57th World Congress of Chess Composition

38th World Chess Solving Championship

August 23-30, 2014 in Berne

NEWS

NEW See Highlights and Decisions of the 57th World Congress of Chess Composition on the WFCC website (Sep 1, 2014)
NEW The Bernese newspaper The Bund has been published another article about the congress (Sep 1, 2014)
NEW The problems of the Solving Show are available under Solving (Sep 1, 2014)
The 58th World Congress of Chess Composition and the 39th World Chess Solving Championship will take place in Ostróda (Poland) 1.-8.8.2015 (Aug 29, 2014)

See News Archive below.

BOOKLET

NEW Version 1.4 of the booklet is available.
The Spišská borovička Tourney award and bookmarks for the document have been added. (Sep 3, 2014)
Version 1.3: Minor changes have been applied to the awards of Champagne, Bulgarian Wine and Quick Composing Tourney and another Swiss newspaper article has been added. (Sep 1, 2014)
Version 1.2: Major change is the addition of the Bulgarian Wine Tourney Award. Besides that minor changes have been applied to the awards of the Sabra and the Vodka tourney and two reports about the congress in Swiss newspapers have been added at the end of the booklet. (Aug 31, 2014)

THE WINNER PHOTO

Poland is the old and new World Champion in WCSC (World Chess Solving Championship) 2014. Kacper Piorun took also the first and Piotr Murdzia the second place in the individual championship.

The Polish Team from left to right:
Piotr Murdzia, Kacper Piorun, Piotr Górski, Aleksander Miśta
Team Poland WCSC 2014
Photo by Franziska Iseli

NEWS ARCHIVE

The final results of 38th World Chess Solving Championship and some statistics have been published under Solving (Aug 29, 2014)
The final results of the Open Solving Tournament have been enhanced by the expected rating change and some statistics under Solving (Aug 29, 2014)
See the WCCC 2014 congress in the MatPlus Forum (Aug 29, 2014)
Preliminary results after the 2nd day of 38th World Chess Solving Championship have been published under Solving (Aug 27, 2014)
The problems and solutions of the 38th World Chess Solving Championship have been published under Solving (Aug 27, 2014)
The final results of the Open Solving Tournament have been published under Solving (Aug 27, 2014)
Preliminary results of 1st day of 38th World Chess Solving Championship have been published under Solving (Aug 26, 2014)
The problems, solutions and the preliminary results of the Open Solving Tournament have been published under Solving (Aug 25, 2014)
The Quick Composing Tourney Sunday August 24, 2014 has been initiated under Composing (Aug 24, 2014)
The report in the Bernese newspaper The Bund about the 57th World Congress of Chess Composition has been published here and sample problems of the six categories of the solving championships with dynamic solutions can be found here (Aug 24, 2014)
The participants' list can be downloaded as a printable PDF file on a single page under Participants (updated Aug 24, 2014)
The Official 5 days Composing Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 23, 2014)
The venues of the closing events on Friday has been published under Venues, including the schedule for Friday afternoon and evening (Aug 20, 2014)
Please don't forget to register for the closing events at WCCC reception desk, Novotel 1st floor, after your arrival in Berne!
The testing rules and the PDF document for the Bulgarian Wine Tourney have been refined under Composing (Aug 20, 2014)
The Moskovskaya Matreshka Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 19, 2014)
The sixth and last issue of hints and tips by Franziska have been published under Franziska's Tips, covering "Restaurants and Supermarkets" (Aug 18, 2014)
The required testing with Popeye for the Japanese Sake Tourney has been refined under Composing (Aug 17, 2014)
The Schedule has been refined with information about required registration at WCCC reception desk, Novotel 1st floor (Aug 17, 2014)
The Ukrainian Folk Crafts Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 17, 2014)
The Azerbaijan Helpmate Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 17, 2014)
The scope of the Azemmour Tourney has been refined under Composing (Aug 16, 2014)
The Sabra Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 14, 2014)
The Vodka Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 12, 2014)
The Champagne Tourney has been announced under Composing (Aug 10, 2014)
The Meeting Agenda for the first and the subsequent meetings of the congress has been published (Aug 6, 2014)
The venue of the solving tournaments has been published under Venues (Aug 6, 2014)