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WCCC2025: Open Solving

By admin 08/07/2025 08/07/2025 WCCC/WCSC

07.07.25. Open Solving Tournament

67.WCCC & 48.WCSC – last call for registration

By admin 01/05/2025 01/05/2025 WCCC/WCSC

The 67^th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 48^th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) will be held from Saturday, July 5^th (arrival) to Saturday, July 12^th, 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: 15^th May 2025
The accommodation reservation deadline: 5^th May 2025

Please use the registration button on the official website.

Contact: wcsc2025@yahoo.com | INVITATION in PDF | WCCC 2025 official website

WCCC2025 official WEBSITE launched!

By admin 27/02/2025 27/02/2025 WCCC/WCSC

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 registration deadline is May 15^th, 2025. Please use the registration button on the official website.

Contact: wcsc2025@yahoo.com | INVITATION in PDF | WCCC 2025 official website

Invitation to Alba Iulia: 67. WCCC & 48. WCSC

By admin 09/01/2025 09/01/2025 WCCC/WCSC

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 67^th World Congress
of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 48^th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC). Romanian Chess Federation will also celebrate its centennial in 2025.
The congress will be held from Saturday, July 5^th (arrival) to Saturday, July 12^th, 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 Fujairah Grand Prix 2025-26

By admin 23/12/2024 24/12/2024 ECSC, Other, WCCC/WCSC

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 qualifying stages may be any strong solving competitions, but the highest points in qualifications and the highest prizes will be earned in two strongest competitions: WCSC & ECSC.

The organizers of WCSC & ECSC 2025 have confirmed they would join the Grand Prix cycle, so the results from these two competitions will complete qualifications in 2025. If the 2026 hosts of ECSC or WCSC decide not to be a part of the Grand Prix cycle, the results of two other 2026 solving events will be counted instead of the results of ECSC/WCSC. Thus, the 2025-26 cycle may consist of 4, 5 or 6 qualifying stages.

Each ECSC leg will have a budget of 12,000 €, including 2,000 € allocated to the host for covering the expenses of judges, solving halls, etc. The remaining 10,000 € will be distributed to the winners in general standings; to the most successful women, seniors, domestic participants and juniors in different age categories (U23, U18 & U14), as well as to the best participants in different rating categories. The highest individual prize is 1,000 € – for the individual ECSC winner.

The budget for the WCSC leg is 15,000 €, including 3,000 € allocated to the organizing expenses. The fund for solvers of 12,000 € will be distributed to proportionally increased prizes for the same categories of solvers as in the ECSC leg. The highest prize is 1,250 €, for the individual WCSC winner.

In the Fujairah Final, the prize fund will be 27,000 € for solvers, and 3,000 € for composers. The problems and endgames to be solved in the Final will be originals, each composed by a different author. The Top Ten solvers in the final standings will vote for the best problem/endgame in each of the six rounds.

The part of the Grand Prix budget allocated to organizing costs should allow better overall conditions and a dignified status of judges and competitors (adequate solving hall, coffee breaks, appropriate closing ceremony with cups and medals, etc). With the lack of human resources we’ve been facing (including organizers and judges), and with a constant rise of prices, the budget for organizing costs comes as a very valuable support to the WFCC.

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!

66th WCCC – Highlights and Decisions

By admin 15/08/2024 29/07/2025 WCCC/WCSC

-> See more about highlights & decisions

30 member countries were present, 4 of them via Zoom connection.

Upcoming events 2025:

21^st International Solving Contest (ISC) on 19.01.2025, Director Arvydas Mockus.

The deadlines for bids for 67^th WCCC, 48^th WCSC & 18^th 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.

Jūrmala WCCC 2024 – short summary

By admin 03/08/2024 18/08/2024 WCCC/WCSC

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 Ketris
WFCC opening session
(29.07) Open Solving | Results | Norms | WSC Points | WSC Standings
Retro Solving | RESULTS | PROBLEMS | SOLUTIONS
(30.07) 47.WCSC day 1
Lectures – Endgame evening
(31.07) 47.WCSC day 2 | RESULTS Individuals | Teams | Presentation
WFCC 2^nd session
Baltic Combined | RESULTS
(01.08) Fairy Solving | RESULTS | PROBLEMS | SOLUTIONS
(02.08) WFCC 3^rd session
Prizegiving/Unofficial Composing Tourneys
Prizegiving & Final Banquet (Jūrmala restaurant)
Composing Tournaments started before WCCC 2024:
5-DAYS COMPOSING TOURNEY (hs#) | AWARD by Kjell Widlert
Internet Tourney 2024 – Mate in 2 moves | AWARD by Marjan Kovačević
8^th Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2024
Unofficial thematic composing

WCCC 2024 Jūrmala: last call for registration

By admin 22/05/2024 22/05/2024 WCCC/WCSC

Latvian Chess Problem Society reminds you about the deadline to register for the 66^th 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 detail. Being a registered participant you would be getting from us all important emails about the event.

The same time we would appreciate if you inform the organizers by email wccc2024@wfcc.ch in a case of cancellation.

The last day to have guaranteed rooms in the official venue of the Congress, Hotel Jurmala SPA, is 27.05.2024! The discounted prices will be still valid up to 27.06.2024, but the reservations will be a subject to availability. No more discounted rooms starting 28.06.2024! Please consider a high season, and much higher regular prices in the same hotel!

Invitation to Jurmala: 66. WCCC & 47. WCSC

By admin 18/12/2023 19/12/2023 WCCC/WCSC

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: Jurmala, Beach resort of Latvia

The WCCC venue – Hotel Jūrmala SPA – a 4 star hotel, one of the largest spa hotels in the Baltics. The hotel has a perfect location right in the heart of the resort town Jūrmala – on pedestrian Street Jomas and just a few hundred meters from the golden beach.

Contact: wccc2024@wfcc.ch | INVITATION in PDF | Official website of the WCCC 2024

Awards of Composing tournaments @ WCCC Batumi 2023

By admin 05/12/2023 18/12/2023 WCCC/WCSC

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 the Batumi page of the MEETINGS section:

Awards of Composing tournaments:
21^st Tzuica Tourney Award Batumi 2023
26^th SABRA Composing Tourney Award Batumi 2023
Champagne Tourney Award Batumi 2023-v2
Five Days composing tourney Award WCCC Batumi 2023
Quick composing tourney Award WCCC Batumi 2023
6^th Murfatlar Tourney Award Batumi 2023
9^th Azemmour Tourney Award Batumi 2023
19^th Ukrainian folk crafts Tourney Award Batumi 2023
20^th Japanese Sake Tourney Award Batumi 2023

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