Şahmat bəstəçiliyi üzrə şəxsi Dünya çempionatı, 2016-2018
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS
(WCCI) 2016-18
ANNOUNCEMENT / ELAN
The WFCC is inviting composers
of all countries to participate in the 2016-18 WCCI. The tourney director is
Dmitry Turevsky (email: dmitri.turevski@gmail.com). The competition will be held according to the system used in the
previous championship, with changes in the points 4, 5, 8 and 12 of the
rules.
Rules / Qaydalar
- The WCCI is organised with the authority of the
WFCC. The championship should be announced in advance.
- The WCCI is open to all composers from all
countries.
- The WCCI includes the following sections: A)
Twomovers, B) Threemovers, C) Moremovers, D) Endgame studies, E) Helpmates,
F) Selfmates, G) Fairies, H) Retro problems.
- A composer may submit to each section no more
than 6 and no less than 4 compositions published in the defined three-year
period. For informal tourneys the date of publication of the issue
containing the composition is decisive; for formal tourneys the date of
appearance of the award is decisive (NB: not the closing date of the
tourney). If a composition has been published in a magazine which is
labelled 2015 on the front but it appeared in 2016-2018, the composition
is eligible for the 2016-18 WCCI. If a composition has been published in a
magazine which is labelled 2018 on the front but it appeared in 2019, the
composition is eligible for the 2016-18 WCCI provided that the magazine
was published before the deadline. If a composition has been published in
a magazine which is labelled 2019 on the front but it appeared in 2018,
the composition is not eligible for the 2016-18 WCCI. Later corrections or
versions could be accepted if they are submitted before the deadline. If
the date of publication is in doubt, the director should ask the composer
for evidence. Joint compositions and versions created in collaboration
with other composer(s) are not allowed. It is not allowed to submit
compositions on behalf of someone else without explicit statement of the
other person’s consent.
- Entries must be sent to the director by email and
in PDF format only. In each section composers have to submit one PDF file,
which will include all their entries to this section with one composition
per page. Composers must have already marked their entries with No. 1 to
6. The compositions should be in diagrams of a uniform size, with the
author’s name, publication data, any award, stipulation, full solution and
a comment if desired. Algebraic notation is to be used. In section D
(endgame studies) composers may alternatively submit a PGN file of their
entries or both. In section G (Fairies) composers must provide the
definitions for the less common fairy elements.
- The director forwards the PDF/PGN files (one
PDF/PGN file per composer) to the judges, as well as a spreadsheet where
they will enter their scores.
- In each section five judges will be selected
among the best 15 participants from the previous championship, with the
restriction that in each section the judges should be from different
countries. If for any reason the list cannot be completed from these
composers, the WCCI committee spokesman and the director will have to find
other persons to act as judges. The same person can act as a judge in more
than one section. It is desirable to avoid selecting the same judges as in
the previous cycle, except when there is no other choice. The composers
will have to agree in writing that they are willing to act as judges.
- Using a scale of 0 to 4 including half-points,
each judge will allocate points to all compositions in the section(s)
which he has agreed to judge, except for his own entries and entries that
were excluded from the competition on technicalities. Compositions which
are sound and not anticipated should receive at least 0.5 points. The
judges must explain their reason(s) for giving a score of 0 points to any
composition. Judges in section D (endgame studies) are requested to
allocate points to the studies as if they had been composed in the
traditional manner before the advent of the computer into compositional
chess. It should also be noted that studies are not to be regarded as
anticipated by any position appearing in a computer-generated database.
- The judges should take note that entries to the
WCCI with a score of 8 points or higher will automatically qualify for the
2016-18 FIDE Album.
- After completing his work, each judge will send
the spreadsheet with his scores to the director, along with comments
regarding errors, very close anticipations, thematic flaws, etc. The
director should distribute these comments to the other judges together
with his own notes on anticipations, cooks, duals, etc. However, no
comments regarding constructional weaknesses or possible technical
improvements are to be sent to the judges. Judges may wish to change some
of their scores as a result of discussion with their colleagues, but their
individual scores should always reflect the true value of the compositions
in the view of each judge.
- The director will calculate the total points
gained by each composition. If a composition has been judged by five
judges, the director discards the highest and the lowest marks and sums
the remaining three. If a composition belongs to a judge, the director
sums the two middle marks and adds the average of these two marks (in
other words, the score of such a composition is 1.5 times the sum of the
two middle marks). If a composition has received zero points from at least
one judge, the director should inform the other judges about the reasons
for such a decision. In such a case adjustment of points by all judges is
necessary.
- The director will send the tables with the
results to the 3 members of the Supervising Panel, who cannot be
participating or judging in any section. If he feels it necessary he will
point out any potential irregularities, e.g. the average score of any one
judge is much higher or much lower than that of the other four, or cases
where there is a wide disparity (e.g. more than 1.5) between the judges’
points allocated to a given composition (in such cases the director should
email the outliers with the average score of the other judges). The
members of the Supervising Panel should also point out irregularities and
ask the director for a resolution.
- The sum of a composer’s 4 best compositions is
calculated for his final result. The champion in each section is the
composer with the highest sum of his 4 best compositions. In a case of a
tie, the highest-ranked composition decides. If they are still the same,
the second-ranked composition decides, etc. If all compositions have the
same scores, composers share places.
- In his report, the director includes a) tables
with full results of all participants, b) the four highest-ranked
compositions, with eventual comments, of the three winners in each
section, c) the three compositions with the highest scores in each
section, even if they do not belong to the three winners. The director
decides about remarks concerning complete anticipation, legitimate
publication data, legality and soundness. The director and the Supervising
Panel decide about any claims and the results are declared final when
approved by the WFCC president and published on the WFCC site.
- The official documents (announcement and award)
should be written in at least one of the official languages of the FIDE.
- The three winners in each section will be awarded
a certificate of honour.
Time Schedule / Vaxt cədvəli
- September
2018: Announcement
- January 20th 2019 12 Midnight UTC: Deadline for
the submission of entries to the
director
- February 1st 2019: Entries and spreadsheets for
the scores sent by email to the judges
- June 1st 2019: Judges’ marks sent to the director
- June 15th 2019: Provisional results sent to the
Supervising Panel and to the WFCC president
- June 30th 2019: Final results published on the
WFCC site
Judges /
Hakimlər
A)
Twomovers: Einat, Paz (ISR), Khramcevich, Mikhail (BLR), Maleika, Gerhard
(GER), Mosiashvili, Givi (GEO), Stojnic, Dragan (SRB).
B)
Threemovers: Labai, Zoltan (SVK), Mladenovic, Miodrag (SRB), Onkoud, Abdelaziz
(MAR), Safarov, Mubariz (AZE), Volchek, Viktor (BLR).
C)
Moremovers: Gordian, Yury (UKR), Karbowiak, Uwe (GER), Le Grand, Henk (NED),
Mihalco, Oto (SVK), Vladimirov, Yakov (RUS).
D)
Endgame studies: Costeff, Gady (ISR), Gyarmati, Peter (HUN), Minski, Martin
(GER), Nielsen, Steffen Slumstrup (DEN), Rusz, Arpad (ROU).
E)
Helpmates: Baier, Silvio (GER), Comay, Ofer (ISR), Csak, Janos (HUN), Fougiaxis,
Harry (GRE), Klemanic, Emil (SVK).
F)
Selfmates: Gavrilovski, Zoran (MKD), Mikholap, Aleksandr (BLR), Petkov, Petko
(BUL), Richter, Frank (GER), Tura, Waldemar (POL).
G)
Fairies: Bulavka, Aleksandr (BLR), Crisan, Vlaicu (ROU), Kostadinov, Diyan
(BUL), Pachl, Franz (GER), Quah, James (SGP).
H)
Retros: Baibikov, Dmitrij (ISR), Brand, Thomas (GER), Dupont, Nicolas (FRA),
Frolkin, Andrey (UKR), Prentos, Kostas (USA).
Supervising
Panel / Nəzarətçilər
Georgy
Evseev (RUS), Mikalai Sihnevich (BLR), Rainer Staudte (GER)
Notes
/ Qeyd
ATTENTION!
The entries to the 10th WCCT belong to the 2016-2018 championship.
