Jorma Paavilainen (born April 5, 1960) is a Finnish

chess problemist A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrograde ...

Biography

Twice (1983, 1985) played for Finland in World Youth U26 Team Chess Championships. In 1985 played for Finland second team in the Nordic Cup in chess. In later years regular played for

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town team in Finnish Chess Championship I league. He is a

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(FM). Paavilainen become best known as the chess problemist and chess problems solver. He is many times Finnish Chess Solving Championship winner: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. In 1999 Paavilainen gained the title of

International Solving Grandmaster This article lists: * International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies * International Honorary Masters for chess composition * International Solving Grandmasters Such awards were formerly managed by FIDE throu ...

. In 2001 in

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he won the individual

World Chess Solving Championship The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of ...

.25th World Chess Solving Championship Wageningen 31.7.-1.8.2001
/ref> In 2003 Paavilainen won silver medal in

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Open Chess Solving Championship. In 2006 he won silver medal in World Chess Solving Championship. Paavilainen is Finnish chess problem magazine ''Tehtäväniekka'' editor.

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