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Solvers’ ratings as of October 1^st 2022 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
Only 3 tournaments of the 3^rd quarter 2022 are included: 1^st Solving Tournament of Martynas Limontas 2022, 30^th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2022, 20^th Greek Chess Solving Championship 2022.
The ranking of the top ten solvers almost remain the same with the exception of Silvio Baier who now belongs to the non active solvers. The largest three gains have been achieved by Martynas Limontas (LTU / +43.29), ahead of junior solver Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU / +30.72) and women solver Laura Rogule (LAT / +29.07).

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 to the winners and all participants!

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 to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section D – Endgame studies (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 to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section G – Fairies (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 21.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section A – Twomovers (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in 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 07.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section B – Threemovers (PDF) and H-Retros and Proofgames (PDF) of the 10^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. This time 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 02.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section F – Selfmates (PDF) of the 10^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. This time 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 18.08.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

Solvers’ ratings as of July 1^st 2022 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
8 tournaments of the 2^nd quarter 2022 are included:
48^th Latvian Chess Solving Championship 2022, Open Solving Tournament of ECSC 2022, 15^th European Chess Solving Championship 2022, 43^rd French Chess Solving Championship 2022, 30^th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2022, 41^st Azerbaijan Chess Solving Championship 2022, 7^th Israel Open Solving Championship 2022, 44^th German Solving Championship 2022.
The only change of the ranking of the top ten solvers is that Danila Moiseev gained the 10th place by surpassing Bojan Vučković who lost 11 points in the last quarter. The largest three gains have been achieved by junior solver Emīls Tabors (LAT / +162.34), ahead of Dmitrijus Chocenka (LTU / +109.96) and Richard Dobiáš (SVK / +73.35).

Dear team leaders,

As a result of the recent WFCC sanctions to BLR/RUS for the WCCT-11, these judging countries had to be replaced.

In most sections, I made use of the appointed reserve countries;
if no reserve country had been nominated, I had to seek for a new judging country.

• Section A (twomovers): Israel instead of Russia
• Section B (threemovers): Switzerland instead of Belarus
• Section C (moremovers): Finland instead of Russia
• Section F (selfmates): North Macedonia and Slovakia instead of Belarus and Russia
• Section G (fairies): India instead of Belarus. Slovenia, the initially appointed reserve country, declined on the grounds of competence for the stipulated theme (#3, fairy pieces).

As you are aware, the judgments should reach me by 1^st of August 2022.
Warm regards, Harry Fougiaxis, Director of the WCCT-11