Oleg Viktorovich Pervakov (russian: Олег Викторович Перваков, born 8 April 1960) is a

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

chess composer 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 retro ...

Biography

Pervakov published his first chess endgame study in 1997. He has composed about 130 studies, either individually or in collaboration, and has received over 90 awards, including 26 first prizes. In

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, he was awarded the title of Grandmaster for Chess Composition by

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Spor ...

. He won the

World Championship in Composing for Individuals The World Championship of Chess Composition is a triennial competition for composers of chess problems and chess study, studies. Organised in the past by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC), it is currently ...

(WCCI) in the studies section for the 2004–2006 cycle, and placed second in the 2001–2003 edition. He won again in the 2022–2024 edition, holding now the title of World Champion. Pervakov is also active as a chess journalist and is a major contributor to the Russian magazine '' 64''. He is involved in organizing tournaments and other chess-related events. In 2003, he was one of the organizers of the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition (PCCC) congress in Moscow.

External links

Studies and problems by Oleg Pervakov in the PDB server

References

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