The 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2019 / 4ый Юношеский турнир по составлению 2019, organized by the members of newly formed Youth Committee, offers themes for three genres: #2, h#2 and endgame. The age limit for participants is extended to U23 – for all young composers born 1996 and later. Another important change is introduction […]
The Lithuania Chess Composers’ Society would like to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), chess solvers and chess composers, all those who are interested in chess problems and accompanying persons to attend the 62nd World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 43rd World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC). The congress and […]
The first version of the WCCC 2018 bulletin is assembled from the received and collected resources. It contains results of all competitions, and includes auto-generated table of contents and bookmarks, for easy navigation. Update is planned at least for December, when, after the 3-month objection period, preliminary awards of pre-congress tourneys will be replaced by final […]
The 42nd WCSC‘s summary page presents team and individual results, photos of the winners, the introductory words by competition director Ivan Denkovski: “As the director, I should better refrain from any predictions about the outcome of the championship, but nevertheless, I can say that it will really be a surprise if Poland does not continue […]
The following solving documents are updated after the 61st WCCC: Rules: WCSC/ECSC | ISC | Solvers’ rating, rated tournaments, norms Titles: Application form for the FIDE Solving Judge title: Word file (doc) for download
26 member countries were present. Neal Turner acted as substitute secretary. WCCT: Mikalai Sihnevich (BLR) will be the director of the 11th WCCT. Countries are urged to submit their theme-proposals and inform about the sections they are willing to judge by 15 November 2018. The contact person is the WCCT committee spokesman, Georgy Evseev, 10wcct@gmail.com (same email address as in […]
The 42nd World Chess Solving Championship brought the titles and new records to Piotr Murdzia and his team of Poland. Polish solvers became World champions for the 10th consecutive time, while Murdzia himself celebrated 8th individual win! The decade of Polish domination was rounded by the individual silver of the previous champion Kacper Piorun, after […]
04.09.2018. 42nd WCSC, day 1: Preliminary individual results | Preliminary team results Open Solving tournament in the frames of the 61st WCCC: Final results | Problems | Solutions | Solving norms | Statistics 05.09.2018. Machine Gun Results (director: Borislav Gadjanski) | Problems 05.09.2018. 42nd WCSC: Preliminary individual results | Preliminary team results | Problems | Solutions | Preliminary solving normsPlease […]
01.09.2018. In the Metropol hotel, on the beautiful lake of Ohrid, 61st WCCC was opened with musical program and welcome speeches. As a part of the opening ceremony, the results of the pre-congress competitions were announced. The medals, certificates and cups were given to the winners of the 3rd YCCC (on the photo: Alexey Popov, […]
The concluding information related to the 60th WCCC is published on the relevant page: B U L L E T I N 60th WCCC and 41th WCSC (pdf) Minutes & Annexes (pdf)
