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Luc Palmans has built a database with problems of national and international chess solving tournaments since 1977 and will periodically update the database. The update as of 1^st January, 2017 can be found here.

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1^st 2017 are published! 8 tournaments included: 1^st Solving Cup Byron Zappas; 9^th Albino Cup Minsk; 25^th Kedainiai Cup; 29^th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial; ICH of Belgium Geel; 15^th Grand Prix Warsaw Open; 15^th ICH of Greece Athens; 15^th Grand Prix Warsaw. Three top solvers are: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.

Happy Chess Composition Day!

Ten years ago (WCCC Rhodes, 2007) our organization (PCCC at that time) established the International Day of Chess Composition. According to the proposal by the Grandmaster Valentin Rudenko (1938-2016), today we celebrate an important date in the history of chess composition. On January 4th 1869, the Czech (Bohemian at that time) magazine “Svetozor” published an article by Antonín König (1836-1911), a painter and the founder of the Bohemian school in chess composition. This article is known as one of the earliest sources considering chess composition as an independent form of Art.

As of 2016 also all tournaments which are included in the rating list but are not provided by the WFCC and are not part of the World Solving Cup will be published with results, problems and solutions. With this new web page transparency of these rated tournaments can be improved and interested solvers get the opportunity to do additional training if they can’t attend these tournaments.
See Competitions→Solving→Other rated solving tournaments: 2016 Calendar.

Solvers’ ratings as of October 1^st 2016 are published! 6 tournaments included: OPEN Klaipeda; 24^th ICH of Czechia Pardubice; 1^st Azerbaijan Chess Solving Cup; OPEN Beograd; 41^st WCSC Beograd; ICH of Switzerland Bern. Three top solvers are: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organising the 5^th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2017 in eight sections.

The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide.

The new version of the Handbook of Chess Composition, 7^th edition, 67 pages, has been released by Hannu Harkola in July, 2016.  The first version of this booklet with the title “Problem Chess Lists” was published in August 1989.

Solvers’ ratings as of July 1^st 2016 are published! 12 tournaments included: Memorial Branko Atanacković; 40^th ICH of Germany Dresden; 37^th ICH of Azerbaijan Baku; OPEN Athens; 12^th ECSC Athens; OPEN Cherkassy; 30^th ICH of Ukraine Cherkassy; 37^th ICH of Lithuania Klaipeda; 24^th ICH of Russia Sochi; 3^rd Open Israeli Solving Championship; 10^th UP cup Igalo; Montenegro GP Igalo. Three top solvers are: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.

FINAL Award of Baku Chess Olympic Ty 2016 is published and available from the page FIDE Olympic Tournament in composing 2016.

The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide.

Provisional moremovers award of Baku Chess Olympic Ty 2016, judge: Oto Mihalčo (Slovakia), is published and available from the page FIDE Olympic Tournament in composing 2016.

The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide.