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MatPlus.Net Forum WFCC Projects FIDE reports on solving ... and a bit more
 
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(1) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Friday, Apr 21, 2023 02:00]

FIDE reports on solving ... and a bit more


As it turned out, the FIDE website has been gladly accepting and publishing longer reports from solving events.

The next articles from 2023 were mostly about World Solving Cup events, but they included some additional elements from
chess composition:

https://www.fide.com/news/2347
https://fide.com/news/2286
https://fide.com/news/2261
https://fide.com/news/2251
https://fide.com/news/2241
https://fide.com/news/2190
https://fide.com/news/2161

If you want to present any event to a wider chess audience, I'd gladly cooperate in producing similar articles.
The main demands are:
1. photos of high quality and interesting contents,
2. some diagrams with inviting contents or backgrounds,
3. any interesting facts to attract a wider audience.
 
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(2) Posted by seetharaman kalyan [Saturday, Apr 22, 2023 07:17]

That Was a great report on the Latvia solving!!
Would be nice if they publish Fide world cup results too
 
 
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(3) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Saturday, Apr 22, 2023 17:45]

Why not? The doors are open, what we need is someone to make reading interesting for a wider audience.
With solving events it is much easier in general, plus I was getting great materials
(photos, diagrams, curiosities ...) from all the local organizers.
For composing tournaments some volunteers will be needed again.
 
   
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(4) Posted by Rajendiran Raju [Saturday, Apr 22, 2023 18:46]

9th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021
Final Results Covered in FIDE website...with each section pdf link

https://www.fide.com/news/1345
 
   
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(5) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Saturday, Apr 22, 2023 19:18]

The report for 2021 was done by Andrey Selivanov in September 2021.
If there was now report from WC 2022 in the FIDE News 2022 it's too late to offer it in 2023.
 
   
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(6) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Saturday, May 20, 2023 00:07]

Announcements of the 11th FIDE World Cup and 7th Youth Chess Composing Challenge published:
https://fide.com/news/2406
 
   
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(7) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Saturday, May 20, 2023 08:38]

Uhm, eh, Marjan... :-) I quote:

"Since then, composing competitions have become the driving force of chess composition."

Wouldn't the "the" better be replaced with a more humble "a"? ;-)

Even assuming "chess composition"=="the FIDE album" and "informal tourneys"=="composing competitions"
(both might be questioned) I think the sentence is too bold.
For instance, I compose more for the sake of art, competition
("Hey, look and weep, you lamers elsewhere, I did a 9-fold Fleck!") surely
is to be regarded but I would deny on my deathbed it's my main driving force.

The next sentence, "Composers compete with the achievements of their great predecessors
to add some quality, intensity, elegancy, and originality...", is sooo true, though.
"And, lamers, a 3-fold King Schiffmann"...browsing the Albrecht..."WHAT? Somebody
did 4 with the same matrix? I'm a lamer!" (stops composing for a year) :-)

Hauke
 
   
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(8) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Sunday, May 21, 2023 01:37]

Hauke, thanks for reading it carefully, and making a good point!
My English surely isn't perfect, but this time the very helpful FIDE website editor made some correction I didn't like.
I was thinking (and writing) about development of the theory but he avoided this word couple of times.
Originally it was:
"The DEVELOPMENT of chess composition has been lasting since the first Arabic manuscripts on chess" ...
and later: "Since then, the composing competitions have become the driving force of the DEVELOPMENT "....
Anyway, the element of competition is always present and it pushes chess composition to its limits.
It doesn't mean those who win are better than those who don't, its'simply way to the new limits.
 
   
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(9) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Sunday, May 21, 2023 08:51]

Ah, I see. As we all know, chess is math, sport and art all rolled into one,
and it is natural that the FIDE, mainly a sport organization, wants to stress
the "competition" aspect, even regarding composing.
 
   
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(10) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Sunday, May 21, 2023 15:17]

Anyway, it's good to see ChessBase getting more interested in composition and reproducing announcement the same day:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-world-cup-in-composing-2023-masterpieces
 
   
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(11) Posted by Andrew Buchanan [Sunday, May 21, 2023 22:35]

I personally am not a big fan of composition tourneys. They don’t seem to bring out the best in me. But others seem to relish them so I try not to be a spoilsport, and to engage with them when I don’t forget the deadlines. I find much better “drivers” are the magazine articles and social media through which I seem to have made some good friends for whom I am very grateful.
 
   
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(12) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Sunday, Jun 25, 2023 00:56]

The new column on the wfcc.ch website - Media section https://www.wfcc.ch/media/ - now contains all 10 FIDE reports from the first half of 2023.
 
 
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