The 63rd World Congress of Chess Composition was closed on October, 22nd. Some more details about the events will be added to the related posts, including results and galleries.
The page of the 63rd WCCC is updated with WFCC Agenda and
Bulletin 63rd WCCC and 44th WCSC (PDF, 132 pages, v.1.1 – 31.10.2021).
The 5th YCCC with 50 participants from 12 countries has doubled the results of the record breaking 4th YCCC. 12 judges were involved in the process of the evaluation. The winners of all three sections were announced on the final banquet of the 63rd WCCC:
Section A – twomovers (Judge David Shire): 1. Ural Khasanov (Russia),
2. Ilija Serafimović (Serbia), 3. Hajime Tachioka (Japan)
Section B – endgames (Judge Steffen Nielsen): 1. Alexey Popov (Russia),
2. Ilija Serafimović (Serbia), 3. Andrii Sergiienko (Ukraine)
Section C – free theme / genre (The panel of 10 judges):
1. Toshimasa Fujiwara (Japan), 2. Benjamin Defromont (France), 3. Itay Richardson (Israel)
The full booklet presenting the gallery of participants and 3 awards:
Introduction | Award Section A | Award Section B | Award Section C
(available also in the section COMPETITIONS/COMPOSING -> YCCC)
The Youth Committee congratulates all participants and thanks the judges for their wonderful work!
(21.10) 44. WCSC FINAL RESULTS: Individuals | Teams | Norms | Problems | Solutions
(20.10) 44. WCSC 2nd day:
Preliminary Final Individual results | Preliminary Final Team results
Individual interim results | Team interim results (after 5 rounds)
Individual interim results | Team interim results (after 4 rounds)
(19.10) 44. WCSC 1st day – Individual interim results | Team interim results (after 3 rounds)
(19.10) Final results of the Open (with corrected rating) | Norms | Problems | Solutions
(18.10) Lectures: Thomas Maeder, Hannu Harkola, Steffen Nielsen
(18.10) Open Solving Tournament. Preliminary results with the top results: Eddy Van Beers (BEL), Ural Khasanov (RUS, j), Piotr Murdzia (POL)
(17.10) WFCC Opening Session ; Quick composing
The MEETINGS section is updated with the Minutes of all 62(!) meetings provided by Hannu Harkola: “I have prepared a collection of all PCCC/WFCC minutes from the first congresses until Ohrid 2018. I thought that they are interesting and it is also important to save the history and have it available for everyone.
Dr. Klaus Wenda was very helpful by scanning the missing last documents.”
REMINDER: The Greek Chess Problem Society have the honour to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), national teams and individual solvers, chess composers and all those interested in problem chess, to attend the 63rd World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 44th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC).
The congress will be held from Saturday, October 16th (arrival)to Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 (departure) at the “Rodos Palace Hotel” ***** in the island of Rhodes, with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19th and 20th.
The official website shows the first announcements and current List of Participants.
Please send your registration by September 30th 2021 (new date!) to wccc2021gr@gmail.com
Download invitation as PDF | Official website
After a break of one year, another edition of the YCCC is on the way.
This year, 5th YCCC is open to the U23 generation (born no earlier than 01.01.1998), and to all different genres of chess composition.
All young chess composers, and those who would like to try their hands in this kind of chess art, are invited to take part in three different sections (two of them with the set thematic conditions)!
The deadline for submission of the entries is 30th September.
The results are planned to be announced on 22th October 2021, during the Closing ceremony of the Rhodes WCCC 2021.
The Greek Chess Problem Society have the honour to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), national teams and individual solvers, chess composers and all those interested in problem chess, to attend the 63rd World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 44th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC).
The congress will be held from Saturday, October 16th (arrival)to Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 (departure) at the “Rodos Palace Hotel” ***** in the island of Rhodes, with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19th and 20th.
Please send your registration by August 31st 2021 to wccc2021gr@gmail.com
Download invitation as PDF | Official website (under construction)
The WCCC 2020 organizing team had an extensive meeting during the weekend and we concluded that the WCCC 2020 should be canceled. We informed the Presidium and all members agreed with our decision.
Our main concern is that nobody can really predict what the situation will be with regard to the COVID-19 in October both in Greece and worldwide. We prefer not to take the risk.
At the moment in Greece even if the lockdown is not so strict as it used to be in the previous three months when practically no activity was possible, the general situation is far from normal. Flights are not allowed yet from many airports, the authorities change restrictions constantly as soon as new instances are detected, the information re. the quarantine that the travelling tourists should undergo varies from country to country and so on. Four months before the congress and we cannot even travel to Rhodes to meet with the hotel management to agree on the necessary arrangements. Too much time has been wasted and there is no sign that we can recover it comfortably.
Of course, we are willing to host the event at the same place in October 2021. We shall keep you updated.
– Harry Fougiaxis on behalf of WCCC 2020 organizing team
