The 11th European Chess Solving Championship was organized by the Iasi County Chess Association and the Romanian Chess Federation in the weekend of 2-3 May. The Open Tournament was conducted by Dinu-Ioan Nicula and the ECSC by Ryszard Królikowski. The full results, the problems and their solutions are available here.
The selected compositions was of a well-balanced difficulty with the studies and moremovers in the ECSC creating most of the headaches to the solvers.
The events were conducted flawlessly and WFCC is grateful to the Romanian organizing team for hosting the championship in the booming Iasi and for providing a nice hotel and a very convenient solving hall.
Reminder: Invitation to Ostróda: 58th WCCC & 39th WCSC
Dear Chess Friends,
Please let us remind you the deadline for registering to WCCC & WCSC in Ostroda is May 15th 2015. There are still rooms available, but the number of them is significantly reduced.
Piotr Murdzia, Aleksander Miśta
Download invitation as PDF | Official website: www.wccc2015.com
FIDE ALBUM 2010-2012 – Results in section G
We conclude the results of the 2010-12 Album with the report of the Fairies section.
As the director writes, the task of the judges was huge (the number of entries to be reviewed was a bit more than 1500, a record!), but they managed to finish on time showing a great deal of enthusiasm and good co-operation.
Solvers’ ratings April 1st 2015
Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2015 are published!
6 tournaments included: 2nd Greek solving cup; 11th ISC; 7th WC Moscow; 38th ICH of Poland Pulawy; ICH of Great Britain Eton College; 21st ICH of Netherlands Nunspeet.
Three top solvers are the same as in January 2015: Georgy Evseev, Piotr Murdzia and Kacper Piorun!
4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 – Preliminary results – H-Retros & G-Fairies
The last preliminary results of the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2015, in section H-Retros and section G-Fairies, are published!
H-Retros (PDF, 295KB) & G-Fairies (PDF, 155KB) and also all previous results can be found under the Announcement, on the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 page.
Our gratitude to the organizers of the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing, to the director, Aleksey Oganesjan, and to all judges for their work! Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 – Preliminary results – D-Studies
The preliminary results in section D-Endgame studies of the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2015 are published!
D-Endgame studies (PDF, 260KB) can be found under the Announcement, on the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 page. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
FIDE ALBUM 2010-2012 – Results in section A
The results of the 2010-12 Album Twomovers section are ready. Our warmest thanks to the director and judges for their hard work!
We hope to be able to present the results of the pending fairies section pretty soon!
4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 – Preliminary results – E-Helpmates
The preliminary results in section E-Helpmates of the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2015 are published!
E-Helpmates (PDF, 230KB) can be found under the Announcement, on the 4th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2015 page. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
FIDE ALBUM 2010-2012 – Results in section F
The results of the 2010-12 Album Selfmates section are ready. Our warmest thanks to the director and judges for their hard work!
We hope to be able to present the results of the two pending sections (twomovers and fairies) pretty soon.
10th WCCT: Announcement
Another important milestone achieved! The WCCT-10 announcement is ready!
The WCCT committee had been very busy in the past months with the selection of themes and judging countries of the 10th World Chess Composition Tournament. We invite the problemists worldwide to download the announcement which includes the rules, the time schedule and the theme definitions. As Georgy Evseev, the Spokesman of the committee and director of the tournament, points out the 10th WCCT will be the first tournament that is started without Uri Avner, who was the driving force behind several of the recent WCCTs. We hope that the themes presented in the announcement will provide the necessary inspiration for the final result to be marvelous and to reflect the best our art can achieve. We also hope that this will be a good way to pay our last respect to Uri Avner.