INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF THE FIDE
FOR CHESS COMPOSITIONS
| YEAR | NAME | COUNTRY |
| 1959 (Honoris Causa) |
André Chéron (†) Arnoldo Ellerman (†) Aleksandr Gerbstmann (†) Jan Hartong (†) Cyril S. Kipping (†) |
Switzerland Argentina USSR Netherlands Great Britain |
| 1961 | Vitaly Chekhover (†) Nils G. G. van Dijk (†) Leonid Zagoruïko (†) |
USSR Norway Russia |
| 1965 | Robin C. O. Matthews (†) | Great Britain |
| 1966 | Hans Lepuschütz (†) Alois Wotawa (†) |
Austria Austria |
| 1967 | Axel Åkerblom (†) Barry P. Barnes Adriano Chicco (†) Karl Fabel (†) Werner Speckmann (†) |
Sweden Great Britain Italy Germany Germany |
| 1969 | Tigran Gorgiev (†) Pauli Perkonoja Carel J. R. Sammelius (†) |
USSR Finland Netherlands |
| 1971 | Alois Johandl (†) Eduard Livshits Ilja Mikan (†) Vitaly Tyavlovsky |
Austria Ukraine CSFR Russia |
| 1973 | Josef Breuer (†) Gerardus Drese (†) Knud Hannemann (†) Jan Knöppel (†) Rafael Kofman (†) Aleksandr Kuznetsov (†) Lars Larsen (†) Pieter ten Cate (†) Erich Zepler (†) |
Germany Netherlands Denmark Sweden USSR USSR Denmark Netherlands Great Britain |
| 1974 | Harold Lommer (†) Stefan Schneider (†) |
Spain Austria |
| 1975 | Gerald Anderson (†) Aleksandr Kazantsev (†) Peter Kniest (†) Alexeï Kopnin (†) Gerhard Latzel (†) Meindert Niemeijer (†) Evgeny Umnov (†) |
Great Britain Russia Germany USSR Germany Netherlands USSR |
| 1976 | Walther Jørgensen (†) Michael Lipton (†) Jan Rusek (†) |
Denmark Great Britain Poland |
| 1977 | Vatslav Gebelt (†) Jan Hannelius (†) Alexander Hildebrand (†) Edgar Holladay (†) |
Belarus Finland Sweden USA |
| 1979 | Filipp Bondarenko (†) Friedrich Chlubna (†) Baldur Kozdon Aleksandr Sarychev (†) Michael Schneider (†) Vilmos Schneider (†) Leopold Szwedowski (†) Erkki A. Wirtanen (†) |
Ukraine Austria Germany Azerbaijan Germany Hungary Poland Finland |
| 1980 | Alex Casa (†) André Fossum (†) Anatoly Kuznetsov (†) Leopold Mitrofanov (†) |
France Norway Russia Russia |
| 1984 | Velimir Kalandadze (†) József Korponai (†) László Lindner (†) Pavlos Moutecidis Avenir Popandopulo (†) Francisco Salazar (†) Sergeï Shedeï (†) |
Georgia Hungary Hungary Greece USSR Spain Ukraine |
| 1985 | Shlomo Seider (†) | Israel |
| 1988 | Krasimir Gandev (†) Aurel Karpati (†) Leonard Katsnelson Attila Korányi (†) Yosi Retter (†) Piotr Ruszczynski Ján Valuška |
Bulgaria USA Russia Hungary Israel Poland Slovakia |
| 1989 | Alfreds Dombrovskis (†) Vladimir Erokhin (†) Viktor Melnichenko (†) Vasha Neidze (†) Yury Sushkov (†) |
Latvia Russia Ukraine Georgia Russia |
| 1990 | Jean-Pierre Boyer (†) | France |
| 1992 | Yehuda Hoch Dieter Müller (†) Manne Persson (†) Narayan Shankar Ram |
Israel Germany Sweden India |
| 1993 | Fyodor Davidenko Valentin Lukyanov (†) Bernhard Schauer (†) |
Russia Ukraine Germany |
| 1995 | Pál Benkö (†) Yury Gordian (†) |
USA Ukraine |
| 1996 | Juraj Brabec Jean Haymann |
Slovakia Israel |
| 1997 | Henk Prins | Netherlands |
| 2001 | Harry Fougiaxis Vyacheslav Kopaev (†) Zdravko Maslar (†) Viktor Sizonenko Colin Sydenham (†) |
Greece Russia Germany Ukraine Great Britain |
| 2004 | Aleksandr Kislyak Zoltán Labai Torsten Linss |
Ukraine Slovakia Germany |
| 2005 | Aleksandr Bakharev Stefan Dittrich bernd ellinghoven (†) L’udovít Lačný (†) Jorge J. Lois Štefan Sovík George P. Sphicas Sergeï N. Tkachenko |
Russia Germany Germany Slovakia Argentina Slovakia USA Ukraine |
| 2007 | Nils Adrian Bakke Jorge M. Kapros (†) Vitaly Kovalenko (†) Hartmut Laue Sergeï Smotrov Thorsten Zirkwitz (†) |
Norway Argentina Russia Germany Kazakhstan Germany |
| 2008 | Gady Costeff Árpád Molnár (†) |
Israel Hungary |
| 2009 | Andreï Frolkin | Ukraine |
| 2010 | Christer Jonsson Marek Kwiatkowski Thierry le Gleuher Yury Marker Aleksandr Postnikov (†) Francesco Simoni |
Sweden Poland France Russia Ukraine Italy |
| 2011 | Michael Herzberg Leonid Makaronez Daniel Papack (renounced the title in May 2020) Andreï Vysokosov |
Germany Israel Germany Russia |
| 2012 | Pavel Arestov Wolfgang Dittmann (†) Michal Hlinka Martin Hoffmann Vladislav Nefyodov Sergeï Osintsev Yakov Rossomakho (†) Anatoly Vasilenko Dieter Werner Menachem Witztum Sergeï Zakharov (†) Roman Zalokotsky (†) Volker Zipf |
Russia Germany Slovakia Switzerland Russia Russia Russia Ukraine Switzerland Israel Russia Ukraine Germany |
| 2013 | Iuri Akobia (†) Dmitry Baïbikov Boris Shorokhov Gerard Smits |
Georgia Israel Russia Netherlands |
| 2014 | Evgeni Bourd Arieh Grinblat (†) Christian Poisson Aleksandr Sygurov Viktor Volchek |
Israel Israel France Russia Belarus |
| 2015 | Lev Grolman (†) Eugeniusz Iwanow (†) Diyan Kostadinov Gerhard Maleika Christopher Reeves (†) Frank Richter Jacques Rotenberg Marian Wróbel (†, upon request by the country) |
Russia Poland Bulgaria Germany Great Britain Germany Israel Poland |
| 2016 | Vlaicu Crișan Borislav Gadjanski Givi Mosiashvili Arno Tüngler Paul Farago (†, upon request by the country) Josef Halumbirek (†, upon request by the country) Ladislav Knotek (†, upon request by the country) K.A.K. Larsen (†, upon request by the country) Josef Moravec (†, upon request by the country) Ladislav Prokeš (†, upon request by the country) František Richter (†, upon request by the country) Johannes J. Rietveld (†, upon request by the country) Vitold Yakimchik (†, upon request by the country) |
Romania Serbia Georgia Germany Hungary/Romania Austria Czech Republic Denmark Czech Republic Czech Republic Czech Republic Netherlands Russia |
| 2017 | Paz Einat Viktor Kapusta Uwe Karbowiak Valery Kirillov Grigory Popov |
Israel Ukraine Germany Russia Russia |
| 2018 | Yury Gorbatenko Vitaly Medintsev Zlatko Mihajloski |
Russia Russia Macedonia |
| 2019 | Silvio Baier Ofer Comay Nicolas Dupont Ralf Krätschmer Vasil Markovtsy |
Germany Israel France Germany Ukraine |
| 2020 | Michael Barth Marco Guida Sergey Khachaturov C.G.S. Narayanan Emanuel Navon Viktoras Paliulionis Aleksandr Pankratiev Vladislav Tarasyuk |
Germany Italy Russia India Israel Lithuania Russia Ukraine |
| 2021 | Mark Erenburg Mikhail Khramtsevich Olivier Schmitt |
Israel Belarus France |
| 2022 | Amatzia Avni Kostas Prentos Árpád Rusz Ivo Tominić |
Israel United States Romania Croatia |
| 2023 | Eric Huber Anatoly Skripnik Mihailo Stojnić Karen Sumbatyan Dmitry Turevsky Igor Yarmonov |
Romania Russia Serbia Russia Russia Ukraine |