petko Petkov, Bulgaria
• retro problems: Alexandr Kisljak, Ukraine

 

Many sections for the FIDE-Album 1995-97 are
ready and the results can be seen on this site.
Until now only studies (new) and retros are available.

New titles:

• International Solving Grandmaster: Michel
  Caillaud (France), Graham Lee (Great Britain), Piotr Murdzia (Poland)
• International Solving Master: Eddy van Beers
  (Belgium), Peter van den Heuvel (Netherlands), Herbert Lang (Germany), Markus
  Ott (Switzerland), Ladislav Salai jr (Slovakia), Henry Tanner (Finland)
• FIDE Solving Master: Emil Klemanic (Slovakia),
  Thomas Maeder (Switzerland), Bogusz Piliczewski (Poland), Zbigniew Szczep
  (Poland)
• International Judge: Zoran Gavrilovski (Macedonia)
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Next meeting : July 26th – August 2nd, 2003
Moscow, Russia, hotel Ukraine