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The preliminary results in section E – Helpmates (PDF) of the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 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 20.09.2021).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in sections: G-Fairies (PDF) and H-Retros and Proofgames (PDF) of the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 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 17.09.2021).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in sections: A-Twomovers (PDF),  C-Moremovers (PDF) and D-Endgame studies (PDF) of the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 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 16.09.2021).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section F – Selfmates (PDF) of the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 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 11.09.2021).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

The preliminary results in section B – Threemovers (PDF) of the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 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 30.08.2021).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

Solvers’ ratings as of July 1^st 2021 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 6 tournaments of the 2^nd quarter 2021 are included: Junior Championship of Russia 2021, 29^th Championship of Russia 2021, Central Federal District Cup for solving chess compositions 2021, Russian solving cup 2021, Open chess solving tournament of Tula, 42^nd Lithuanian Championship 2021.
The top ten remain the same solvers as in the previous quarter with Danila Pavlov (RUS) rising ahead of John Nunn (GBR) from 5^th to 4^th place as the only change of places.
The largest three gains have been achieved by Russian junior solvers Nikita Ushakov (RUS / +137.64), Egor Sokolov (RUS / +60.77), Ural Hasanov (RUS / +32.19), Ivan Novikov (RUS / +25.87), IM Danila Moiseev (RUS / +25.36) and Nikolay Zhugin (RUS / +24.71).

Dear visitors, our website wfcc.ch is getting some important upgrades. The Maintenance mode is set for some steps of the process and you might experience it from time to time for about a week.

Most of the functionality seems to work now, some visual issues as font sizes and layouts in the design of the pages and posts will be slowly fixed. Please report to webmaster@wfcc.ch if you find any broken functionality (something what worked before and doesn’t work now)! 

Thank you very much for your patience! (J.V., the webmaster)

The new look of Ratings pages will replace the pages for period 1.07.2013-01.04.2021 given on the bottom of Competitions->Solving page.
By default the new page shows the latest period, with the search option for previous lists.

The link (URL) to any rating list looks like: https://www.wfcc.ch/competitions/solving/solvers-ratings/?per=[quarter], where [quarter] is YYQN, like 21Q1 = 2021 quarter 1; 20Q4 = 2020 quarter 4; etc.
Quick links to the recent rating lists: 01.10.2020 | 01.01.2021 | 01.04.2021

Links to the old ratings pages, 1.07.2013-01.04.2021, will work up to May 14^th, 2021. If you had any references on your websites to them, please update! I apologize for possible inconvenience related to the change in URLs.

The technical part of the change was related to the further (and necessary) upgrade of the software platform (WordPress + PHP versions). Hope, you’ll like the new design! (JV, the webmaster)

Solvers’ ratings as of April 1^st 2021 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 13 tournaments of the 1^st quarter 2021 are included: Open of A. Suetin Memorial 2021, A. Suetin Memorial 2021, 17^th International Solving Contest 2021 Cat 1, 17th International Solving Contest 2021 Cat 2, Open tournament Championship of the Central Federal District of Russia 2021, Open Solving Championship of CFO 2021, 15^th Urals Problemist Cup 2021, RSSU-Cup 2021 (Alexander Pochinok Memorial Tourney), Kornilov-90 Tournament, Open of E.Bykova solving MT 2021, E.Bykova solving MT 2021, Open solving tournament Tula 2021, Open of the 35^th Ukrainian Solving Championship 2021.
The top ten remain the same solvers as in the previous quarter with Danila Pavlov (RUS) rising from 8^th to 5^th place. The largest three gains have been achieved by junior solver Egor Sokolov (RUS / +155.08), ahead of junior Nikita Ushakov (RUS / +117.43), Bogdan Zolotov (RUS / +51.35), junior women Marina Putintseva (RUS / +49.45) and junior Andrey Shkurkin (RUS / +45.62.

Composers are welcome to take part in the 9^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 !
(the Regulations are published on the page COMPOSING COMPETITIONS)

The Director of the tournament is Juri Bazlov (Russia). The sections are:

• • • •      A. Twomovers – Judge: Vasil Dyachuk (Ukraine)
      •      B. Threemovers – Judge: C.G.S. Narayanan (India)
      •      C. Moremovers – Judge: Mark Erenburg (Israel)
      •      D. Endgame studies – Judge: Oleg Pervakov (Russia)
      •      E. Helpmates – Judge:  Silvio Baier (Germany)
      •      F. Selfmates – Judge: Mikhail Khramtsevich (Belarus)
      •      G. Fairies – Judge: Tadashi Wakashima (Japan)
      •      H. Retros – Judge:  Joaquim Crusats (Spain)

The closing date for submitting the entries is July 1, 2021.