INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF THE FIDE
FOR CHESS COMPOSITIONS
| YEAR | NAME | COUNTRY |
| 1959 (Honoris Causa) |
André Chéron (†) Arnoldo Ellerman (†) Aleksandr Gerbstmann (†) Jan Hartong (†) Cyril S. Kipping (†) |
Switzerland Argentina USSR Netherlands Great Britain |
| 1961 | Vitaly Chekhover (†) Nils G. G. van Dijk (†) Leonid Zagoruïko (†) |
USSR Norway Russia |
| 1965 | Robin C. O. Matthews (†) | Great Britain |
| 1966 | Hans Lepuschütz (†) Alois Wotawa (†) |
Austria Austria |
| 1967 | Axel Åkerblom (†) Barry P. Barnes Adriano Chicco (†) Karl Fabel (†) Werner Speckmann (†) |
Sweden Great Britain Italy Germany Germany |
| 1969 | Tigran Gorgiev (†) Pauli Perkonoja Carel J. R. Sammelius (†) |
USSR Finland Netherlands |
| 1971 | Alois Johandl (†) Eduard Livshits Ilja Mikan (†) Vitaly Tyavlovsky |
Austria Ukraine CSFR Russia |
| 1973 | Josef Breuer (†) Pieter ten Cate (†) Gerardus Drese (†) Knud Hannemann (†) Jan Knöppel (†) Rafael Kofman (†) Aleksandr Kuznetsov (†) Lars Larsen (†) Erich Zepler (†) |
Germany Netherlands Netherlands Denmark Sweden USSR USSR Denmark Great Britain |
| 1974 | Harold Lommer (†) Stefan Schneider (†) |
Spain Austria |
| 1975 | Gerald Anderson (†) Aleksandr Kazantsev (†) Peter Kniest (†) Alexeï Kopnin (†) Gerhard Latzel (†) Meindert Niemeijer (†) Evgeny Umnov (†) |
Great Britain Russia Germany USSR Germany Netherlands USSR |
| 1976 | Walther Jørgensen (†) Michael Lipton (†) Jan Rusek (†) |
Denmark Great Britain Poland |
| 1977 | Vatslav Gebelt (†) Jan Hannelius (†) Alexander Hildebrand (†) Edgar Holladay (†) |
Belarus Finland Sweden USA |
| 1979 | Filipp Bondarenko (†) Friedrich Chlubna (†) Baldur Kozdon Aleksandr Sarychev (†) Michael Schneider (†) Vilmos Schneider (†) Leopold Szwedowski Erkki A. Wirtanen (†) |
Ukraine Austria Germany Azerbaijan Germany Hungary Poland Finland |
| 1980 | Alex Casa (†) André Fossum (†) Anatoly Kuznetsov (†) Leopold Mitrofanov (†) |
France Norway Russia Russia |
| 1984 | Velimir Kalandadze (†) József Korponai (†) László Lindner (†) Pavlos Moutecidis Avenir Popandopulo (†) Francisco Salazar (†) Sergeï Shedeï (†) |
Georgia Hungary Hungary Greece USSR Spain Ukraine |
| 1985 | Shlomo Seider (†) | Israel |
| 1988 | Krasimir Gandev (†) Leonard Katsnelson Aurel Karpati (†) Attila Korányi (†) Yosi Retter (†) Piotr Ruszczynski Ján Valuška |
Bulgaria Russia USA Hungary Israel Poland Slovakia |
| 1989 | Alfreds Dombrovskis (†) Vladimir Erokhin (†) Viktor Melnichenko (†) Vasha Neidze (†) Yury Sushkov (†) |
Latvia Russia Ukraine Georgia Russia |
| 1990 | Jean-Pierre Boyer (†) | France |
| 1992 | Yehuda Hoch Dieter Müller (†) Manne Persson (†) Narayan Shankar Ram |
Israel Germany Sweden India |
| 1993 | Fyodor Davidenko Valentin Lukyanov (†) Bernhard Schauer (†) |
Russia Ukraine Germany |
| 1995 | Pal Benko (†) Yury Gordian |
USA Ukraine |
| 1996 | Juraj Brabec Jean Haymann |
Slovakia Israel |
| 1997 | Henk Prins | Netherlands |
| 2001 | Harry Fougiaxis Vyacheslav Kopaev (†) Zdravko Maslar (†) Colin Sydenham Viktor Sizonenko |
Greece Russia Germany Great Britain Ukraine |
| 2004 | Aleksandr Kislyak Zoltán Labai Torsten Linss |
Ukraine Slovakia Germany |
| 2005 | Aleksandr Bakharev Stefan Dittrich bernd ellinghoven Václav Kotěšovec L’udovít Lačný (†) Jorge J. Lois Štefan Sovík George P. Sphicas Sergeï N. Tkachenko |
Russia Germany Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Argentina Slovakia USA Ukraine |
| 2007 | Nils Adrian Bakke Jorge M. Kapros Vitaly Kovalenko (†) Hartmut Laue Manfred Rittirsch Sergeï Smotrov Thorsten Zirkwitz (†) |
Norway Argentina Russia Germany Germany Kazakhstan Germany |
| 2008 | Gady Costeff Árpád Molnár (†) |
Israel Hungary |
| 2009 | Andreï Frolkin | Ukraine |
| 2010 | Christer Jonsson Marek Kwiatkowski Thierry le Gleuher Yury Marker Aleksandr Postnikov (†) Francesco Simoni |
Sweden Poland France Russia Ukraine Italy |
| 2011 | Michael Herzberg Leonid Makaronez Daniel Papack (renounced the title in May 2020) Andreï Vysokosov |
Germany Israel Germany Russia |
| 2012 | Pavel Arestov Wolfgang Dittmann (†) Michal Hlinka Martin Hoffmann Vladislav Nefyodov Sergeï Osintsev Yakov Rossomakho Anatoly Vasilenko Dieter Werner Menachem Witztum Sergeï Zakharov (†) Roman Zalokotsky (†) Volker Zipf |
Russia Germany Slovakia Switzerland Russia Russia Russia Ukraine Switzerland Israel Russia Ukraine Germany |
| 2013 | Iuri Akobia (†) Dmitry Baïbikov Abdelaziz Onkoud Boris Shorokhov Gerard Smits |
Georgia Israel Morocco Russia Netherlands |
| 2014 | Evgeni Bourd Arieh Grinblat (†) Christian Poisson Aleksandr Sygurov Viktor Volchek |
Israel Israel France Russia Belarus |
| 2015 | Lev Grolman (†) Eugeniusz Iwanow Diyan Kostadinov Gennady Kozyura Gerhard Maleika Christopher Reeves (†) Frank Richter Jacques Rotenberg Marian Wróbel (†, upon request by the country) |
Russia Poland Bulgaria Ukraine Germany Great Britain Germany Israel Poland |
| 2016 | Vlaicu Crișan Borislav Gadjanski Mikola Kolesnik Givi Mosiashvili Arno Tüngler Paul Farago (†, upon request by the country) Josef Halumbirek (†, upon request by the country) Ladislav Knotek (†, upon request by the country) K.A.K. Larsen (†, upon request by the country) Josef Moravec (†, upon request by the country) Ladislav Prokeš (†, upon request by the country) František Richter (†, upon request by the country) Johannes J. Rietveld (†, upon request by the country) Vitold Yakimchik (†, upon request by the country) |
Romania Serbia Ukraine Georgia Germany Hungary/Romania Austria Czech Republic Denmark Czech Republic Czech Republic Czech Republic Netherlands Russia |
| 2017 | Paz Einat Viktor Kapusta Uwe Karbowiak Valery Kirillov Grigory Popov |
Israel Ukraine Germany Russia Russia |
| 2018 | Yury Gorbatenko Vitaly Medintsev Zlatko Mihajloski |
Russia Russia Macedonia |
| 2019 | Silvio Baier Ofer Comay Nicolas Dupont Ralf Krätschmer Vasil Markovtsy Pavel Murashev |
Germany Israel France Germany Ukraine Russia |
| 2020 | Michael Barth Marco Guida Sergey Khachaturov C.G.S. Narayanan Emanuel Navon Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen Viktoras Paliulionis Aleksandr Pankratiev Vladislav Tarasyuk |
Germany Italy Russia India Israel Denmark Lithuania Russia Ukraine |
| 2021 | Mark Erenburg Mikhail Khramtsevich Olivier Schmitt |
Israel Belarus France |
| 2022 | Amatzia Avni Kostas Prentos Árpád Rusz Ivo Tominić |
Israel United States Romania Croatia |