The winners of the WFCC Christmas Gallery Contest 2023 Group A M. Witztum & E. Navon 1. Place CGC 2023/A (133 points) Živan Šušulić2. Place CGC 2023-A (125 points) Andrey Frolkin3. Place CGC 2023-A (113 points) Group B Udo Degener1. Place CGC 2023-B (114 points) Jorma Paavilainen2. Place CGC 2023-B (104.5 points) Alexey Gasparyan3. Place […]
Dear composers, solvers, judges, organizers, volunteers, and all lovers of chess composition, have a Merry Christmas!For those of you who are not putting aside chess thoughts during winter holidays, we offered a chance to compose, solve, analyze and judge some original helpmates, inspired by different Christmas joys and symbols. Our friendly Christmas Gallery Contest has […]
Latvian Chess Problem Society has the honor to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), national teams and individual solvers, chess composers and all those interested in problem chess, to attend the 66. World Congress of Chess Composition and 47. World Chess Solving Championship. Week of: 27.07.2024 – 03.08.2024 | Place: […]
Here is a friendly contest for everybody: join the WFCC Xmas Gallery Contest with your original helpmate problems inspired by Christmas! You may send up to two original helpmates to the Gallery Director Kenneth Solja (kenneth.solja@gmail.com) till 22nd December. All received problems, with hidden solutions, and without the names of the composers, will be published on […]
The first version of the online Composing Calendar has been published on the WFCC website (Competitions -> Composing -> Calendar). It presents the formal tournaments (A-H sections) and the informal ones (I section), in chronological order of their deadlines, with columns reporting possible themes, judges and directors, as well as links to the announcements and […]
The content of the official website of the Batumi WCCC 2023 was removed by the organizer. So, the information published there disappeared. However, thanks to Roland Ott, who has collected all awards of official and unofficial composing tournaments with the help of foreign composers (a special thanks to Jorma Paavilainen!) we have them published in […]
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: […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2019-21 section D are ready! A reasonably high number of 1015 studies (not counting 13 duplicates) were received. 873 compositions scored at least 4,5 points (86% of the total entries, a very good percentage). 179 studies out of them scored at least 8 points, which represents a good ratio […]
31 member countries were present, 4 of them via Zoom connection. Armenia was welcomed as the 44th member country of the Federation. Upcoming events 2024: 20th International Solving Contest (ISC) on 21 January 2024, central organizers Luc Palmans and Arvydas Mockus. 17th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC) in Hagen, Germany 19-21 April 2024. 66th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 47th World Chess […]
The FINAL results of the 11th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2023 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. Congratulations to the winners! Thanks a lot to the director and the judges for their work!
