Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions
The Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition, mandated by FIDE.
Currently 39 countries are represented in the PCCC.
Main duties of the Commission include:
- the dissemination and encouragement of chess composition throughout the world,
- the formulation of rules and guidelines in all spheres of chess composition,
- the arrangement of official international composing and solving tourneys
- the initiation of the publication of collections of general interest,
- the award of titles to especially deserving representatives of chess composition, including both solvers and composers, subject to the approval of FIDE
The Commission is led by its President, currently Uri Avner, previously by John Rice, Bedrich Formánek, Klaus Wenda, Jan Hannelius, Gerhard Jensch, Comins Mansfield, Nenad Petrović and Gyula Neukomm.
Commission members are nominated by national problem societies and chess problem specialists.[1] The commission was created in 1956, with the first meeting at Budapest in 1956. Subsequently the commission has met every year except 1963 and 1970. The 50th anniversary meeting was at Rhodes in 2007.[2]
Meetings
Locations and number of delegates for meetings of the PCCC:[3]
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References
- ^ Sunnucks, Anne (1970), The Encyclopaedia of Chess, St. Martin's Press, p. 352, LCCN 78106371
- ^ Wenda, Klaus (September 2007), The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Permanent Commission of the FIDÉ for Chess Composition (PCCC), Vienna, http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/pccc50.htm, retrieved 2007-12-29
- ^ Meetings of the PCCC
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