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

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)

External link

• http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/solving.htm