The 48th World Chess Solving Championship takes place in Alba Iulia (Romania) 08-09 July 2025.
09.07.25:
Preliminary result of after the 5th Round: Individual | Teams
Preliminary result of after the 4th Round: Individual | Teams
08.07.25:
Preliminary result of after the 3rd Round: Individual | Teams | Detailed Teams
Preliminary result of after the 2nd Round: Individual | Teams
Preliminary result of after the 1st Round: Individual | Teams
On Tuesday 8th July Congress program first time included an evening devoted to young composers only. The heroes of the night were nine composers aged from 11 to 22, presenting their creations and telling about themselves: Nikolai Sheviakov, Alexandru Mihălcescu, Taras Rudenko, Daniel Dumitrescu, Stefan-Constantin Harnagea, Anton Nasyrov, Ilija Serafimović, Joachim Hambros, and Benjamin Defromont. Vlaicu Crișan and Marjan Kovačević were running the 2 hours long program, with very active contribution from the audience and participants themselves. For all involved, it was one of the highlights of the Congress, concluded with a joint wish to have it soon again.
Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2025 | 18th and last tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:
Participants: 94 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL), ahead of Aleksey Popov FID) and junior Maksim Kharitonov (FID).
GM, IM and FM norm of Maksim Kharitonov (FID),
GM norm of Vidmantas Satkus (LTU)
IM and FM norm of Anton Nasyrov (FID)
FM norm of Taras Rudenko (UKR)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2586.13 | WSC category: 2
Top 5 Final Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 133 points (unchanged), 2. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 96 points (+41), 3. Kacper Piorun (POL) 91 points (+19), 4. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 66 points (+8), 5. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 65 points (23).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup & Norms @ Solving Portal
07.07.25. Open Solving Tournament
The 67th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 48th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) will be held from Saturday, July 5th (arrival) to Saturday, July 12th, 2025 (departure) at ’Cetate Hotel’ *** in Alba Iulia (Romania), with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8th and 9th. The WCCC 2025 director is IM Mihnea Costachi.
Please use the registration button on the official website.
Contact: wcsc2025@yahoo.com | INVITATION in PDF | WCCC 2025 official website
We are happy to announce the launch of the official website and we are waiting all chess solving and composing enthusiasts in Alba Iulia!
The 67th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 48th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) will be held from Saturday, July 5th (arrival) to Saturday, July 12th, 2025 (departure) at ’Cetate Hotel’ *** in Alba Iulia (Romania), with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8th and 9th. The WCCC 2025 director is IM Mihnea Costachi.
The registration deadline is May 15th, 2025. Please use the registration button on the official website.
Contact: wcsc2025@yahoo.com | INVITATION in PDF | WCCC 2025 official website
Romanian Chess Federation and ’Mihnea Costachi Chess Academy’ Association have 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 67th World Congress
of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 48th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC). Romanian Chess Federation will also celebrate its centennial in 2025.
The congress will be held from Saturday, July 5th (arrival) to Saturday, July 12th, 2025 (departure) at ’Cetate Hotel’ *** in Alba Iulia (Romania), with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8th and 9th. The WCCC 2025 director is IM Mihnea Costachi.
Contact: wcsc2025@yahoo.com | INVITATION in PDF
WFCC Presidium has the pleasure of presenting an important project to popularize chess composition and assure better conditions for our most important solving competitions.
Upon a personal initiative of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, our UAE members, WFCC Vice-President Abdulla Ali Aal Barket, and WFCC Secretary Mohammad Alhallak, have realized the project of the WFCC Fujairah Grand Prix cycle 2025-26, the first cycle of what is planned to be a traditional competition.
See the detailed WFCC Fujairah Grand Prix Regulations
The Grand Prix 2025-26 consists of (at least) four qualifying solving competitions, leading to the final competition in Fujairah, at the end of 2026. →read more (show/hide)…
The Grand Prix budget isn’t related to the WFCC budget. The competitions using the Grand Prix budget are obliged to promote the official logo of the Grand Prix in official presentations, such as websites, banners and rolls up:
WFCC Presidium welcomes this generous initiative of the UAE members to assure continuation of our most important competitions and to lift them to a higher level. We trust the WFCC Fujairah Grand Prix 2025-26 will be a great success and the beginning of a long lasting tradition.
Merry Christmas to all lovers of chess composition!
30 member countries were present, 4 of them via Zoom connection.
Upcoming events 2024:
21st International Solving Contest (ISC) on 19.01.2025, Director Arvydas Mockus.
The deadlines for bids for 67th WCCC, 48th WCSC & 18th ECSC were extended till October 5 2024, the final decisions will be made in an online Meeting after that. The only bid presented before the Congress, to hold WCCC & WCSC 2025 in Moscow, wasn’t supported by the assembly.
