Last year, the solving committee worked on a set of guidelines for the directors of rated solving tournaments. The preliminary text was accepted at the last WCCC in Vilnius. Julia Vysotska wrote a Russian translation, for which we are very grateful. Guidelines for solving tournaments: English | Russian We hope that tournament directors take a […]
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2019 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published – including the first solving tournament with rating calculations according the new rating system! 9 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2019 are included: Open Solving Tournament Yaroslavl 2019, Open Tournament to Launch Chess Compositions in Memory of Leo Kapusty (1919-1990), 2nd Ukrainian Cup 2019, 27th Czech […]
4th YCCC attracted 54 entries by 25 participants from 9 countries! Announcement English/Russian | Results (PDF) | Photo gallery The Youth Chess Composing Challenge (YCCC) is an individual international competition first introduced by the Serbian Chess Problem Society in 2016. Since 2018, the YCCC has become a joint project of the newly established Youth Committee of the World Federation for Chess […]
By Ryszard Królikowski, the 43rd WCSC director: “The 43rd WCSC competition brought a tensed and exciting fight for the highest places. Finally, Piotr Górski (POL) won, having the most consistent results during all six rounds. Besides, he fulfilled the 4th GM norm and obtained the desired title. He is the first World Champion without an international title in […]
26 member countries were present. United Arab Emirates was welcomed as a new member country of the Federation. Neal Turner was appointed as the new secretary. WCCT: The themes of the 11th WCCT were selected. Countries are urged to inform the spokesman Georgy Evseev, 10wcct@gmail.com (same email address as in the previous tournament) and the […]
After a fascinating race in the last rounds the Russian European Champion 2019, junior solver Danila Pavlov (RUS) has won the 4th World Solving Cup. There have been 19 tournaments including the Open Solving of the ECSC and the WCCC with total of 85 World Cup points winning solvers.Final top five: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 139 […]
23.08.2019 The results of the official tournaments: 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge (the bulletin of 33 pages) The Official 5 days Composing Tourney’s preliminary results Quick Composing Tourney’s #2 preliminary results Quick Composing Tourney’s h#2 results 22.08.2019 FINAL results of the 43rd WCSC problems | solutions | final individual results | juniors results | seniors results […]
The organizers of 62nd WCCC & 43rd WCSC remind you that you should make your reservation until 1st of June! See the Invitation announced on the 5th of February, 2019. Organization: The Lithuanian Chess Problem Society.Email of the event: vsatkus@yahoo.comOfficial website: www.sachmatija.puslapiai.lt/wccc2019/Contact: Vidmantas Satkus
The 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2019 / 4ый Юношеский турнир по составлению 2019, organized by the members of newly formed Youth Committee, offers themes for three genres: #2, h#2 and endgame. The age limit for participants is extended to U23 – for all young composers born 1996 and later. Another important change is introduction […]
The organizers of 14th ECSC remind you that you should make your reservation until the 11th of March! See the Invitation announced on the 6th of November,2018. REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/forms/i8nCjbdGfDMlLEUt2 Organization: Nikos & George Mendrinos in co-operation with the Greek Chess Composition Committee. The email of the event: ecsc2019@gmail.comOfficial website: http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.gr/
