The preliminary results in section F – Selfmates (PDF) of the 8th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2020 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section.Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
The preliminary results in section E – Helpmates (PDF) of the 8th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2020 are published and can be found above the Announcement, in RESULTS section.Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
The International Solving Contest – ISC – next year will take place on Sunday January 24th 2021. The event is happening simultaneously in all participating countries. The name of the locally appointed controller must reach the central controllers Axel Steinbrink and Luc Palmans by e-mail no later than December 31st 2020: axel.steinbrink@gmx.de / palmans.luc@skynet.be I hope that even more local controllers will use the official WFCC […]
Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2020 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! Due to the Corona pandemic no rated solving tournament occurred in the 2nd quarter 2020. Therefore the rating of all solvers remains unchanged.
Due to the Corona pandemic all WSC tournaments since March 2020 had to be cancelled or postponed. To enable those countries to have a WSC tournament in the current cycle the WFCC Solving Committee has decided the following one-time rule change which is also supported by the members of the WFCC presidium: The cycle 2019/2020 […]
The WCCC 2020 organizing team had an extensive meeting during the weekend and we concluded that the WCCC 2020 should be canceled. We informed the Presidium and all members agreed with our decision. Our main concern is that nobody can really predict what the situation will be with regard to the COVID-19 in October both […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2016-18 section A are ready!1446 twomovers were submitted and 1236 out of them scored at least 4.5 points, a percentage of 85.5% that is very good for such a popular section. 273 compositions (22.2%) are selected — 55 out of them qualified from the WCCI. The judges worked hard, fast […]
WFCC is glad to announce the 11th 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 […]
“Special times require special measures. About the origin and the rules of the first (and hopefully the last) Lockdown Solving Tournament you can read in an earlier article. The response was very nice: 67 solvers took part last Saturday. The level was quite high: 6 out of the top 10; some 40 out of the […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2016-18 section H are ready!As already mentioned in the previous cycle, retro composers have always been careful to select their highest-quality compositions to be considered for the album and the 2016-18 cycle could not be an exception. 90.5% of the submitted entries scored at least 4.5 points and 35.8% […]
