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Solving WSC

World Solving Cup 2022/2023 – Helsinki 18.02.2023

44th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2023 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 18 | Winner: Dolf Wissmann (NED) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU) and ex aequo Jorma Paavilainen (FIN – Finnish Champion!)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2220.50 | WSC category: 9Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 (+10), 2. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 17 points (+4), 3. Arno Zude (GER) 16 points, 4. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 13 points […]

ISC Solving

ISC 2023 – FINAL results

19th International Solving Contest (ISC) 29th January 2023 We had 38 tournaments in 26 countries and 601 solvers (+15 unofficial solvers in cat-3) – 181 solvers in cat-1, 172 solvers in cat-2 and 248 solvers in cat-3. Thank you to all local controllers for their excellent work and good cooperation and congratulations to the winners. If you […]

ECSC Solving

16th European Chess Solving Championship

Slovak Organisation for Chess Composition is honoured to invite European national teams and individual solvers to attend the 16th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC). The ECSC will be held from Friday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 4th at the Falkensteiner Hotel, Pilárikova ulica 5, 811 03 Bratislava. Activities: ECSC, 1st and 2nd day (director Marko Klasinc, Slovenia) | […]

Composing Other Solving

International Day of Chess Composition

In 2007, our organization accepted the idea of the famous Ukrainian Grandmaster of Chess Composition Valentin Rudenko (1938-2016) to name January 4th as the International Day of Chess Composition. According to the proposal, on January 4th 1869, the Czech (Bohemian at that time) magazine “Svetozor” published an article by Antonín König (1836-1911) where he described chess composition as an […]

Other Solving WCCC WFCC Meetings

Solvers’ ratings January 1st 2023

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2023 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.10 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2022 are included: 31st Kedainiai Cup 2022, 37th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2022, 27th Belgian Championship 2022, 31st Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2022 Cat A, 3rd Branko Babic Memorial 2022, 4th  Ukrainian Cup 2022, Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2022, 45th World Chess Solving Championship 2022, 4th Pavle Orlov Memorial 2022, 7th Greek […]

Composing ECSC ISC Other Solving WCCC WCCC/WCSC WCCI WCCT WFCC Meetings WSC

Happy New Year 2023!

The year behind was crowded with official composing and solving events, thanks to the judges and organizers who worked hard in 2022. January brought 18th International Solving Contest, another successful edition run by ever passionate Axel Steinbrink. In March, the Solving Committee has made another step forward, introducing the very informative Solving Portal on our […]

Composing FIDE Albums

FIDE Album 2016-2018 is available

The thickest ever FIDE Album 2016-2018 (an official selection of the world’s best and most representative chess compositions) has been published. 912 pages, 1984 diagrams, 306 authors, 1.6 kg. Comments, indexes, registers, statistics in English.Hard-cover blue clothbound. Price 54 euro. Orders preferably at fidealbum.com (or by email to peter.gvozdjak@gmail.com). Sample pages available as a PDF file there.

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