HANDBOOK OF CHESS COMPOSITION 8 th EDITION Hannu Harkola Helsinki, January 2021 CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................... 3 WFCC Meetings ........................................................................................ 4 Members and delegates ................................................................. 6 Presidents ....................................................................................... 7 Rules Statutes........................................................................................... 8 Codex ........................................................................................... 15 Solver's rating .............................................................................. 22 Criteria for acceptability of tournaments at which ratings and norms can be gained .................................................................... 22 Criteria for gaining norms ........................................................... 22 Criteria for gaining titles.............................................................. 23 Rules for rating calculation.......................................................... 23 Rules of the WCSC and ECSC .................................................... 26 Rules for the International Solving Contest (ISC)....................... 29 Rules for the World Solving Cup (WSC) .................................... 31 Guidelines for directors of rated solving tournaments ................ 32 Study tourney guidelines ............................................................. 34 Titles Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions ................... 37 International Masters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions........ 38 FIDE Masters for Chess Compositions ....................................... 41 Honorary Masters of Chess Composition .................................... 44 International Judges for Chess Compositions ............................. 45 International Solving Grandmasters ............................................ 50 International Solving Masters ...................................................... 50 FIDE Solving Masters ................................................................. 51 FIDE Solving Judges ................................................................... 52 International Titles ....................................................................... 53 Competitions World Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ........................... 67 European Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ...................... 68 International Solving Contest ...................................................... 69 The International Team-Matches for Chess-Composition and the World Chess Composition Tournaments of the FIDE ..... 69 World Solving Cup ...................................................................... 69 World Championship in Composing ........................................... 70 FIDE-Albums ........................................................................................... 70 Version 8 2. FOREWORD This leaflet started from the work ofmr. Pieter ten 1977–1996” in 1997. An updated edition ”World Cate in 1971 and Suomen Shakki nr. 4a/1979, which Chess Solving Championship 1977–2007” by Hannu was published for the Hyvinkää meeting of the Per- Harkola and Ľubomír Širáň was published in 2007. manent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Com- positions (PCCC). The material has been collected The first version of this booklet with the title”Prob - during my 49 Commission meetings since 1969. lem Chess Lists” was printed in August 1989, the During that period I have been the Secretary of the second edition in August 1993 and the third edition Commis sion for 12 years and the 1st Vice-President in July 1998. The fourth edition was published in in 1994–98 and 2002–2018. Dr. Klaus Wenda and 2007 only as a pdf-file. I have received a lot of Helmut Zajic have helped in completing the official corrections and I want to thank all those who have part since 1989. helped me. The new title for the fourth edition was suggested by John Rice The FIDE-Album points are no more included in this edition, because nowadays the title points can Most of this material is available also on the WFCC be gained also from the individual world champi- website at https://wfcc.ch and the latest amendments onship judgments. The points are updated on the can be found there. WFCC website. Please, inform about any errors to the following ad- The detailed results of the first 20 WCSC tourneys dress: Hannu Harkola, Ampujantie 18, FIN-00700 (and problems with solutions) have been published Helsinki, Finland or by e-mail to hannu.harkola@ in my book ”World Chess Solving Championship netti.fi. 4th edition October 2007 Editor and publisher: Version 4.1 November 2007 © Hannu Harkola 5th edition March 2011 Ampujantie 18, FIN-00700 Helsinki, Finland Minor corrections August 2012 e-mail: [email protected] 6th edition August 2013 7th edition July 2016 Helsinki 2021 8th edition January 2021 Version 8 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 ...............23 ................ - ¨ - Turku, Finland .............................................1995 ...............26 ................ Formánek Tel Aviv, Israel .............................................1996 ...............27 ................ - ¨ - Pula, Croatia ................................................1997 ...............28 ................ - ¨ - ST. PETERSBURG, Russian Fed. ...............1998 ...............30 ................ - ¨ - Netanya, Israel .............................................1999 ...............27 ................ - ¨ - Pula, Croatia ................................................2000