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:
The first version of the online Composing Calendar has been published on the WFCC website (Competitions -> Composing -> Calendar). It presents the formal tournaments (A-H sections) and the informal ones (I section), in chronological order of their deadlines, with columns reporting possible themes, judges and directors, as well as links to the announcements and
The content of the official website of the Batumi WCCC 2023 was removed by the organizer. So, the information published there disappeared. However, thanks to Roland Ott, who has collected all awards of official and unofficial composing tournaments with the help of foreign composers (a special thanks to Jorma Paavilainen!) we have them published in
WFCC online Meeting, 8th November 2023 30 Member Countries took part in the WFCC online Meeting that was mostly devoted to discussion about the future WFCC events and the host of the 66th WCCC and 47th WCSC 2024. At the beginning, the FIDE Album Committee spokesman Harry Fougiaxis announced the new title-holders in chess composition:
31 member countries were present, 4 of them via Zoom connection. Armenia was welcomed as the 44th member country of the Federation. Upcoming events 2024: 20th International Solving Contest (ISC) on 21 January 2024, central organizers Luc Palmans and Arvydas Mockus. 17th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC) in Hagen, Germany 19-21 April 2024. 66th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 47th World Chess
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2023 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.Only 4 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2023 are included: 5th Ukrainian Cup 2023, 31st Czech Chess Solving Championship 2023, Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2023, 46th World Chess Solving Championship 2023.Ranking of the top ten solvers: Ural Khasanov (FID) moved up
(06.09.2023) The RESULTS of Solving Show competition, director Vidmantas Satkus, 28 participants.
Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2023 | 17th and last tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 77 | Winner: junior Ural Khasanov (FID) ahead of Eddy Van Beers (BEL), junior Danila Pavlov (FID), Kacper Piorun (POL) and Aleksey Popov (FID)GM norms of juniors Ural Khasanov and Nikita Ushakov (both FID), 2nd FM norm of junior Mihnea Costachi (ROU) who gets the FM title and also 7th FM
(05-06.09.2023) 46th World Chess Solving Championship 2023 Main Judge: Steinbrink, Axel | Assistant: Klasinc, Marko | Problems Selected by: Steinbrink, Axel (07.09. 15:00) The FINAL results of the 46.WCSC 2023 announced! FINAL RESULTS: Individual | Team | Senior | Junior | Women Problem difficulty | Norms | Problems | Solutions (06.09. 15:50) “In case of
(05.09.2023, 15:30) The FINAL RESULTS of Open Solving tournament are announced and can be found on WSC calendar (click on “R” of the open in the calendar – there are also the norms and WSC-points)! (04.09.2023) Open Solving tournament. “We decided that solvers who did not write tin the first study the black moves 6…Qf1+
