Category: WCCT

The claims of the 11^th WCCT are published on the page of the tournament.
Introduction | Section A | Section B | Section C | Section D | Section E | Section F | Section G | Section H | The whole document

Important notes:
1. The claims concern only formal soundness, comparison problems and misprints. Claims regarding thematic contents and quality of expression or construction were not allowed in this phase of the tournament. After consultation with the spokesman of the WCCT committee, matters related to conventions were also left to the opinion and evaluation of the judging countries.
2. Replies to claims should be sent to the tournament director Harry Fougiaxis by March 1st, 2022.
3. Only the appointed national team leaders may send replies.
4. The judging countries should start the judgment process immediately, in order to save time. The  judgments should be received no later than June 1st, 2022.
My warm wishes for 2022, hopefully free of viruses and restrictions! – Harry Fougiaxis

Update of 06.01.2022: The PDF files of the introduction, section D, section E and of the whole document have been updated with a few additional comments. Please download the files again!

Update of 14.01.2022: The PDF files of section H and of the whole document have been updated with the notification that H29 is cooked. Please download the files again!

Harry Fougiaxis, the director of the 11^th World Chess Composition Tournament, presents the ENTRIES BOOKLET of 8 sections with introduction (available from the 11^th WCCT page): Introduction  | Section A  | Section B  | Section C  | Section D & Section D (PGN)  | Section E  | Section F  | Section G  | Section H

35 countries participate with 86 compositions in A, 75 in B, 67 in C, 74 in D, 92 in E, 71 in F, 54 in G and 79 in H.
Update 11.09.2021: The PGN file of section D (endgame studies) has been updated with comments from some countries. Please download again.
Update 02.09.2021: The file of section H (proofgames) has been updated as the diagram and the solution of H78 were incorrect. Please download again.
Update 01.09.2021: The file of section C (moremovers) has been updated as the solution of C56 was incomplete. Please download again.

Important notes:

1. The teams may send claims before December 1^st, 2021 to the tournament Director, Harry Fougiaxis (loyaldragon@gmail.com).
2. Only appointed team leaders may send claims.
3. Only claims concerning obvious misprints and errors, soundness and anticipation will be accepted. Claims about the thematic contents or technical improvement will be ignored.
4. The judging countries should start judgment process immediately, in order to save time.

We are issuing the WCCT-11 first circular letter. It includes the list of registered countries, errata in the announcement and a set of questions and answers.
You may download the PDF file from WCCT-11 official page.
Warm regards, happy composing! – Harry Fougiaxis, WCCT-11 Director

WFCC is glad to announce the 11^th World Chess Composition Tournament. Of course we are not so glad that we do this with such a great delay compared to the original schedule. We had to overcome several obstacles in the process: (1) the committee members needed considerable time to analyze the proposed themes and agree on the wording; sometimes the discussion was even heated and seemed it was close to a dead end, (2) the flow of the work was not always smooth with committee members losing their motivation for weeks, (3) poor response of the countries that volunteered to judge (we managed to complete the list just a few days ago!), (4) the initially appointed director stepped down for personal reasons, etc.

The director of the tournament is Harry Fougiaxis. The deadline for registration of the countries is July 15^th, 2020. The closing date for submission of the entries is July 1^st, 2021. Announcement in PDF.

Happy composing!

Final Award booklet of the 10^th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is now available for download. It contains all 489 awarded problems (from 258 authors) together with all the judges’ comments and some statistical information.

The 10^th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is completed. In total 38 countries participated in the tournament with 684 compositions in eight sections. The winner of the 10^th WCCT is Russia, ahead of Ukraine and Germany. All 38 participating countries received points.
See the Preliminary Results of the 10^th WCCT and also the Preliminary Award in PDF for download.

There are two documents added on the 10th WCCT page: CLAIMS has all the information of claims and replies in a single document, but REPLIES TO CLAIMS contains replies only. 

The document with the Claims (PDF, 433Kb) was added on the 10th WCCT page. The deadline for replies to claims is prolonged to January 10th, 2017.

Georgy Evseev, the director of the 10^th World Chess Composition Tournament, presents the ENTRIES BOOKLET of 8 sections with introduction (available from the 10^th WCCT page): Introduction (55 kb) | Section A (765 kb) | Section B (327 kb) | Section C (338 kb) | Section D (417 kb) | Section E (366 kb) | Section F (334 kb) | Section G (342 kb) | Section H (392 kb)

Important notes:

1. The teams may send claims before October 1st, 2016 to the tournament Director, Georgy Evseev (10wcct@gmail.com).
2. Only appointed team leaders may send claims.
3. Only claims concerning obvious misprints and errors, soundness and anticipation will be accepted. Claims about the thematic contents or technical improvement will be ignored.
4. The judging countries should start judgment process immediately, in order to save time.

The 1^st Clarification document of the 10^th WCCT is published and available in PDF and MS Word formats from Competitions/Composing/10th WCCT page. The clarifications are related to sections A-Twomovers, B-Threemovers,  G-Fairies, H-Retros.