We are very glad that the judging panel and the director of the 2010-12 Album Moremovers section concluded their work in a record time of 11 months. Many thanks to them for the precious time and great effort they have spent!
See FIDE ALBUM 2010-2012 – Results in section C – Moremovers published!
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Solvers’ ratings April 1st 2014
Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2014 are published!
Tournaments included: 1. Greek solving cup; 10. ISC; 6.WC Moscow; ICH of Great Britain Eton. The three top solvers are the same, but Georgy Evseev is on the first place this time: Georgy Evseev, Piotr Murdzia and John Nunn!
Invitation to Berne: 57th WCCC & 38th WCSC
The Schweizerische Vereinigung der Kunstschachfreunde and the Organizing Committee “OK WCCC 2014”, has the honor to invite all delegates of the WFCC, national teams, individual chess solvers and composers and all those interested in problem chess, to attend the
57th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and
38th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC)
10th International Solving Contest: Results
Final results for the 10th International Solving Contest are published!
36 tournaments in 30 countries, 488 solvers from 34 countries.
Category 1 (290 solvers): 1) Piotr Murdzia (POL), 2)-3) Marko Filipovic (CRO), 2)-3) Kacper Piorun (POL)
Category 2 (198 solvers): 1) Jeyhun Huseynzada (AZE), 2) Arie Kozer (ISR), 3) Chris Maes (BEL)
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2
9th WCCT: Supplementary Results (update)
(02.03.2014) The uploaded file – The Supplementary Results of the 9th World Chess Composition Tournament 2012-13 – has been updated once more: the diagram of F42 (45th-50th Place) was not the correct one. (H.F.)
10th European Chess Solving Championship
The Corporation for Sportive Tourism in Montenegro and the Montenegro Chess Federation have the pleasure to invite all chess solvers and chess composition friends to attend the 10th European Chess Solving Championship in Igalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
The director of the championship and of the open tournament will be Ryszard Królikowski (FIDE Solving Judge).
Study of the Year 2012
“The Study of the Year“ award is organized by the WFCC and aims at introducing to the general public a single friendly endgame study that would hopefully appeal to chess players of various levels and encourage them to pay a deeper attention to the art of the endgame study on a more regular basis.
An international panel of world famous experts (David Gurgenidze, Oleg Pervakov, Gady Costeff, Ilham Aliev and Harold van der Heijden) examined the candidates and announced The Study of the Year 2012 at the end of 2013.
9th WCCT: Supplementary Results
Harry Fougiaxis, Director of the 9th WCCT, presents The Supplementary Results of the 9th World Chess Composition Tournament 2012-13: Compositions ranked lower than the 20th place.
This is the document containing the compositions that were ranked lower than the 20th place in the 9th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC. They are displayed in diagrams with full solutions and any comments sent in by the countries.
(18.02.2014) A correction is added to the document uploaded as “The diagram and solution of G56 were an unfortunate copy-paste mistake of G13.” (H.F.)
WCCC 2013 Minutes of Batumi meeting / Solving weekend 2014
Minutes of WCCC2013 Batumi meeting (pdf 192 kb) and Annex with Financial report 2013 (pdf 194 kb) are added to the Meetings/Batumi section!
Note: Soon after the distribution of the minutes to the delegates, we received the happy news that the ARVES Study Solving Day and the ISC in the Netherlands will be held on Saturday-Sunday, January 25th-26th 2014 in Wijk aan Zee. Further details are on the page http://www.afekchess.com/
Composers’ names in various alphabets
The project Chess composers’ names in various alphabets has a new location and much more modern implementation! The Links section is updated accordingly.
“What is this database about? This database’s purpose is to help you writing chess composers’ names. The question is especially interesting if the original writing uses a less common alphabet.” (Implemented with a great international collaboration)