HANDBOOK OF CHESS COMPOSITION 4th EDITION Hannu Harkola Helsinki, October 2007 Contents Foreword.................................................................................................... 3 Commission Meetings ........................................................................................ 4 Members ....................................................................................... 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 Rating list of solvers .................................................................... 15 Rules of the WCSC ..................................................................... 19 Rules of the ECSC ...................................................................... 21 Codex .......................................................................................... 24 Titles Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions ................... 31 International Masters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions ....... 31 FIDE Masters for Chess Compositions....................................... 33 Honorary Masters of Chess Composition ................................... 34 International Judges for Chess Compositions .............................. 35 International Solving Grandmasters ............................................. 40 International Solving Masters ...................................................... 40 FIDE Solving Masters ................................................................. 40 International Titles ....................................................................... 42 Competitions World Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ............................ 53 European Chess Solving Championship Tourneys ...................... 53 The International Team-Matches for Chess-Composition and the World Chess Composition Tournaments of the FIDE .... 54 World Championship in Composing ............................................. 54 FIDE-Albums FIDE-Albums .............................................................................. 54 FIDE-Album points 1914-2000, point order................................. 55 FIDE-Album points 1914-2000, alphabetical order ..................... 56 2. FOREWORD This leaflet started from the work of mr. Pieter Chess Solving Championship 1977–2006" by ten Cate in 1971 and Suomen Shakki nr. 4a/1979, Ľubomír Širáň will be published in October 2007. which was published for the Hyvinkää meeting of the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess The first version of this booklet with the title "Prob- Compositions (PCCC). The material has been col- lem Chess Lists" was published in August 1989, the lected during my 36 Commission meetings since second edition in August 1993 and the third edition 1969. During that period I have been the Secretary in July 1998. I have received a lot of corrections of the Commission for 12 years and the 1st Vice- and I want to thank all those who have helped me. President in 1994–98 and 2002–. Dr. Klaus Wenda Dr. Bedrich Formánek has checked and corrected and Helmut Zajic have helped in completing the the writing of names. The new title for the fourth official part since 1989. edition was suggested by John Rice The FIDE-Album statistics have been computed Most of this material is available also on the PCCC from a database containing the registers of all 19 web site at http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc and the Albums with 1995 composers and 18751 composi- latest amendments can be found there. tions. Please, inform about any errors to the following ad- The detailed results of the first 20 WCSC tourneys dress: Hannu Harkola, Ampujantie 18, FI-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. 1977–1996" in 1997. An updated edition ""World Editor and publisher: © Hannu Harkola Ampujantie 18, FI-00700 Helsinki, Finland e-mail: [email protected] Helsinki 2007 3. MEETINGS OF THE PERMANENT COMMISSION OF THE F.I.D.E. FOR CHESS COMPOSITIONS 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 ................ - ¨ - SOLOTURN, 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 .............. 26 ................ - ¨ - Wageningen, Netherlands ............................2001 .............. 29 ................ - ¨ - PORTOROŽ, Slovenia ................................2002 .............. 29 ................ - ¨ - Moscow, Russia ...........................................2003 .............. 29 ................ Rice Halkidiki, Greece .........................................2004 .............. 31 ................ - ¨ - Eretria, Greece .............................................2005