A person who creates such problems is known as a chess composer.

Today, many chess composers do work in the area of multiple schools regularly.

His activity as a chess composer began in 1975 when he published his first study.

He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.

As a chess composer he pursued the style of Bohemian school.

As a chess composer, he published about 100 original chess problems.

As a chess composer, he authored a number of chess problems, often with interesting themes.

Chess composer Max Bezzel published the eight queens puzzle in 1848.

Emilian Dobrescu is also a strong chess composer.

Duras was also a noted chess composer.

His son, Herbert Ahues, is a famous chess composer.

Some chess composers produce huge numbers of chess compositions, while others try to achieve as much quality as possible and present new works only rarely.

Jan Rusinek (born December 2, 1950) is a Polish mathematician and chess composer, particularly noted for his brilliant endgame studies.

In December 2009, ChessBase published three of Nadanian's puzzles on "knights theme", calling him "a hippophile chess composer".

Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, or fairy problems.

In the August 2003 issue of the German problem magazine 'Die Schwalbe', the problem to the right, a mate in four by Peter Hoffmann (chess composer) appeared.

It is possible for chess composers to gain official FIDE titles, usually for a given number of problems published in FIDE Albums.

Composition school in chess composition is a particular style of creating chess problems, putting emphasis on different aspects of the problem contents and attracting interest of important number of chess composers.

Also his brothers Ardid and Evgeny were chess players, Ardid being a strong master (he played in the first four USSR championships) and Evgeny a chess composer.