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WFCC Office Inaugurated in the New Fujairah CCC Palace
Opening Ceremony On 30 October 2025, a solemn opening ceremony was held to mark the inauguration of the WFCC office in the magnificent new home of the Fujairah Chess & Culture Club (FCCC). The office, located within the splendid three-storey chess palace, was officially opened by H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince […]
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Barry Peter Barnes (01-VIII-1937 14-I-2025)
Barry Peter Barnes (1937-2025) was a tireless promoter of the best in chess composition art for 70 years, since his first published problem in 1954. With his contemporaries Michael Lipton and John Rice, in the late 1950s and early 1960s he revolutionised the British two-mover, moving from the single phase fashion to modern multiphase contents. […]
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Bedrich Formánek (6.6.1933 – 19.11.2023)
Bedrich Formánek passed away on November 19, 2023, at the age of 90. A long-time the President of the Slovak Chess Composition Organization (SOKŠ) and later its Honorary President, a former President of the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition (PCCC) and then the Honorary President of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), member of […]
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International Day of Chess Composition
In 2007, our organization accepted the idea of the famous Ukrainian Grandmaster of Chess Composition Valentin Rudenko (1938-2016) to name January 4th as the International Day of Chess Composition. According to the proposal, on January 4th 1869, the Czech (Bohemian at that time) magazine “Svetozor” published an article by Antonín König (1836-1911) where he described chess composition as an […]
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Happy New Year 2023!
The year behind was crowded with official composing and solving events, thanks to the judges and organizers who worked hard in 2022. January brought 18th International Solving Contest, another successful edition run by ever passionate Axel Steinbrink. In March, the Solving Committee has made another step forward, introducing the very informative Solving Portal on our […]
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Solvers’ ratings October 1st 2022
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2022 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.Only 3 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2022 are included: 1st Solving Tournament of Martynas Limontas 2022, 30th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2022, 20th Greek Chess Solving Championship 2022.The ranking of the top ten solvers almost remain the same with the exception of […]
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10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – C
The preliminary results in section C – Moremovers (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 30.09.2022).Congratulations […]
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10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – E
The preliminary results in section E – Helpmates (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 22.09.2022).Congratulations […]