World Federation for Chess Composition explained

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.^[1] It is now independent from FIDE, but both organisations are cooperating. Currently 41 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 Championship in Composing for Individuals (WCCI)
  • World Chess Composition Tourney (WCCT), in fact a world championship of teams
  • World Chess Solving Championship
• 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 holding of the World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC), the annual meeting of the WFCC.

The WFCC is led by its president, currently Marjan Kovačević, previously by Harry Fougiaxis, 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, 1970 and 2020.The 50th anniversary meeting was at Rhodes in 2007.

Meetings

Locations and number of delegates for meetings of the PCCC / World Congresses of Chess Composition (WCCC):^[2]

Year	City	Country	Delegates
1956			4
1957			6
1958			11
1959			12
1960			10
1961			10
1962			8
1964			6
1965			11
1966			12
1967			13
1968			15
1969			14
1971			14
1972			15
1973			13
1974			21
1975			16
1976			18
1977			18
1978			19
1979			17
1980			21
1981			18
1982			17
1983			13
1984			16
1985			19
1986			19
1987			20
1988			22
1989			23
1990			22
1991			23
1992			23
1993			25
1994			23
1995			26
1996			27
1997			28
1998			30
1999			27
2000			26
2001			29
2002			29
2003			29
2004			31
2005			30
2006			31
2007			29
2008			28
2009			26
2010			31
2011			32
2012			28
2013			27
2014			27
2015			26
2016			31
2017			30
2018			26
2019			26
2021	Rhodes	Greece	21
2022	Fujairah

External links

• http://www.wfcc.ch

Notes and References

1. Web site: WFCC . 2013-03-12 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170505/http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/dec10.htm . dead .
2. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/pcmeet.htm Meetings of the PCCC/WFCC