Drafts composer

Drafts composer (in English literature - problemist ) - the author of drafts compositions .

Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov , author of the first drafts book in Russia, A Guide to a thorough knowledge of the drafts game (1827), is naturally considered the first checker composer in Russia. In chapter XI "Tricks of the game of drafts (twelve examples)" he was the first in Russia to show drafts compositions.

The first drafts composers explored the endgame (normal endings), making a great contribution to the theory of the game. Among them, for example, Sargin, Davyd Ivanovich . In the 1960s, Yuri Petrovich Barsky made a great contribution to the study of normal endings in international drafts.

In the 19th century in the Russian Empire, such a direction of composition as the checker problem , which did not receive external development, developed.

The development of the checker-chess movement in the USSR in the 1920s and 30s put forward a lot of draftsmen; some of them became recognized drafts composers. Among them, Vasily Aleksandrovich Sokov , Igor Vladimirovich Timkovsky and others stand out particularly.

With the formation of a drafts composition as a sport, combining the successful career of a composer and a player in checkers has become more difficult; purely checkered composers appeared, not professionally associated with the game.

Drafts composers have an official sports qualification, the highest point of which is the title of international grandmaster , national grandmaster .