WCCC 2017, Bulletin

The Bulletin of WCCC 2017, in Dresden, is published:

https://wccc2017.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/bulletin-1.pdf

WCCC 2017 Dresden

In 2017 the World Congress for Chess Composition will be held in Dresden, Germany.

The announcement here : https://wccc2017.de/

Composition tourneys:
http://www.dieschwalbe.de/kompositionsturniere.htm#tt222

Review from Belgade

As we had said [http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.gr/2016/06/59th-world-congress-of-chess.html], from Saturday 30/07/2016 thru Saturday 06/08/2016, in Belgrade of Serbia was held the World Congress for Chess Composition (WCCC).

It contained OPEN solving contest, World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) and many Composition Tourneys.

The results are (usually) published in one bulletin pdf file [link?] when they are prepared. Until then, one can find at the official page of the congress [http://wccc2016.matplus.net/index.php] the information which is collected and posted.

The closing ceremony is here : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNFsm7tQH10].

I would like to say that the Metropol Palace Hotel is excellent, and the personnel of the Serbian organisation committee was very kind and helpful.
Belgrade is a green city with large parks and also a large river Savvas meeting the larger river Danube.
The closing evening party in the river boat was sheer magic.
Here you may see some videos : 1, 2, 3

The awards from all the composition tourneys are not yet known, but we are glad that the Greek Kostas Prentos (USA) continues to collect first prizes and bottles of drinks, (Champagne and Sake tourneys).
Update : There was a Commendation for Manolas Emmanuel (GRE) in the 5 days Tourney, Group A, orthodox two-movers.

59th World Congress of Chess Composition, Belgrade 2016

The 59th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) will be hosted by Serbia, in Belgrade, from July 30 to August 06, 2016.

The official internet page is http://wccc2016.matplus.net/index.php

Here is a presentation by the Serbian Committee [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS2ZiaveXgQ].

You can find there information about registration (now that I am writing this post, there are 197 participants), about hotels, about schedule of events, etc.

There are solving contests, one open [http://wccc2016.matplus.net/solvers.php]
and the 40th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) [http://wccc2016.matplus.net/wcsc.php],

and composing tourneys [for example http://wccc2016.matplus.net/unof.php].

There also organised, for the first time, contests for young solvers and composers, under 18 years old.

Next big international events

12th International Solving Contest (ISC) on Sunday 24.1.2016, directors Axel Steinbrink and Luc Palmans. It was clarified that participants in the category C (young solvers) should have been born after 24th of January 2003.

12th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC) in Athens, Greece 15-17 April 2016.

59th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 40th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) in Belgrade, Serbia 30 July – 6 August 2016

Results from the World Congress

Results from the proceedings of the World Congress on Chess Composition have started to appear.

Preliminary results of the OPEN solving contest [http://www.wccc2015.com/?open-results].

Greek solvers : Nikos Mendrinos is in place 38 and Nikos Sidiropoulos is in place 69.

Preliminary results from the World Championship on solution WCSC http://www.wccc2015.com/?wcsc-results-first-day
Greek solvers : Nikos Mendrinos is in place 52 and Nikos Sidiropoulos is in place 54. Greece is in place 16.

During the final second day, the Greek solvers tried harder : Nikos Mendrinos is ranked in place 43 from 85 and Nikos Sidiropoulos in place 46. Greece is in place 16 from 19.
http://www.wccc2015.com/?wcsc-results-final

The bulletin of the event is published here : http://www.wccc2015.com/docs/congress_bulletin.pdf

It contains results from composing tourneys, in which the Greek composers Kostas Prentos and Themis Argyrakopoulos have got distinctions.

WCCC 2015

The 58th World Congress on Chess Composition (WCCC) and
the 39th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC)
will be held 01-08 August 2015 in Ostroda, Poland.

The official site of this event : http://www.wccc2015.com/

The composing tourneys have started to be announced here.

1st TT Riga Black Balsam :
http://juliasfairies.com/tourneys/announcements/jf-1st-balsam/

8th ARVES Jenever Tourney :
http://www.wccc2015.com/docs/8tharvesjeneverty2015announcement.pdf

WCCC 57, Berne

Next Saturday we will be in Bern, Switzerland, for the 57th World Congress of Chess Composition, WCCC.

There will be solving contests and many composing tourneys.
The schedule is here: http://www.kunstschach.ch/wccc2014/docs/WCCC_Schedule.pdf

For the solving contests (there is one OPEN solving contest and also the world championship WCSC) you must have physical presence in the rooms of WCCC, but for the composing contests this is not necessary.
There are tourneys that accept entries from all over the world via e-mail, as well others only for WCCC participants. Details here.

Best wishes for success to solvers, to composers, to organizers!

World Congress of Chess Composition, Bern 2014

The 57th World Congress of Chess Composition, (WCCC), will be held in Bern, Switzerland, in the week August 23 -30, 2014.
During the Congress, the 38th World Chess Solving Championship, (WCSC), and many Composing Contests will be held also.

For details, you may visit the official site
http://www.kunstschach.ch/wccc2014/home.html

You can make a reservation until 30-VI-2014.

World Championship in Solving, for Teams and Individuals

For the world championship of solving chess problems WCSC, which is organized during WCCC, the full results are published here : http://www.wfcc.ch/competitions/solving/wcsc13/

Team results :
1) Poland, 178,5 points in 600 minutes.
2) Germany, 162.5 in 635.
3) Serbia, 159.25 in609.

The Greece (71st Konidaris with 30 points, 44th Mendrinos with 56.5, 75th Fougiaxis with 26) is ranked 18th (in 19 teams) with 98.5 in 680 (the two best results are included).

Individual results :
1) Murdzia, Piotr, POL, GM, 85.75 points in 332 minutes
2) Zude, Arno, GER, GM, 84.5 in 281
3) Piorun, Kacper, POL, GM, 83.0 in 302
4) Mista, Aleksander, POL, FM, 82.25 in  306
5) Paavilainen, Jorma, FIN, GM, 80.0 in 360
6) Kovacevic, Marjan, SRB, GM, 79.75 in  319

Today World Congress of Chess Composition is starting

Today, in Batumi of Georgia : http://wccc2013batumi.ge/schedule.html

Participants : http://wccc2013batumi.ge/Participants.pdf

Wishes for success!

56th World Congress of Chess Composition, 37th World Chess Solving Champioship

The 56th World Congress of Chess Composition, WCCC, together with the 37th World Chess Solving Champioship, WCSC, will take place this year, September 21-28 2013, in Batumi of Georgia at the Black Sea.

There are participants from many countries, as you may see at the site of the congress.

The composers who would like to submit entries to the composing tourneys, may visit the page Composition. Some tourneys are only for the participants, others are open for all the composers of the world. See below

David Gurgenidze-60 JT,
for studies with Theme "White with a single minor piece (N,B) in the final makes positional draw against a rook and a minor piece (N,B). Pawn should be absent in the final position".

Gia Nadaraeishvili MT,
for studies with Theme "White with a materials rook + night (bishop) in the final makes positional draw against a queen + rook. Pawn should be absent in the final position".

Results from Kobe 2012, Solvers

In the Open Solving Tournament we had the following results:

1 Comay, Ofer, ISR, 50.5
2 Limontas, Martynas, LTU, 49
3 Kovacevic, Marjan, SRB, 47.5

The full list of the participants and their ranking is here.

In the World Chess Solving Championship the first teams were...

1 POLAND (Mista, Alexander - Murdzia, Piotr - Piorun, Kacper)
2 GERMANY (Pfannkuche, Michael - Tummes, Boris - Zude, Arno)
3 RUSSIA (Feoktistov, Aleksandr - Mukoseev, Anatoly - Selivanov, Andrey)

The full list with the ranking of countries and their results is here.
In the same page you will find the individual results for World Champion of Solving Chess Problems. The first three were...

1 Murdzia, Piotr, POL (GM, 2766.89)
2 Zude, Arno, GER (GM, 2622.26)
3 Piorun, Kacper, POL (GM, 2650.68).

Composition Tourneys, WCCC in Kobe

The first declarations of composition tourneys have started to appear, for the 55th WCCC (World Congress of Chess Composition) which is about to begin for 2012 in Kobe, Japan. Simultaneously, there will be held the 36th WCSC (World Chess Solving Championship).
Official web-page : http://wccc2012kobe.com/
.

World congress for Chess Compositions

The official page for this year's World Congress for Chess Compositions (55 WCCC-2012) and World Chess Solving Championship (36 WCSC-2012), which will be held in Kobe Japan, is now operational :
http://wccc2012kobe.com/index.html

Official results from Jesi

In Jesi, Italy, was organised this August the 54th World Congress on Chess Composition (WCCC) together with the 35th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC), (see here the web page of the organisers and here the web page of the World Federation on Chess Composition (WFCC)).

In these web pages you can find the official Bulletin, where one can see the final results of the Solving and Composing contests. For the composition contests we have already posted a first part (here) and for the solving contests we have the following :

(A) Top results of the Open Solving Contest

1. PIORUN Kacper, 60, 169'
2. EVSEEV Georgy, 60, 176'
3. COMAY Ofer, 59.5, 134'
4. Van BEERS Eddy, 59, 178'
5. NUNN John, 57, 174'
6. MUKOSEEV Anatoly, 56.5, 169'
7. VUCKOVIC Bojan, 56.5, 180'
8. TUMMES Boris, 55, 174'
9. MESTEL Jonathan, 54, 172'
10. MURDZIA Piotr, 54, 177'
...
15 MENDRINOS Nikos, 51.5, 178'
27-28 PRENTOS Kostas, 45.5, 180'
92 MANOLAS Emmanuel, 5, 180'

93 solvers have participated.

(B) Top personal results of the World Chess Solving Championship

1. PIORUN Kacper (POL), 83, 337'
2. NUNN Jphn (GBR), 80, 288'
3. MURDZIA Piotr (POL), 80, 319'
4. ZUDE Arno (DEU), 77, 300'
5. Van BEERS Eddy (BEL), 76, 314'
6. PAAVILAINEN Jorma (FIN), 76, 323'
7. PODINIC Vladimir (SRB), 75.5, 307'
8. EVSEEV Georgy (RUS), 75, 337'
9. SELIVANOV Andrey (RUS), 74, 340'
10. POGORELOV Volodymyr (UKR), 72, 320'
...
24. PRENTOS Kostas (GRE), 65, 330'
44. MENDRINOS Nikos (GRE), 56, 358'
76. MANOLAS Emmanuel (GRE), 18, 321'

83 solvers have participated.

(C) Top team results of the World Chess Solving Championship

1. POLAND, 164, 631'
2. UNITED KINGDOM, 154, 629'
3. SERBIA, 152, 602'
4. UKRAINE, 151, 650'
5. RUSSIA, 151, 656'
6. FINLAND, 148, 663'
7. ISRAEL, 145, 625'
8. BELGIUM, 140, 644'
9. GERMANY, 136.5, 664'
...
15. GREECE, 122, 688' (Prentos Kostas, Mendrinos Nikos, Manolas Emmanuel)

20 national teams have participated.

(D) Presentation of the games and solution of problems by John Nunn

This year's second Champion presented details and photographs from the Solving contests and described the method of solving some problems in two articles in the web page ChessBase.com. He writes elegantly and his observations are very penetrating.
Read the Presentation and the Solutions.

Some photographs from Jesi are also posted here.