World Federation for Chess Composition

The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition. It was known as the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) from its inception in 1956 until October 2010. It is now independent from FIDE, but both organisations are cooperating. Currently 40 countries are represented in the WFCC.

The principal goal and activities of the WFCC include:

• the dissemination and encouragement of chess composition throughout the world,
• the formulation of rules and guidelines in all spheres of chess composition,
• the arrangement of official international composing and solving tourneys
  • World Chess Solving Championship
  • World Championship of Chess Composition
  • World Chess Composition Tourney - in fact a world championship of teams
• the initiation of the publication of collections of general interest,
  • FIDE Albums
• the award of titles to especially deserving representatives of chess composition, including solvers, composers and judges, namely
  • International Judge of Chess Compositions,
  • International Grandmaster,
  • International Master,
  • FIDE Master.

The WFCC is led by its President, currently Harry Fougiaxis, previously by Uri Avner, John Rice, Bedrich Formánek, Klaus Wenda, Jan Hannelius, Gerhard Jensch, Comins Mansfield, Nenad Petrović and Gyula Neukomm.

The WFCC delegates are nominated by national problem societies and chess problem specialists. The original PCCC was created in 1956, with the first meeting at Budapest in 1956. Subsequently the commission has met every year except 1963 and 1970. The 50th anniversary meeting was at Rhodes in 2007.

Meetings

1990 PCCC meeting (from left to right): John Roycroft, Gia Nadareishvili, Virgil Nestorescu and Jan Mortensen

Locations and number of delegates for meetings of the PCCC/WFCC:

Year	City	Country	Delegates
1956	Budapest	Hungary	4
1957	Vienna	Austria	6
1958	Piran	Yugoslavia	11
1959	Wiesbaden	West Germany	12
1960	Leipzig	East Germany	10
1961	Moscow	Soviet Union	10
1962	Solothurn	Switzerland	8
1964	Tel Aviv	Israel	6
1965	Reading	Great Britain	11
1966	Barcelona	Spain	12
1967	Tampere	Finland	13
1968	Arcachon	France	15
1969	Varna	Bulgaria	14
1971	The Hague	Netherlands	14
1972	Pula	Yugoslavia	15
1973	Imola	Italy	13
1974	Wiesbaden	West Germany	21
1975	Tbilisi	USSR	16
1976	Ribe	Denmark	18
1977	Malinska	Yugoslavia	18
1978	Canterbury	Great Britain	19
1979	Hyvinkää	Finland	17
1980	Wiener Neustadt	Austria	21
1981	Arnhem	Netherlands	18
1982	Varna	Bulgaria	17
1983	Bat-Yam	Israel	13
1984	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	16
1985	Riccione	Italy	19
1986	Fontenay-sous-Bois	France	19
1987	Graz	Austria	20
1988	Budapest	Hungary	22
1989	Bournemouth	Great Britain	23
1990	Benidorm	Spain	22
1991	Rotterdam	Netherlands	23
1992	Bonn	Germany	23
1993	Bratislava	Slovakia	25
1994	Belfort	France	23
1995	Turku	Finland	26
1996	Tel Aviv	Israel	27
1997	Pula	Croatia	28
1998	St. Petersburg	Russia	30
1999	Netanya	Israel	27
2000	Pula	Croatia	26
2001	Wageningen	Netherlands	29
2002	Portorož	Slovenia	29
2003	Moscow	Russia	29
2004	Halkidiki	Greece	31
2005	Eretria	Greece	30
2006	Wageningen	Netherlands	31
2007	Rhodes	Greece	29
2008	Jūrmala	Latvia	28
2009	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	26
2010	Crete	Greece	31
2011	Jesi	Italy	32
2012	Kobe	Japan	28
2013	Batumi	Georgia	27
2014	Bern	Switzerland	27
2015	Ostróda	Poland	26