The FIDE Album 2010-2012 (the official selection of the world’s best and most representative chess compositions) has been published. 656 pages, 1402 diagrams, 294 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 […]
The Final results of the 5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published – A-Twomovers | B-Threemovers | C-Moremovers | D-Endgame studies | E-Helpmates |F-Selfmates | G-Fairies | H-Retros – and can be also found on the bottom of its page.
The 10th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is completed. In total 38 countries participated in the tournament with 684 compositions in eight sections. The winner of the 10th WCCT is Russia, ahead of Ukraine and Germany. All 38 participating countries received points.See the Preliminary Results of the 10th WCCT and also the Preliminary Award in PDF […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section B are ready!748 compositions scored at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 993 entries without counting duplicates) – a decent percentage of 75%. The ratio of the 170 selected threemovers with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 22,7%. Many thanks to the director […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section A are ready!One of the initially appointed judges had to quit for personal reasons before the evaluation phase starts and had to be substituted by a reserve judge. There were 1090 compositions scoring at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 1287 entries without counting duplicates) – […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section D are ready!The initially appointed director had to quit in the middle of the process for personal reasons; in agreement with the spokesman of the studies committee, Siegfried Hornecker was selected as a substitute who wrapped-up the so far available material and finalized the work on time. There […]
The preliminary results in section G-Fairies (PDF) of the 5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published and can be found under the Announcement. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
Currently about 190 composers, solvers and accompanying persons have announced their participation. Registration remains open until 15 May 2017, the day after the ECSC in Riga. Also standard registration fee of 100 EUR remains payable until 15 May. Torsten Linß (on behalf of the organising committee) Download invitation as PDF | Official website: https://wccc2017.de/
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section H are ready!Retro composers have always been careful to select their highest-quality compositions to be considered for the album and the 2013-15 cycle could not be an exception. 88.8% of the submitted entries scored at least 4.5 points and 27.5% out of them were selected. The figures […]
The preliminary results in section D-Endgame studies (PDF) of the 5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published and can be found under the Announcement. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
