“One Endgame Study in a Thousand”:From a collection celebrating each year of FIDE to the composing tourney for beginners and more The collaboration between FIDE and the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) reached new heights in 2024, marked by several joint projects. Following the FIDE & WFCC World Cadet & Youth Chess Solving Championships
WCCI Entries & Statistics provided by the director, Narayan Shankar Ram, are available on the WCCI 2022-2024 Entries page. Up to the end of submission time, 20.01.2024, the up to date entries will be presented as embedded Google sheet updated by Shankar Ram. After the deadline the final table will be made in html form.
WFCC Presidium has the pleasure of presenting an important project to popularize chess composition and assure better conditions for our most important solving competitions. Upon a personal initiative of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, our UAE members, WFCC Vice-President Abdulla Ali Aal Barket, and WFCC Secretary Mohammad Alhallak, have
29th Belgian Solving Championship 2024 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:Participants: 10 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL – Belgian Champion) ahead of Dolf Wissmann (NED) with the same amount of points, but 20 minutes more time used.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2226.67 | WSC category: 9Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points (unchanged), 2. Thomas Maeder (SUI) 27 points (unchanged), 3. Marek Kolčák (SVK) 23 points (unchanged), 4. Eddy Van
The youngest players are more interested in chess composition Two weeks after the 1st FIDE & WFCC World Youth Chess Solving Championships in Brazil (U14, U16, and U18 years), we were hoping that younger categories of players (U8, U10 and U12), participants of the World Chess Championships in Italy (Montesilvano, November 14-27), will be less
The WFCC is inviting composers of all countries to participate in the 2022-24 WCCI. The tourney director is Narayan Shankar Ram (email: wccixx24@gmail.com). The competition will be held according to the General Rules as published on WFCC website. For the convenience of participants, the main rules are included in this Announcement, but the General Rules remain
Invitation to the 18th European Chess Solving Championship Τhe Greek Chess Composition Committee has the honor to invite the European national teams and individual solvers to participate in the 18th European Chess Solving Championship. The event will be held from Friday, April 25th to Sunday, April 27th in the center of Athens in Greece. VENUE:
39th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2024 | 1st tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:Participants: 24 | Winner: Roland Baier (SUI – Swiss Champion) ahead of Thomas Maeder (SUI) and Marek Kolčák (SVK).1st FM norm of Igor Yarmonov (UKR) and 1st FM norm and IM norm of Roland Ott (SUI)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2453.70 | WSC category: 4Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points, 2. Thomas Maeder (SUI) 27 points, 3. Marek Kolčák
Girls outsmarted boys in Brazil Florianópolis, the capital of southern Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, was the venue of the 1st FIDE & WFCC World Youth Chess Solving Championships in the Open and Girls categories for participants up to 14, 16 & 18 years. The solving competitions in these six categories were held in the context
An online WFCC Meeting took part via Zoom connection on 25th October 2024, organized and executed by WFCC secretary Mohammad Alhallak. Among 35 participants there were delegates or deputies of 28 countries: Argentine, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland,
