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{{short description|Croatian chess problemist (1907–1989)}}
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| name        = Nenad Petrović
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1907|9|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Zagreb]], [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1989|11|9|1907|9|7|df=y}}
| death_place = Zagreb, [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
| module           = Example chess problem by Nenad Petrović <br /> '''''[[Shakhmaty v SSSR]]'', 1959 – 2nd prize''' {{Chess diagram
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}} {{Hidden|ta1=left|fw1=normal|style=font-size: 105%|Mate in four moves|Solution: 1. Qa6+! ... <br />1... Kxa6 2. Kc6 N~ 3. b4 N~ 4. b5# <br />1... Kb4 2. Qd3 Nf6+ 3. Kc6 N~ 4. Qb5# {{chess notation|pos=egleft}}}}
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'''Nenad Petrović''' ({{Birth date|1907|9|7|df=y}} – {{Death date|1989|11|9|1907|9|7|df=y}}) was a [[Croats|Croatia]]n [[chess problem]]ist.

==Chess career==
Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian [[List of grandmasters for chess composition|Grandmaster of chess composition]]<ref>[http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc/gm.htm ''PCCC, Grandmasters of chess composition'']</ref> and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems. In 1951, he started the chess problem magazine ''Problem'' which in 1952 became the official organ of the [[Permanent Commission for Chess Composition of FIDE]] (PCCC).

Petrović was the creator of the "Codex of chess composition", the starter and editor of 13 volumes of [[FIDE Album]]s, containing the best compositions from the period 1914–1982. From 1956, he was the vice-president, and from 1958 the president of PCCC. He organized the first World Congress of Chess Composition in [[Piran]], 1958. In 1974, Petrović was made an honorary lifelong president of PCCC.

As a composer, he published some 650 problems, of which 121 were included in FIDE Albums. Many of them were records and tasks in chess composition.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp?expression=A='Petrovi%C4%87'%20and%20FIRSTNAME='Nenad' Problems by Nenad Petrović] on [[PDB Server]] 
* [http://www.problemonline.com/petrovic/en_petrovic.htm Nenad Petrović on www.problemonline.com]

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