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GM Uri Avner passed away on the 10th of June, 2014, at the age of 73, after a long battle with a severe disease. For many years Uri Avner led the Israeli chess composition society, represented Israel in the WCCC and was the best Israeli composer. Uri was always involved in various sub-committees and was the President of the PCCC from 2006 to 2010 during its transition to WFCC.  He was also nominated honorary president in 2010.

WFCC expresses condolences to Israeli problemists, Uri’s family, relatives, friends.

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!

“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.

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)

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2014 are published!
Tournaments included: 24.Henk Hagedoorn Memorial, OPEN Warsaw, XII. GP Warsaw.

The three top solvers are Piotr Murdzia, Georgy Evseev and John Nunn. Congratulations!
And a Happy New Year to everybody!

The preliminary results of the 3^rd FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2013 are published!

The PDFs of the awards can be found under the Announcement, on the 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing 2013 page. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2013 are published!
Tournaments included: CZECH OPEN Pardubice, Batumi OPEN, 37.WCSC Batumi.

The three top solvers are Piotr Murdzia, Georgy Evseev and John Nunn. Congratulations!

The Agenda of WFCC 56th Meeting in Batumi, Georgia, 21-28 September 2013, is published! Some related documents in PDF are also available for download at the bottom part of the Agenda’s page.

Handbook of Chess Composition – 
6th edition, August 2013, 71 pages, size A4, pdf-file (1 Mb),
editor Hannu Harkola – 
is available!

Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2013 are published!
Tournaments included: 27.ICH of Ukraine, Sumi; 21.ICH of Slovakia, Bratislava; 34.CH of Azerbaijan, Baku; Open Vilnius; 9.ECSC Vilnius; 37.ICH of Germany, Bremen; ICH of Serbia, Beograd; 21.ICH of Russia, Obninsk; 21.ICH of Czech Republic, Praha; 7.Uralsky Problemist cup, Igalo.

The three top solvers are Piotr Murdzia, Georgy Evseev and John Nunn. Congratulations!