Handbook of Chess Composition
Handbook of Chess Composition – 70 pages, size A4, version 8, January 2021, pdf-file (1,6 Mb).
Editor Hannu Harkola.
The first version of this booklet with the title “Problem Chess Lists” was published in August 1989.
Contents:
Foreword
WFCC
- Meetings
- Members and delegates
- Presidents
Rules
- Statutes
- Codex
- Solver’s rating
- Criteria for acceptability of the tournaments at which ratings and norms can be gained
- Criteria for gaining norms
- Criteria for gaining titles
- Rules for rating calculation
- Rules for the WCSC and ECSC
- Rules for the International Solving Contest (ISC)
- Rules for the World Solving Cup (WSC)
- Guidelines for directors of rated solving tournaments
- Study tourney guidelines
Titles
- Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
- International Masters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
- FIDE Masters for Chess Compositions
- Honorary Masters of Chess Composition
- International Judges for Chess Compositions
- International Solving Grandmasters
- International Solving Masters
- FIDE Solving Masters
- FIDE Solving Judges
- International Titles
Competitions
- World Chess Solving Championship Tourneys
- European Chess Solving Championship Tourneys
- International Solving Contests
- The International Team-Matches for Chess-Composition and the World Chess Composition Tournaments of the FIDE
- World Solving Cup
- World Championship in Composing
FIDE-Albums