Many thanks to the judges of the WFCC 70JT for their hard work and for completing the awards on time!
Director, Narayan Shankar Ram
WFCC-70JT: Judges appreciation note
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section G (Fairies)
The award for Section G (Fairies) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Maryan Kerhuel, for his detailed and meticulous work, in the most difficult and demanding section!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
Solvers’ ratings October 1st 2026
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2026 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
3 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2026 are included: Open Solving Tournament of the WCCC 2026, 49th World Chess Solving Championship 2026, 2nd Pavlos Moutecidis Memorial Solving Tourney 2026.
Ranking of the top 10 solvers: 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 2830.17 (unchanged), 2. Kacper Piorun (POL) 2741.44 (-20.56), 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 2732.35 (+1.28), 4. Ural Khasanov (FID) 2722.25 (+3.92), 5. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 2660.02 (+20.36), 6. John Nunn (GBR) 2636.35 (unchanged), 7. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 2623.46 (+11.18), 8. Ulrich Voigt (GER) 2605.43 (+35.18), 9. Ladislav Salai (SVK) 2592.66 (-19.88), 10. Aleksey Popov (FID) 2591.59 (unchanged).
Largest 5 gains (all juniors!): Darya Efimova (FID +166.44, Grigorii Filin (FID) +115.34, Szymon Boryna (POL) +103.46, WIM/FM Ekaterina Shestakova (FID) +96.34, Viktoriya Kharitonova (FID) +92.94.
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section F (Selfmates)
The award for Section F (Selfmates) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Hartmut Laue, for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section A (Twomovers)
The award for Section A (Twomovers) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Kabe Moen, for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section C (Moremovers)
The award for Section C (Moremovers) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Oto Mihalčo, for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section D (Endgame Studies)
The award for Section D (Endgame Studies) is ready! Thanks to the judge, David Gurgenidze, for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
FIDE Album 2022-24 Section D results
The results of the FIDE Album 2022-24 section D are ready!
Many thanks to the director Jan Sprenger and the team of judges Amatzia Avni, Oleg Pervakov, and Vladislav Tarasyuk for their swift and efficient work!
In a nutshell:
- 934 studies were submitted, without counting duplicates.
- 840 studies reached a score of at least 4,5 points.
- 228 studies by 56 composers were selected (24,4% of all submitted studies and 27,1% of all studies with at least 4,5 points).
More details can be found in the director’s exemplary report
The total scores of the compositions are now available in a spreadsheet
The list of successful composers’ album points is very informative.
This 3-year-period was very fruitful for the study composers. Congratulations to the new title holders: 3 GM (Arestov, Costeff, Tarasyuk), 4 IM (González, the late Maksimovskikh, Pasman, Sprenger), 3 FM (Gromov, Kopylov, Neishtadt Jr.) Titles will be officially approved in the next online or regular Meeting.
It is also very encouraging to find in the list 5 youngsters’ names: Ivan Belonozhko, Ural Khasanov, Itay Richardson, Taras Rudenko, Ben Smolkin. Kudos to all of them!
(Update 24.09.2026): We spotted a few minor glitches, for which we sincerely apologize. No.453 is a joint composition, thus in the list of album points 0,83 points have to be subtracted for Valery Kalashnikov and 0,83 points have to be added for Sergey Osintsev. The names of the following composers and their points were missing: Igor Agapov (0,83 points), Sarah Hornecker † (0,56 points) and Helmut Waelzel (0,56 points). All the results and files have been updated!
Harry Fougiaxis, FIDE Album Committee spokesman
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section E (Helpmates)
The award for Section E (Helpmates) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Marko Klasinc, for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.
WFCC-70JT: Preliminary award for Section B (Threemovers)
The award for Section B (Threemovers) is ready! Thanks to the judge, Aleksandr Kuzovkov for his work!
The award is published in the Preliminary Results section of the WFCC-70JT page.
Please send claims to the director (wfcc70jt@gmail.com) before 15-Nov-2026.