Endgame study composed by FIDE GM for chess composition.

Jorge Joaquim Lois (Argentina, 5.12.1946)

The renowned Argentine problem solver, Dr. Jorge Joaquín Lois, has recently (2025) achieved the required score according to the regulations of the

Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) in the specialty of chess composition (World Federation for Chess Composition),

which has designated him an International Grandmaster (GM) in this compositional specialty.

Dr. Lois is the first Argentine composer to earn this coveted title; in 1996, the same world chess governing body had awarded him the title of FIDE Master (MF) Composer,

and the title of International Master (IM) Composer in 2005.

Lois is internationally considered one of the most important problem solvers today;

the recently achieved title was obtained after earning 70 points under the very demanding rules governing chess composition.

Jorge Joaquin Lois was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 5, 1946. He studied medicine at La Plata University, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1975. He is a specialist in
Labor Medicine. Now retired, he has worked in that capacity for different institutions in his home town. He is married to Norma and they have two sons, Maximiliano and Fernando.
Jorge Lois learned the rules of chess at the age of 8, playing sporadically until 1962, when he met Jacobo Bolbochán (who won the Argentine chess championship twice, in 1931 and
1932), at the Huracán Soccer Club, where Jorge was a member and Jacobo was working as a chess teacher. Jacobo was his first chess instructor and opened the doors of the chess world to
him.
It was during 1972 that a series of helpmates appeared in La Prensa and a photo of Peña del Mate de Ayuda, the group of fairy composers (at the time helpmates were considered fairy
chess) who met every Saturday at Club Argentino de Ajedrez, was published in the then wellknown magazine Ajedrez (no longer existing). Owing to those events, Lois contacted Emiliano
F. Ruth, problemist and then President of the Peña del Mate de Ayuda. Lois joined the group because he adopted fairy chess or perhaps fairy chess adopted him.

See also about him in: Finales Y Temas 142 and Kapros, Jorge 1955-2023