Handbook-Chess-Composition-2016
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CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................... 3 WFCC Meetings ........................................................................................ 4 Members and delegates ................................................................. 5 Presidents ....................................................................................... 6 Rules Statutes........................................................................................... 7 Solver's rating .............................................................................. 13 Rules for rating calculation.......................................................... 13 Criteria for acceptability of the tournaments at which ratings and norms can be gained ............................................................. 14 Criteria for gaining norms ........................................................... 14 Criteria for gaining titles.............................................................. 15 Rules of the WCSC and ECSC .................................................... 16 Codex ........................................................................................... 19 Study tourney guidelines ............................................................. 26 Titles Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions ................... 29 International Masters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions........ 29 FIDE Masters for Chess Compositions ....................................... 36 Honorary Masters of Chess Composition .................................... 33 International Judges for Chess Compositions ............................. 34 International Solving Grandmasters ............................................ 39 International Solving Masters ...................................................... 39 FIDE Solving Masters ................................................................. 40 FIDE Solving Judges ................................................................... 40 International Titles ....................................................................... 41 Competitions World Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ........................... 54 European Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ...................... 54 International Solving Contest ...................................................... 55 The International Team-Matches for Chess-Composition and the World Chess Composition Tournaments of the FIDE ..... 55 World Championship in Composing ........................................... 55 FIDE-Albums FIDE-Albums .............................................................................. 56 FIDE-Album points 1914-2009, point order ............................... 57 FIDE-Album points 1914-2009, alphabetical order .................... 58 Version 7 2. FOREWORD This leaflet started from the work of mr. Pieter The first version of this booklet with the title”Prob - ten Cate in 1971 and Suomen Shakki nr. 4a/1979, lem Chess Lists” was printed in August 1989, the which was published for the Hyvinkää meeting of second edition in August 1993 and the third edition the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess in July 1998. The fourth edition was published in Compositions (PCCC). The material has been col- 2007 only as a pdf-file. I have received a lot of lected during my 40 Commission meetings since corrections and I want to thank all those who have 1969. During that period I have been the Secretary helped me. The new title for the fourth edition was of the Commission for 12 years and the 1st Vice- suggested by John Rice President in 1994–98 and 2002–. Dr. Klaus Wenda and Helmut Zajic have helped in completing the Most of this material is available also on the WFCC official part since 1989. web site at http://wfcc.ch and the latest amendments can be found there. The FIDE-Album statistics have been computed from a database containing the registers of all 22 Please, inform about any errors to the following ad- Albums with more than 2000 composers and 22893 dress: Hannu Harkola, Ampujantie 18, FIN-00700 compositions. Helsinki, Finland or by e-mail to hannu.harkola@ netti.fi. The detailed results of the first 20 WCSC tourneys (and problems with solutions) have been published in my book ”World Chess Solving Championship 1977–1996” in 1997. An updated edition ”World Chess Solving Championship 1977–2007” by Hannu Harkola and Ľubomír Širáň was published in 2007. Editor and publisher: 4th edition October 2007 © Hannu Harkola Version 4.1 November 2007 Ampujantie 18, FIN-00700 Helsinki, Finland 5th edition March 2011 e-mail: [email protected] Minor corrections August 2012 6th edition August 2013 Helsinki 2016 7th edition July 2016 Version 7 3. MEETINGS OF THE PERMANENT COMMISSION OF THE F.I.D.E. FOR CHESS COMPOSITIONS (PCCC) AND WORLD FEDERATION FOR CHESS COMPOSITION (WFCC) Place Year Delegates President Budapest, Hungary ......................................................1956 .......................4 .................... Neukomm Vienna, Austria ............................................................1957 .......................6 .................... - ¨ - PIRAN, Yugoslavia .....................................................1958 .....................11 .................... Petrović Wiesbaden, FR Germany .............................................1959 .....................12 .................... - ¨ - Leipzig, GDR ..............................................................1960 .....................10 .................... - ¨ - Moscow, USSR ...........................................................1961 .....................10 .................... - ¨ - SOLOTHURN, Switzerland ........................................1962 .......................8 .................... - ¨ - Tel Aviv, Israel .............................................................1964 .......................6 .................... Mansfield Reading, Great Britain .................................................1965 .....................11 .................... - ¨ - BARCELONA, Spain .................................................1966 .....................12 .................... - ¨ - Tampere, Finland .........................................................1967 .....................13 .................... - ¨ - Arcachon, France.........................................................1968 .....................15 .................... - ¨ - Varna, Bulgaria ............................................................1969 .....................14 .................... - ¨ - The HAGUE, Netherlands ..........................................1971 .....................14 .................... - ¨ - Pula, Yugoslavia ..........................................................1972 .....................15 .................... Jensch Imola, Italy ..................................................................1973 .....................13 .................... - ¨ - WIESBADEN, FR Germany .......................................1974 .....................21 .................... - ¨ - Tbilisi, USSR ..............................................................1975 .....................16 .................... Hannelius Ribe, Denmark.............................................................1976 .....................18 .................... - ¨ - Malinska, Yugoslavia ..................................................1977 .....................18 .................... - ¨ - CANTERBURY, Great Britain ....................................1978 .....................19 .................... - ¨ - Hyvinkää, Finland .......................................................1979 .....................17 .................... - ¨ - Wiener Neustadt, Austria .............................................1980 .....................21 .................... - ¨ - Arnhem, Netherlands...................................................1981 .....................18 .................... - ¨ - VARNA, Bulgaria .......................................................1982 .....................17 .................... - ¨ - Bat-Yam, Israel ............................................................1983 .....................13 .................... - ¨ - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia ...................................................1984 .....................16 .................... - ¨ - Riccione, Italy .............................................................1985 .....................19 .................... - ¨ - FONTENAY-SOUS-BOIS, France .............................1986 .....................19 .................... - ¨ - Graz, Austria ................................................................1987 .....................20 .................... Wenda Budapest, Hungary ......................................................1988 .....................22 .................... - ¨ - Bournemouth, Great Britain ........................................1989 .....................23 .................... - ¨ - BENIDORM, Spain ....................................................1990 .....................22 .................... - ¨ - Rotterdam, Netherlands ...............................................1991 .....................23 .................... - ¨ - Bonn, Germany ...........................................................1992 .....................23 .................... - ¨ - Bratislava, Slovakia .....................................................1993 .....................25 .................... - ¨ - BELFORT, France .......................................................1994