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HAPPY CHESS COMPOSITION DAY, WITH THE 1ST OSCY LAUNCH!

  By admin 04/01/2024 04/01/2024 Other

Since 2007, our community has been marking January 4th as the International Day
of Chess Composition, inspired by an article from 155 years ago, where chess
composition was declared a kind of art. Today we are doing it in the
contemporary spirit, launching the 1st WFCC Online Solving Challenge for Youth
(OSCY).



The 1st OSCY unites efforts of very different generations. You may see here the
OSCY video promotion made by the young Anirudh Daga, who also contributed to
some elements of design.

And here is the Press Release text by our senior member Brian Cook, the heart
and soul of the whole project:

As the WFCC announce their new bi-monthly Online Solving Challenge for Youth
(OSCY), never has there been a better time for young chess players from 5 to 21
years old to test their skills at chess problem solving. It isn’t unusual to
find that those who have taken the plunge converting their modest FIDE ratings
into much higher solver ratings, earning norms and titles in the process. Free
of the need for detailed knowledge of openings and strategy, their exceptional
tactical skills have flourished with astonishing results. Rather than
solving/composing a fast evolving web of typical threats & traps set by/for
their opponents, solvers are generally confronted with a few won positions
(often composed by GMs of Chess Composition) of greater complexity and/or
featuring an unusual concept. Greatest of the many success stories in this
regard are GMs of Solving:

Danila Pavlov – 21 year-old 3 x World Champion and No.1 (rated 2820 for solving,
2361 by FIDE), Ural Khasanov – 17 year-old World No.5 (solving at around 1000
rating points higher than he plays), not to mention 14 year old Anna Shukhman,
World No.1 for women.

Full OSCY details are provided at the tournament website along with  much of
what needs to be known by beginners PLUS World Champion coaching and, except for
<€10 for coaching, it’s all FREE. See the WFCC Announcement.

As Online and @Home solving has become more popular (at both grass-roots and
elite levels), a smooth pathway is emerging from informal to the many
rated/physical tournaments at which titles are earned. So, please give OSCY a
try and avoid missing out on what may be your personal chess paradise.

NOTES:

 1. Unusual pieces such as ‘nightriders’, ‘grasshoppers’, etc are not indulged
    in OSCY. They remain strictly for the ‘fairies’
 2. For anyone pressed for time – the home of our QuickStart Guide

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SOLVERS’ RATINGS JANUARY 1ST 2024

  By admin 02/01/2024 02/01/2024 Other

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2024 produced by the Solving Tournament
Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
8 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2023 are included: 21st Greek Chess Solving
Championship 2023, 32nd Kedainiai Cup 2023, 38th Open Swiss Solving Championship
2023, 4th Branko Babic Memorial 2023, 28th Belgian Solving Championship 2023,
32nd Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2023, Solving Championship of Romania 2023,
8th Greek Chess Solving Cup 2023.
Ranking of the top ten solvers (unchanged): 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 2820.30, 2.
Georgy Evseev (FID) 2747.29, 3. Kacper Piorun (POL) 2715.44, 4. Piotr Murdzia
(POL) 2678.75, 5. Ural Khasanov (FID) 2649.49, 6. John Nunn (GBR) 2629.68, 7.
Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 2616.38, 8. Aleksey Popov (FID) 2575.00, 9. Kevinas
Kuznecovas (LTU) 2574.54, 10. Marko Filipović (CRO) 2564.95.
Largest five gains: junior Alexandru Mihalcescu, ROU (+29.23), Wouter van Rijn,
NED (+21.86), junior Ioannis Kollias, GRE (+13.70), Martynas Limontas, LTU
(+12.42), Jakub Marciniszyn, POL (+12.34).

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!

  By admin 31/12/2023 31/12/2023 Other

The winners of the WFCC Christmas Gallery Contest 2023

Group A

M. Witztum & E. Navon
1. Place CGC 2023/A (133 points)

Živan Šušulić
2. Place CGC 2023-A (125 points)

Andrey Frolkin
3. Place CGC 2023-A (113 points)

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Group B

Udo Degener
1. Place CGC 2023-B (114 points)

Jorma Paavilainen
2. Place CGC 2023-B (104.5 points)

Alexey Gasparyan
3. Place CGC 2023-B (103.5 points)

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Group C

Zlatko Mihajloski
1. Place CGC 2023-C (124 points)

Janos Koczian
2. Place CGC 2023-C (121 points)

Henry Tanner
3. Place CGC 2023-C (116 points)

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Happy New Year 2024 to all friends of chess composition!

There will be many challenges for chess composers, and some of those you may
find in the online WFCC Composing Calendar, established at the beginning of this
month. It is still in the process of completing, and you can contribute to it by
sending links to the announcements and awards to the given address.

The last tournament of 2023 was the friendly WFCC Christmas Gallery Contest,
announced on 09.12. In less than 2 weeks it attracted 34 authors from 17
countries, with 43 compositions. They were all published in our Christmas post,
and the solutions with comments followed there on 27.12.

Till 29.12 we got 37 awards in Sections: A (14 awards), B (9), and C (14). The
suggested system of collective judging worked well thanks to CGC director
Kenneth Solja, WFCC webmaster Julia Vysotska and the next 23 judges from 15
countries:

Hauke Reddmann (Section A), Vlaicu Crisan (A&C), Ralf Kraetschmer (C), Andrey
Frolkin (B&C), Udo Degener (A), Kenneth Solja (A), Mario Parrinello (B&C),
Srećko Radović (B&C), Wilfried Neef (A&C), Mikhail Shalashov (B&C), Aleksandr
Feoktistov (A&C), Bela Majoros (B&C), Nikola Petković (A), Janos Csak (C), Živan
Šušulić (B), Alexey Gasparyan (A&C), Piotr Gorski (A, B & C), Zlatko Mihajloski
(A), Jorma Paavilainen (A&C), Henry Tanner (A&B), Menachem Witztum (C), Brennan
Price (A), and Viktoras Paliulionis (A&B).

Altogether, the CGC 2023 engaged 36 contributors (composers + judges) from 19
countries, and inspired 43 Christmas compositions. We hope you will like the
winners of all 3 sections published here, as well as many of the remaining
entries in the Final placements (PDF).

As Solving Tournaments Calendar shows, there will be a lot of fun and challenge
on the table already in January, starting from the 1st WFCC Online Solving
Challenge for Youth (14.01). A week later (21.01), the 20th International
Solving Contest will unite participants from many countries around the world.
February will bring the first 2024 competitions of the World Solving Cup
2023-24, simultaneously in Helsinki and London (17.02). The highlights of the
solving year will be 17th ECSC in Hagen (19-21.04) and during 66th WCCC in
Jurmala (27.07-03.08), including the 47th WCSC.

Have a fruitful, joyful and peaceful 2024! – Marjan Kovačević, WFCC President

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

  By admin 24/12/2023 27/12/2023 Other

Dear composers, solvers, judges, organizers, volunteers, and all lovers of chess
composition, have a Merry Christmas!
For those of you who are not putting aside chess thoughts during winter
holidays, we offered a chance to compose, solve, analyze and judge some original
helpmates, inspired by different Christmas joys and symbols.

Our friendly Christmas Gallery Contest has attracted not less than 43 entries in
less than 2 weeks – hopefully a sign of your good mood!

(27.12.23) Now you can see the solutions in the PDF file.

The next phase will be judging, and you will be the judges, if you want it.

The contest for the most popular compositions will be held in 3 sections,
separated according to the length:

->A) h#1.5-2 (12 entries)

->B) h#2.5-3 (16 entries)

->C) h#3.5-n (12 entries)


We invite everybody to take the roles of judges, by ranking these anonymous
entries and marking them. The scales for marking will be from 12 (the best) to 1
inside the Groups A & C, and from 16 (the best) to 1 inside the Group B. The
same mark may be given to more than one entry.

All composers who sent their original entries are invited to mark the problems
in the group(s) where they didn’t take part!

The marks should be sent by 29th December at latest, to the email
address webmaster@wfcc.ch.

As you could see in the WFCC Composing Calendar, this event was announced in
Section E, for orthodox helpmates only. The entries D1, D2 & D3 use unorthodox
elements and will not take part in the contest, but that will not deprive you
from solving and enjoying them here, in the section D.

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INVITATION TO JURMALA: 66. WCCC & 47. WCSC

  By admin 18/12/2023 19/12/2023 WCCC/WCSC

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: Jurmala, Beach resort of Latvia

The WCCC venue – Hotel Jūrmala SPA – a 4 star hotel, one of the largest spa
hotels in the Baltics. The hotel has a perfect location right in the heart of
the resort town Jūrmala – on pedestrian Street Jomas and just a few hundred
meters from the golden beach.

Contact: wccc2024@wfcc.ch | INVITATION in PDF | Official website of the WCCC
2024

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WFCC CHRISTMAS GALLERY CONTEST

  By admin 09/12/2023 09/12/2023 Other

Here is a friendly contest for everybody: join the WFCC Xmas Gallery Contest
with your original helpmate problems inspired by Christmas!

You may send up to two original helpmates to the Gallery Director Kenneth Solja
(kenneth.solja@gmail.com) till 22nd December.

All received problems, with hidden solutions, and without the names of the
composers, will be published on 24th December 2023 on the WFCC website. All
visitors will have time till 29th December 2023 to send their marks (the system
of marking will depend on the number of entries) to the entries that give them
the most pleasure and good spirit.

Examples: You may find some examples shaped as Christmas trees in the YACPDB
(open database created by Dmitri Turevski). Most of them are marked with the
keyword Christmas tree, but some may be found with the keyword Scaccografia, too
(together, not more than 20 helpmates). Christmas shapes could be presented in
mating positions, too, but they are harder to find.

->Show the solution to example problem

1.♕d5 ♘h3 2.♔e5 ♘×g5 3.♘f6 ♘×f7#
1.♘e7 ♘h1 2.♖g6 ♘g3 3.♗g5 ♘h5#
Asymmetric solutions with Echo mates

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17TH EUROPEAN CHESS SOLVING CHAMPIONSHIP

  By admin 06/12/2023 06/12/2023 ECSC

Invitation to the 17th European Chess Solving Championship

Celebrating 100 years of Schwalbe, deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach e.V.

Location: Hagen (Westphalia, near Dortmund, Germany)
Date: Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 April 2024
Venue: FernUniversität Hagen, Informatikzentrum

Official website | Invitation in PDF | Please REGISTER by February 15, 2024

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COMPOSING CALENDAR

  By admin 05/12/2023 05/12/2023 Other

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
awards (when available).

The Calendar contains not only current tournaments, but also those whose
deadline has expired (see “All tournaments”). Info about the already closed
tournaments will be extended in the future with links to the awards, once they
are reported by the involved persons. Some of them you may already see in the
Awards column, with the mark “published”.

This draft version will be under construction for a longer time, and will
continue with a permanent development. The quality of the Calendar will depend
on all interested parties and whoever wants to help.

The work on Calendar started a year ago, with the draft templates created by
Ilija Serafimović, and later sent to the delegates. During the Batumi WCCC
Kenneth Solja offered to volunteer in contacting the organizers and compiling
material. He has largely enriched the content, and has been passionately
continuing the same process ever since. During the previous month Julia Vysotska
spent many hours organizing and adjusting the content of the excel tables to
become a part of the WFCC website. The next steps will depend on the enthusiasm
of delegates, organizers, editors, judges, directors, and other individuals.

Please, send your contributions to the Calendar Coordinator Kenneth Solja.
The first step will be to compile all possible corrections (names, dates,
themes, links …) and all missing info (new tourneys, announcements, awards …).
It’s desirable to have texts in English, and instead of pdf documents to send
only the adequate links.

Marjan Kovačević, WFCC president

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AWARDS OF COMPOSING TOURNAMENTS @ WCCC BATUMI 2023

  By admin 05/12/2023 18/12/2023 WCCC/WCSC

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 the Batumi page of the MEETINGS section:


 * Awards of Composing tournaments:
   21st Tzuica Tourney Award Batumi 2023
   26th SABRA Composing Tourney Award Batumi 2023
   Champagne Tourney Award Batumi 2023-v2
   Five Days composing tourney Award WCCC Batumi 2023
   Quick composing tourney Award WCCC Batumi 2023
   6th Murfatlar Tourney Award Batumi 2023
   9th Azemmour Tourney Award Batumi 2023
   19th Ukrainian folk crafts Tourney Award Batumi 2023
   20th Japanese Sake Tourney Award Batumi 2023

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BEDRICH FORMÁNEK (6.6.1933 – 19.11.2023)

  By admin 24/11/2023 24/11/2023 Other

Bedrich Formánek passed away on November 19, 2023, at the age of 90. A long-time
the President of the Slovak Chess Composition Organization (SOKŠ) and later its
Honorary President, a former President of the Permanent Commission for Chess
Composition (PCCC) and then the Honorary President of the World Federation for
Chess Composition (WFCC), member of the SOKŠ Hall of Fame, chess composer,
judge, lecturer, organizer, author of several books on chess composition and its
tireless promoter, author of 7,475 chess composition columns in newspapers,
chess godfather of many Slovak chess composers, but above all a great person and
a good friend.
We will certainly return to his work, life and compositions for a very long
time.

Bedrich, rest in peace.

Executive Board of the Slovak Chess Composition Organization

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