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Handbook of Chess Composition

Handbook of Chess Composition - 68 pages, size A4, version 5 March 2011, pdf-file (808 kb). Updated after the Crete meeting of WFCC and several errors corrected. Thanks for remarks and corrections.

Small changes:

• 9.4.2011: page 41: Mihal Hlinka (Slovakia) has been added to the International Judges
• 9.4.2011: pages 36 and 50: Kornilov (Russian Federation - not Ukraine)
• 24.6.2011: pages 59 and 65: Pachl Franz 105,33; Müller Dieter 41,50
• 29.6.2011: page 65: Papack Daniel 23,83, page 66: Richter Frank 10,50

The first version of this booklet with the title "Problem Chess Lists" was published in August 1989, the second edition in August 1993, the third edition in July 1998 and the fourth edition in October 2007 (corrected version 4.1 in November 2007)..

Contents:

Foreword

WFCC

• Meetings
• Members and delegates
• Presidents

Rules

• Statutes
• Solver's rating
• Rules for rating calculation
• Criteria for acceptability of the tournaments at which ratings and norms can be gained
• Criteria for gaining norms
• Criteria for gaining titles
• Rating list of solvers
• Rules of the WCSC and ECSC
• Codex
• Study tourney guidelines

Titles

• Grandmasters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
• International Masters of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
• FIDE Masters for Chess Compositions
• Honorary Masters of Chess Composition
• International Judges for Chess Compositions
• International Solving Grandmasters
• International Solving Masters
• FIDE Solving Masters
• International Titles

Competitions

• International Solving Contests
• World Chess Solving Championship Tourneys
• European Chess Solving Championship Tourneys
• The International Team-Matches for Chess-Composition and the World Chess Composition Tournaments of the FIDE
• World Championship in Composing

FIDE-Albums

• FIDE-Albums
• FIDE-Album points 1914-2000, point order
• FIDE-Album points 1914-2000, alphabetical order

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