Welcome to the 50th World Congress of Chess Composition website!
Organiser: Greek Chess Composition Committee and Chess Club of Koridallos
Venue: Rhodes, Greece, 13-20 October 2007
Hotel: Olympic Palace in Ixia, Rhodes

Date
 News
Oct-24 It has been a fabulous week and everybody seems to have enjoyed this anniversary congress. Congratulations to the team of Great Britain for their first place in the 31st World Chess Solving Championship (for the third time in a row!) and to John Nunn for his convincing win (he missed only 1 point in the threemovers round!)

Ofer Comay from Israel was the winner of the Open Solving Tournament with a perfect score (as four other solvers!), just 3 minutes faster than Arno Zude from Germany who was second. Arno Zude won in the Solving Show repeating his last year's success, Marjan Kovačević dominated in the Open Quick Solving once more and the pair of Nikos Kalesis and Kostas Prentos were first in the Bughouse chess tournament.

Full results and photos are available at the PCCC and Solving Chess sites. You may also get the bulletin with the complete tables and the awards of the composing tourneys as a PDF file. In order to view and print this file, you need the free Adobe Reader, which you can get from here. You can download the bulletin by right-clicking and choosing Save Target As...: Direct link of the WCCC 2007 bulletin at Rapidshare
Oct-09 The list of participants has been updated.

Andrey Selivanov and Menachem Witztum announce the Vodka and Sabra composing tourneys respectively.
Oct-01 Many thanks to Ivan Jarolín for drawing our attention to the modified rules of the Quick Solving competition, which have recently been tried successfully in Slovakia and Germany. For further details, check the solving news page.

Don't miss Valery Gurov's announcement of the 8th Moskovskaya Matreshka tourney in the updated composing news page.
Sep-24 The list of participants has been updated.
Sep-18 Michel Caillaud announces the French Champagne 2007 tourney asking for any kind of retros featuring at least two en passant captures. Refer to the updated composing news page.
Sep-11 We included in the composing news the announcements of the thematic tourneys that we have so far received. Take note that some of them are open only to those attending the congress!
Aug-25 We plan to have an Open Quick Solving Tournament also this year on Tuesday evening, 16th of October, an idea invented by Ivan Jarolín in 2001 that is quite popular mainly in Slovakia. Please check the rules in the solving news page.
Aug-10 We invite all those interested in giving a lecture, to let us know about it. Lectures are scheduled for Monday evening, 15th of October. In the event that all lectures do not fit in a single evening, we will arrange to have a second part on Tuesday evening, 16th of October. Please let us know in advance the topic you wish to present and the expected duration of your lecture.

Like in Halkidiki in 2004, we have planned a bughouse chess tournament (rapid games, 5 minutes long) for this year, too. Details on a separate page.
Jul-31 Quite many participants organize informal composing tourneys during the WCCCs. If you plan such a tourney this year in Rhodes, you could send in the theme in advance (preferably by 16th of September) and we will be glad to include the announcement in the congress material for all participants. Please advise theme, possible example and closing date / time, keeping in mind that the prize giving ceremony is scheduled for Friday afternoon, 19th of October. Do not forget to indicate whether participation is allowed via e-mail also to those not attending the congress!
Jul-25 We are glad to announce that Brian Stephenson will be the Director of the 31st World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC), assisted by Peter Bakker, Ward Stoffelen and Neal Turner. All four are very well experienced in WCSCs and we will do our best to help them in organising a successful championship. The same team will also arrange the Open Solving Tournament. For further details, please have a look at the solving news dedicated page.
Mar-21 We issued the official announcement of the congress today. Ixia and the island of Rhodes, in general, is a well-appointed holiday area and the weather during this period is still excellent.