The Results of the 9th WCCT
are published on the WFCC website!
In total 37 countries participated in the tournament with 553 compositions by 257 composers in seven sections. The winner of the 9th WCCT is Russia, ahead of Ukraine and Israel. Sincere congratulations to the winners and to all participants!!!
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Updates as of the 4th of September, 2013:
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Now there are four sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) with all problems of May-August, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(III) will contain problems of September-December, 2013.
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber.
The Italian Problemist Association (API) organizes
The 4th Mini-Tour called NEUTRAL PIECES
Will be admitted any type of problems from 2 to 6 moves. Every problems must to have one or more neutral piece(s) in initial position. (See original announcement in Italian/English in PDF here!)
More solutions and twins are allowed, but not zero-position and duplex. It’s allowed also only one fairy condition. Problems must be C+, please point out the software used. Sent to this address: valerio.agostini@gmail.com
Sinfonie Scacchistiche with the problems (and award) published will be sent to all participants. Deadline: August 31, 2014.
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Updates as of the 2nd-3rd of September, 2013:
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Now there are four sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) with all problems of May-August, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(III) will contain problems of September-December, 2013.
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber.
The scores and tables of results of two sections of WCCI 2010-2012 are updated: Results of Section D – Endgame studies and Results of Section G – Fairies.
The results of WCCI will be declared final on September 15th, 2013.
Dear authors of the awarded problems JF-2013/I !
I hope all of you have got your diplomas by postal mail! I’ve added some pictures of them to the Gallery of Prizes, and also have made Gallery page visible under the Tourneys menu.
With all changes I make from time to time some links can be broken. Please let me know if something doesn’t work! Thank you! –Julia
01-September, 2013
The End of Informal Tourney JF-2013-II & the beginning of JF-2013-III
Dear Friends, yesterday was the last day of the informal tourney Julia’sFairies-2013-II !
I will inform you later about the list of problems participating in this tourney (some improved problems, PG-problems will be excluded). The number of problems is around 50 (from No.311 till No.365).
THANKS A LOT to all participants and active commentators!
GRATITUDE to our judge, DIYAN KOSTADINOV, for taking this big work! I’d like to mention, that Diyan runs also two thematic tourneys himself now, Zabunov-85MT 2013 and The 4th Bulgarian Wine Tourney 2013(PDF), and regular informal tourneys on the website KoBulChess, so taking one more judging is really impressive! Diyan, we’ll be patient and can wait for the Award as long as needed! Have a pleasant judging!
And now all of you are very welcome to participate in Julia’sFairies-2013-III: from 01-September-2013 till 31-December-2013.
Welcome to our judge of autumn-winter period – ERIC HUBER!
PROVISIONAL AWARD OF THE
“MARIO G. GARCIA 65”
JUBILEE TOURNEY
This tournament was announced by the “Union of problematicists Argentina Chess (UAPA). Had three sections: 1º – H # 2 – 2º – H # 2.5-3 – 3º – H # n
There were 83 problems: H # 2 (41), H#2,5-3 (27) and H#n (15) , 46 composers of 17 countries. → Read full Award!
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Updates as of 28-29th of August, 2013: |
Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov.
Reminder! The last days to submit your problems to the
3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing 2013
The International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organising the 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2013 in eight sections.
The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide. →Read more…
The closing date is September 1st, 2013.
