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WSC

Harrow on the Hill (London) 17.02.2024 – World Solving Cup 2023/2024

Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 31 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) and Abdelaziz Onkoud (FRA – 3rd IM norm).British Champion, again David Hodge (4th Place) before Jonathan Mestel (5th Place).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2447.89 | WSC category: 5Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 69 points (+27), 2. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points (+23), 3. Roland Ott (SUI) 29 points (+10), 4. David […]

ISC

ISC 2024 – FINAL results

20th International Solving Contest (ISC) 21th January 2024 We had 41 tournaments in 26 countries and 669 solvers from 46 countries (24 unofficial solvers in cat-3) – 171 solvers in cat-1, 236 solvers in cat-2 and 262 solvers in cat-3. Thanks to all local controllers for their excellent work and good cooperation and congratulations to the winners. […]

ECSC

New Closing Date for ECSC Registration

The new closing date for the 17. ECSC (https://www.ecsc2024.de) to be held at Hagen, Germany at April 19-21, 2024 is March 15, 2024. Entry fee is 60 EUR for registration and payment received until March 15, 75 EUR later (limited availability). For registration the Open Solving tourney only the fee is 20 EUR. One more […]

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Happy Chess Composition Day, with the 1st OSCY launch!

Since 2007, our community has been marking January 4th as the International Day of Chess Composition, inspired by an article from 155 years ago, where chess composition was declared a kind of art. Today we are doing it in the contemporary spirit, launching the 1st WFCC Online Solving Challenge for Youth (OSCY). The 1st OSCY unites efforts of […]

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Solvers’ ratings January 1st 2024

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2024 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.8 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2023 are included: 21st Greek Chess Solving Championship 2023, 32nd Kedainiai Cup 2023, 38th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2023, 4th Branko Babic Memorial 2023, 28th Belgian Solving Championship 2023, 32nd Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2023, Solving Championship of Romania 2023, 8th Greek […]

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Happy New Year 2024!

The winners of the WFCC Christmas Gallery Contest 2023 Group A M. Witztum & E. Navon 1. Place CGC 2023/A (133 points) Živan Šušulić2. Place CGC 2023-A (125 points) Andrey Frolkin3. Place CGC 2023-A (113 points) Group B Udo Degener1. Place CGC 2023-B (114 points) Jorma Paavilainen2. Place CGC 2023-B (104.5 points) Alexey Gasparyan3. Place […]

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Merry Christmas!

Dear composers, solvers, judges, organizers, volunteers, and all lovers of chess composition, have a Merry Christmas!For those of you who are not putting aside chess thoughts during winter holidays, we offered a chance to compose, solve, analyze and judge some original helpmates, inspired by different Christmas joys and symbols. Our friendly Christmas Gallery Contest has […]

WCCC/WCSC

Invitation to Jurmala: 66. WCCC & 47. 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: […]

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WFCC Christmas Gallery Contest

Here is a friendly contest for everybody: join the WFCC Xmas Gallery Contest with your original helpmate problems inspired by Christmas! You may send up to two original helpmates to the Gallery Director Kenneth Solja (kenneth.solja@gmail.com) till 22nd December. All received problems, with hidden solutions, and without the names of the composers, will be published on […]

ECSC

17th European Chess Solving Championship

Invitation to the 17th European Chess Solving Championship Celebrating 100 years of Schwalbe, deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach e.V. Location: Hagen (Westphalia, near Dortmund, Germany)Date: Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 April 2024Venue: FernUniversität Hagen, Informatikzentrum Official website | Invitation in PDF | Please REGISTER by February 15, 2024

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