Games - World Chess Solving Championship

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The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems organised by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC).

The participants must solve three twomovers (that is, mate in twos), three threemovers, three moremovers, three helpmates, three selfmates and three studies within a set period of time. Problems involving retrograde analysis and fairy problems (those with fairy chess pieces or variants to the rules) are not included. The event is held over two days, with both individual and national team champions decided.

Winners

Team competition

1977 - Finland
1978 - Finland
1979 - Germany
1980 - Israel
1981 - Finland
1982 - Yugoslavia
1983 - Finland
1984 - Finland
1985 - Finland
1986 - Great Britain
1987 - Germany
1988 - Germany
1989 - USSR
1990 - Great Britain and USSR
1991 - USSR
1992 - Russia
1993 - Germany
1994 - Germany
1995 - Finland
1996 - Israel
1997 - Israel
1998 - Israel
1999 - Russia
2000 - Germany
2001 - Israel
2002 - Germany
2003 - Russia
2004 - Israel
2005 - Great Britain

Individual competition

1983 - Roland Baier (Switzerland)
1984 - Kari Valtonen (Finland)
1985 - Ofer Comay (Israel)
1986 - Pauli Perkonoja (Finland)
1987 - Michel Caillaud (France)
1988 - Michael Pfannkuche (Germany)
1989 - Georgy Evseev (USSR)
1990 - Georgy Evseev (USSR)
1991 - Georgy Evseev (USSR)
1992 - Pauli Perkonoja (Finland)
1993 - Michael Pfannkuche (Germany)
1994 - Arno Zude (Germany)
1995 - Pauli Perkonoja (Finland)
1996 - Noam Elkies (Israel)
1997 - Jonathan Mestel (Great Britain)
1998 - Georgy Evseev (Russia)
1999 - Ofer Comay (Israel)
2000 - Michel Caillaud (France)
2001 - Jorma Paavilainen (Finland)
2002 - Piotr Murdzia (Poland)
2003 - Andrey Selivanov (Russia)
2004 - John Nunn
(Great Britain)
2005 - Piotr Murdzia (Poland)

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