FIDE Album 2007-2009 & Album points till 2012

fide-album-0709-bookThe FIDE Album 2007-2009 (the official selection of the world’s best and most representative chess compositions) has been published. 640 pages, 1426 diagrams, 312 authors. Comments, indexes, registers, statistics in English.

Hard-cover blue clothbound. Price 45 euro (surface shipping free). Discounts if more copies ordered. Orders to Peter Gvozdják, peter.gvozdjak@gmail.com. Sample pages available as a PDF file.

WFCC is glad that the new editorial team continues the work of the old team keeping the same high-quality standards. Our sincere thanks and congratulations to all those who contributed to the project: directors, judges, indexers and editors. We updated the relevant pages with the statistics of both 2007-09 and 2010-12 albums (the latter is currently in progress).

58th WCCC & 39th WCSC: Breaking news

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(13.08) Highlights and Decisions

(09.08) The BULLETIN of the Congress (last version)

(08.08) Rating of the 39th WCSC, Ostróda, 04-05 August 2015 

(07.08) The 39th WCSC, Ostróda, 04-05 August 2015 – Preliminary results are replaced with Final results | Statistics

(05.08) The 39th WCSC, Ostróda, 04-05 August 2015 – Preliminary results, 1st-2nd day 

(05.08) Rating of the 58th WCCC Open, Ostróda, 03 August 2015 

(04.08) The 39th WCSC, Ostróda, 04-05 August 2015 – Preliminary results, 1st day 

(04.08) The 58th WCCC Open, Ostróda, 03 August 2015 – Final results 

(03.08) The 58th WCCC Open, Ostróda, 03 August 2015 – Preliminary results 

Solvers’ ratings July 1st 2015

Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2015 are published!
12 tournaments included: 9th Uralskij problemist Cup Tula; 23rd ICH of Russia Tula; 23rd ICH of Slovakia Bytca; 36th ICH of Azerbaijan Baku; Open Kedainiai; 36th ICH of Lietuva Kedainiai; 39th ICH of Germany Hannover; Open Iasi; 11th ECSC Iasi; ICH of Serbia Beograd; 2nd Israeli OSC; 14th ICH of Greece Athens.

Three top solvers are the same during the last year: Georgy Evseev, Piotr Murdzia and Kacper Piorun!

Participants of the 10th WCCT

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The following 39 countries are registered as participants of the 10th World Chess Composition Tournament: Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, USA.


Reminder: 10th WCCT Registration

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The WCCT committee would like to remind you that the Registrations for the 10th World Chess Composition Tournament should be submitted by May 15th, 2015, including the name, e-mail and postal address of the country’s team leader. Please read the WCCT-10 announcement for more information. At the moment, the following 26 countries are registered: Armenia; Austria; Belarus; Denmark; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Hungary; India; Israel; Italy; Moldova; Mongolia; Netherlands; Romania; Russia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; USA.


11th ECSC – Results

11ECSC-logo211ECSC-logo1The 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.