At the WCCC in Dresden new rules have been decided effective as from the 2017/2018 cycle of the WSC. Main focus of the changes was the aim to better attract travelling to solving tournaments in other countries. The main changes are: New distribution of points for categories 1-7 which reduces the excessively increasing differences of […]
World Solving Cup 2016/2017: WCCC Open 2017, Dresden, 7.8.2017Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.600The WSC category of the tournament: 1More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar. Winners of the WSC 2016/2017: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | Bojan Vuckovic (SRB) | Kacper Piorun (POL) The next cycle, WSC 2017/18, will be directed by Marek Kolčák.
(09.08) 41th WCSC – Final Results: Individuals | Teams | Statistics (09.08) 41th WCSC – 2nd day: Preliminary Individual Results | Preliminary Team ResultsProblems | Solutions (08.08) 41th WCSC – 1st day: Preliminary Individual Results | Preliminary Team Results (08.08) Open Solving: Final Results (07.08) Open Solving: Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results
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 Minutes including Annex No.1, 2, 3, 4 (PDF, 613 KB) of the WFCC 59th Ordinary Meeting (World Congress) Belgrade, Serbia, 30th July – 6th August 2016, are published under Meetings→Belgrade (59th WCCC).
Schwalbe, deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach, and the local organizing committee have the honour to invite national representatives of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), national chess solving teams, individual solvers and composers and everybody interested in problem chess, to attend the jubilee 60th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 41st World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC). The congress will be […]
Happy Chess Composition Day! Ten years ago (WCCC Rhodes, 2007) our organization (PCCC at that time) established the International Day of Chess Composition. According to the proposal by the Grandmaster Valentin Rudenko (1938-2016), today we celebrate an important date in the history of chess composition. On January 4th 1869, the Czech (Bohemian at that time) […]
(09.08) The 40th WCSC in Belgrade, 02-03.08.2016: Final Results | Statistics (08.08) The latest updates of WSC 2016-17 are ready. (08.08) 59th WCCC 2016 highlights and decisions.
(05.08) A page with the final WCSC results and the latest updates of WSC 2016-17 will be ready in a few days. (05.08) Prize giving for composing and solving tourneys, live streaming on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNFsm7tQH10 (03.08) WCCC 2016, Serbia – WFCC rapid chess match. Tonight, 20:00, there will be a rapid chess match between the selected team […]
World Solving Cup 2015/2016: WCCC Open 2016, Belgrade, 1.8.2016Winner: Kacper Piorun (POL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.620The WSC category of the tournament: 1 Winners of the WSC 2015/2016: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR) Martynas Limontas (LTU) More details and the final WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar. The next cycle, WSC 2016/17, will be […]
