Jurmala will host 66th WCCC and 47th WCSC (27.07 – 03.08.2024)

WFCC online Meeting, 8th November 2023

30 Member Countries took part in the WFCC online Meeting that was mostly devoted to discussion about the future WFCC events and the host of the 66th WCCC and 47th WCSC 2024.

At the beginning, the FIDE Album Committee spokesman Harry Fougiaxis announced the new title-holders in chess composition:

  • Grandmaster: Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (DEN)
  • International Master: Karen Sumbatyan (RUS)
  • FIDE Masters: Sergiy Didukh (UKR), Daniel Keith (FRA), Jan Sprenger (GER), Aleksandr Stavrietsky (RUS)

Congratulations!!

These norms were fulfilled according to the results of the Section D (endgames) of the FIDE Album 2019-2021, published on 4th November.

→read more: WSC rules and discussion by country…

This long-lasting session was interrupted after speeches of some other delegates, to execute secret voting while all participants were still present. Out of 30 delegates in the Zoom Meeting 21 gave vote to Jurmala, four to Rhodes and three to Rio de Janeiro. One delegate didn’t vote and one was abstained. After adding two more votes sent by email, Jurmala convincingly won straight majority with 23 votes from 32 delegates.

With such a wide support, we will be preparing for a memorable Congress in Latvia, from 27th July to 3rd August 2024!

After the voting some delegates had to leave, while others continued the review by countries.

→read more: discussion by country…

This Zoom Meeting was excellently organized by the secretary Mohammad Alhallak. He also replaced the UAE delegate Abdulla Ali Aal Barket in presenting optimistic plans about development of solving in the UAE, in neighboring countries and in the whole Asia.

Marjan Kovačević, WFCC president


WFCC Zoom meeting 16.06.21

The Zoom meeting 16.06.21 18:00 CEST was hosted by Andrey Selivanov with Harry Fougiaxis and Julia Vysotska as cohosts. Attendees were: Harry Fougiaxis, Greece -President, Klaus Wenda, Austria -Honourary President, Vidmantas Satkus, Lithuania -2nd Vice-President, Luc Palmans, Belgium -3rd Vice-President, Neal Turner, Finland -Secretary, Delegates from 18 countries and 5 more attendees.

See the whole report in PDF, including the topics:
Task-force report (Summary of discussions)
WCCC
FIDE Album
WCCI
Next meeting

Neal Turner, Helsinki 18.6.2021

WFCC Zoom meeting 02.06.21

The Zoom meeting 02.06.21 18:00 CEST was hosted by Andrey Selivanov with Harry Fougiaxis and Julia Vysotska as cohosts. Attendees were: Harry Fougiaxis, Greece -President, Klaus Wenda, Austria -Honourary President, Thomas Maeder, Switzerland -1st Vice-President, Vidmantas Satkus, Lithuania -2nd Vice-President, Luc Palmans, Belgium -3rd Vice-President, Neal Turner, Finland -Secretary, Delegates from 17 countries and 8 more attendees.

See the whole report in PDF, including the topics:
Solving committee
WCCC
United Arab Emirates
WFCC internet site
FIDE Album
Women’s solving titles
Next meeting

Neal Turner, Helsinki 03.6.2021

WFCC Zoom meeting 19.05.21

The Zoom meeting 19.05.21 18:00 CEST was hosted by Andrey Selivanov with Julia Vysotska as cohosts.
Attendees were: Harry Fougiaxis, Greece -President, Klaus Wenda, Austria -Honourary President, Thomas Maeder, Switzerland -1st Vice-President, Vidmantas Satkus, Lithuania -2nd Vice-President, Luc Palmans, Belgium -3rd Vice-President, Neal Turner, Finland -Secretary, Delegates from 18 countries and 6 more attendees.

See the whole report in PDF, including the topics:

Points from the previous meeting
Russian participation in world championship events
WCCC 2021
WCSC
Budget 2019-2020
Committee matters
WFCC web site
World Cup in Composing
Online task force

Next meeting
There was some questioning about how we should carry on with these meetings.
Mr Kovačević suggested we shouldn’t stop with online work until the Congress.
He also thought that there should be an official agenda drawn up and circulated before the meeting.
It was agreed the next meeting would be on Wednesday 2.6.21 18:00 CEST

Neal Turner, Helsinki 10.5.2021


WFCC Zoom meeting 10.05.21

by Abdelaziz Onkoud

The Zoom meeting 10.05.21 19:00 CEST was hosted by Andrey Selivanov with Harry Fougiaxis and Julia Vysotska as cohosts.

Attendees were: Harry Fougiaxis Greece -President, John Rice Great Britain -Honourary President, Thomas Maeder Switzerland -1st Vice-President, Vidmantas Satkus Lithuania -1st Vice-President, Neal Turner, Finland -Secretary, Pavel Kameník, Czech Republic -Delegate, Bjørn Enemark, Denmark -Delegate, Hannu Harkola, Finland -Delegate, Axel Gilbert, France -Delegate, David Gurgenidze, Georgia -Delegate, bernd ellinghoven, Germany -Delegate, Brian Stephenson, Great Britain -Delegate, Yochanan Afek, Israel -Delegate, Julia Vysotska, Latvia -Delegate, Abdelaziz Onkoud, Morocco -Delegate, Dinu-Ioan Nicula, Romania -Delegate, Andrey Selivanov, Russia -Delegate, Marjan Kovačević, Serbia -Delegate, Peter Gvozdják, Slovakia -Delegate, Joaquim Crusats, Spain -Delegate, Kjell Widlert, Sweden -Delegate, Valery Kopyl, Ukraine -Delegate, Zoltán Laborczi, Hungary -Delegate.

The meeting started on time with a discussion of the points raised by Marjan Kovačević…

See the whole report in PDF, including the topics:

1.1. Do we want to have these meetings regularly, at least until the next live Congress?
1.2. Logistic for the online meetings: who does what?
1.3. The rights for decision making
1.4. How to decide about the changes of Statutes if needed?
The ECSC & WCSC meetings

Summing up at the end of the meeting the President emphasised the importance for the Federation of the Congress going ahead this year.

Mr Kovačević welcomed the presence online of attendees from far afield such as Singapore and
India as well as others who wouldn’t normally attend live meetings.

The next Zoom meeting was set for Wednesday 19.5 at 18:00 CEST

Neal Turner, Helsinki 10.5.2021