Pierre Drumare

Pierre Drumare (born 26 October 1913) was a French chess composer.

Pierre Drumare composed problems in a variety of genres: direct (especially multiple-move problems), retrograde analysis (including selfmates), helpmates, and fairy (heterodox). He is particularly known for his long-term attempt to construct a complete Babson Task over more than twenty years, from 1960 to 1982. In 1982 he published the result of his efforts in the article Mon dernier pas vers l'impossible ("My last step toward the impossible") in the magazine Thémes-64, which he had founded a few years earlier. However, the position was illegal, and Drumare acknowledged that he had not fully achieved the task. The following year, the Russian composer Leonid Yarosh succeeded in publishing a fully legal and economical complete Babson Task.