Category: Category: FIDE Albums

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 file.

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 and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

Update 28.5.2018: A selected #3, which is already included in the 2010-12 album, is now removed from the list.

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections  page. The current list of album points has been also updated. The next update will be after the remaining sections of FA 2013-15 are finished.

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) – a very decent percentage of almost 85%. The ratio of the 192 selected twomovers with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 17,6%.

Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

Update (01.07.2017): A composer informed us that he would like to withdraw his entries; he did not clarify the reason. Although we regret his decision, we have to respect it. The page of the results was updated accordingly.

Update (02.07.2017): Thanks to the director’s effort, the composer changed his mind; we are glad he did. The results were updated accordingly.

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.

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 were 580 compositions scoring at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 834 entries, incl. duplicates) – a rather moderate percentage of 70%. The 13,97% ratio of studies with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points was marginally lower than 14%, so also the compositions with 7,5 points are selected.

Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.

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 are impressive even if the absolute number of entries is limited, which obviously helps in having such high percentages.

Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.

The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section C are ready!
Like in the previous album, the moremovers section is the first that is finished.
Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

All results will be published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.

In the Belgrade congress WFCC decided to make the complete list of album points available on the site. The list will be updated regularly, at least twice per year. Any remarks should be sent to the spokesman of the FIDE Album committee; see /wfcc-about/subc/.
You may download the PDF file from here.

The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) invites composers to submit their highest-quality compositions for selection in the 2013-15 FIDE Album.

See the Announcement.

The 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).

We conclude the results of the 2010-12 Album with the report of the Fairies section.
As the director writes, the task of the judges was huge (the number of entries to be reviewed was a bit more than 1500, a record!), but they managed to finish on time showing a great deal of enthusiasm and good co-operation.