Merry Christmas!

Dear WFCC community,
our composers, solvers, judges, organizers, supporters,
and all friends of chess composition, have a Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your winter holidays as much as you can, with family, friends, and a chess board too! Before we finalize the year 2022, here are some recent news and nice materials for you to see:

The 65th WCCC will be held from 2nd to 9th September 2023 in Batumi.

The WCCC2022 Bulletin (171 pages!) has been compiled, with generous help from Hannu Harkola.

The WCCC 2022 Media section has grown to include hundreds of photos, external articles, and videos.

We’ve got an invitation from the FIDE to promote our most important events, on their official website.

We live in the times of social media, and now please welcome the WFCC in this open air too! See icons for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram on the top right corner of the official website. Whichever of them you use, please, visit our introductory post and join the WFCC followers! Let’s keep in touch!

FINAL results of the 10th FIDE World Cup in Composing

The FINAL results of the 10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section.

“Congratulations to all for completing the 10th FIDE World Cup in the planned time frame!  Congratulations to all winners and prize-winners! I wish new creative successes to all the participants! And, especially thanks to the director and the judges for their work!”

Andrey Selivanov, FIDE Chess Composition Director


Solvers’ ratings October 1st 2022

Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2022 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
Only 3 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2022 are included: 1st Solving Tournament of Martynas Limontas 2022, 30th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2022, 20th Greek Chess Solving Championship 2022.
The ranking of the top ten solvers almost remain the same with the exception of Silvio Baier who now belongs to the non active solvers. The largest three gains have been achieved by Martynas Limontas (LTU / +43.29), ahead of junior solver Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU / +30.72) and women solver Laura Rogule (LAT / +29.07).


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – C

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The preliminary results in section C – Moremovers (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 30.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – E

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The preliminary results in section E – Helpmates (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 22.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – D

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The preliminary results in section D – Endgame studies (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 22.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – G

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The preliminary results in section G – Fairies (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in the Preliminary Results section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 21.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – A

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The preliminary results in section A – Twomovers (PDF) are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. Preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 07.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – B & H

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The preliminary results in section B – Threemovers (PDF) and H-Retros and Proofgames (PDF) of the 10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. This time preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 02.09.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!


10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 – Preliminary results – F

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The preliminary results in section F – Selfmates (PDF) of the 10th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2022 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section. This time preliminary results are published without names. Names will appear in the final results. Claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director during one month after the publication of the preliminary results (until 18.08.2022).
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!