See detailed information, tournaments/results and photo gallery on the official WCCC 2024 website – WCCC2024.WFCC.CH The program included: (27.07) Informal Opening (sunset in the Seaside bar) (28.07) Quick composing tourneys (#2 & r#2) | AWARD by Harry Fougiaxis & AWARD by Iļja KetrisWFCC opening session (29.07) Open Solving | Results | Norms | WSC Points | WSC StandingsRetro Solving | RESULTS | PROBLEMS | SOLUTIONS (30.07) 47.WCSC […]
Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2024 | 18th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 90 | Joint Winners: Piotr Murdzia (POL) and Boris Tummes (GER) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Miroslav Voráček (CZE).1st IM and GM norm of Miroslav Voráček (CZE), IM norms of Andy Ooms (BEL) and Dmitrijus Chocenka (LTU), FM norms of Lev Glanzspiegel (ISR), Richard Dobiáš (SVK) and Stasys Steponavičius (LTU)Average rating […]
The celebration of the FIDE Centenary 1924-2024 will include a new and promising project in cooperation with the WFCC. During November the two biggest FIDE events for cadets (U8, U10, U12) and juniors (U14, U16, U18) will include World Solving Championships for girls and boys, forming the biggest ever youth solving event. Juniors will be […]
Latvian Chess Problem Society reminds you about the deadline to register for the 66th World Congress of Chess Composition: 27.05.2024! Registration on the official website of WCCC 2024 will keep working up to the end of June, but don’t wait for too long! We advise to register even before you make your mind about each […]
The 8th Youth Chess Composing Challenge (YCCC) is the first composing tournament in the context of the Jurmala WCCC 2024. The same as the previous editions, the 8th YCCC will be open to the U23 generation (born no earlier than 01.01.2001) from all the countries, and to all different genres of chess composition. This time the special prizes for the best composers are […]
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 […]
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: […]
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: […]
