In the book of the USSR master of sports on composition Plaksin N.M. and the candidate for master of sports of the USSR P.I. Savin, selected problems and studies of Soviet and foreign masters of chess composition are presented. The works of outstanding masters of different times, such as A. Troitsky, V. Korolkov, L. Kubbel, L. Loshinsky, S. Loyd, K. Mansfield and others are presented. Their works will help to introduce wide circles to compositional creativity and world of "chess poetry".