The preliminary results in section B-Threemovers (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!
The preliminary results in section F-Selfmates (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!
The preliminary results in section H-Retros (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!
As of 2016 also all tournaments which are included in the rating list but are not provided by the WFCC and are not part of the World Solving Cup will be published with results, problems and solutions. The page for 2017 has been created and the first tournament of the year is published there.See Competitions→Solving→Other […]
Luc Palmans has built a database with problems of national and international chess solving tournaments since 1977 and will periodically update the database. The update as of 1st January, 2017 can be found here.
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2017 are published! 8 tournaments included: 1st Solving Cup Byron Zappas; 9th Albino Cup Minsk; 25th Kedainiai Cup; 29th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial; ICH of Belgium Geel; 15th Grand Prix Warsaw Open; 15th ICH of Greece Athens; 15th Grand Prix Warsaw. Three top solvers are: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.
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) […]
As of 2016 also all tournaments which are included in the rating list but are not provided by the WFCC and are not part of the World Solving Cup will be published with results, problems and solutions. With this new web page transparency of these rated tournaments can be improved and interested solvers get the […]
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2016 are published! 6 tournaments included: OPEN Klaipeda; 24th ICH of Czechia Pardubice; 1st Azerbaijan Chess Solving Cup; OPEN Beograd; 41st WCSC Beograd; ICH of Switzerland Bern. Three top solvers are: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organising the 5th FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2017 in eight sections. The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess […]
