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.”
Solvers’ ratings as of october 1st 2021 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 13 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2021 are included: 42nd French Championship 2021, Open of 3rd Ukrainian Cup 2021, 3rd Ukrainian Cup 2021, Open of Russian Women Championship 2021, 7th Russian Women Championship 2021, Open of Golden Ring Cup 2021, Golden Ring Cup 2021, Russian Youth Cup 2021, 29th Championship of Slovakia 2021, 44th Polish Championship 2021, 47th Latvian Championship 2021, 29th Czech Championship 2021, Moscow Championship 2021.
The top ten remain the same solvers as in the previous quarter.
The largest five gains have all been achieved by Russian junior solvers: Egor Sokolov (RUS / +78.46), Oleg Tsaplin (RUS / +67.44), Marina Putintseva, (RUS / +65.94), Nikita Ushakov (RUS / +61.80), Anastasiya Chekina (RUS / +34.30).
The FINAL results of the 9th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section.
“Congratulations to all for completing the 9th FIDE World Cup in the planned time frame! Congratulations to all winners and prize-winners! I wish new creative successes to all the participants! And, especially thanks to the director and the judges for their work!”
Andrey Selivanov, FIDE Chess Composition Director
Please note that the “Solving Tournaments Problem Database (STPDB)” is fully integrated into the Solving Tournament Manager tool of WFCC. On the top of the STPDB database the STM tool contains problems from all tournaments entered into STM as of October 2015 and all others which Luc Palmans previously has entered into STPDB. At the moment this database contains about 12,000 problems and it’s constantly growing as new tournaments are added. So the validation if selected tournament problems are used before for solving tournaments should be done by using the STM tool. For more information see here. (Roland Ott, Solving Committee)
Harry Fougiaxis, the director of the 11th World Chess Composition Tournament, presents the ENTRIES BOOKLET of 8 sections with introduction (available from the 11th WCCT page): Introduction | Section A | Section B | Section C | Section D & Section D (PGN) | Section E | Section F | Section G | Section H
35 countries participate with 86 compositions in A, 75 in B, 67 in C, 74 in D, 92 in E, 71 in F, 54 in G and 79 in H.
Update 11.09.2021: The PGN file of section D (endgame studies) has been updated with comments from some countries. Please download again.
Update 02.09.2021: The file of section H (proofgames) has been updated as the diagram and the solution of H78 were incorrect. Please download again.
Update 01.09.2021: The file of section C (moremovers) has been updated as the solution of C56 was incomplete. Please download again.
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