Nenad Petrović ( – ) was a

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Chess career

Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition''PCCC, Grandmasters of chess composition''
/ref> and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems. In 1951, he started the chess problem magazine ''Problem'' which in 1952 became the official organ of the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition of FIDE (PCCC). Petrović was the creator of the "Codex of chess composition", the starter and editor of 13 volumes of

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s, containing the best compositions from the period 1914–1982. From 1956, he was the vice-president, and from 1958 the president of PCCC. He organized the first World Congress of Chess Composition in

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, 1958. In 1974, Petrović was made an honorary lifelong president of PCCC. As a composer, he published some 650 problems, of which 121 were included in FIDE Albums. Many of them were records and tasks in chess composition.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrovic, Nenad 1907 births 1989 deaths Chess composers Croatian chess players Grandmasters for chess composition 20th-century chess players