# World Federation for Chess Composition

The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition. It was known as the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) from its inception in 1956 until October 2010. It is now independent from FIDE, but both organisations are cooperating. Currently 41 countries are represented in the WFCC.
The principal goal and activities of the WFCC 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
** World Championship in Composing for Individuals (WCCI)
** World Chess Composition Tourney (WCCT), in fact a world championship of teams
** World Chess Solving Championship
* the initiation of the publication of collections of general interest,
** FIDE Albums
* the award of titles to especially deserving representatives of chess composition, including solvers, composers and judges, namely
** International Judge of Chess Compositions,
** International Grandmaster,
** International Master,
** FIDE Master,
* the holding of the World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC), the annual meeting of the WFCC.
The WFCC is led by its president, currently Marjan Kovačević, previously by Harry Fougiaxis, Uri Avner, John Rice, Bedrich Formánek, Klaus Wenda, Jan Hannelius, Gerhard Jensch, Comins Mansfield, Nenad Petrović and Gyula Neukomm.
The WFCC delegates are nominated by national problem societies and chess problem specialists. The original PCCC was created in 1956, with the first meeting at Budapest in 1956. Subsequently, the commission has met every year except 1963, 1970 and 2020. The 50th anniversary meeting was at Rhodes in 2007.

## Meetings

Locations and number of delegates for meetings of the PCCC / World Congresses of Chess Composition (WCCC):
    YearCityCountryDelegates 1956Budapest Hungary4 1957Vienna Austria6 1958Piran Yugoslavia11 1959Wiesbaden West Germany12 1960Leipzig East Germany10 1961Moscow Soviet Union10 1962Solothurn Switzerland8 1964Tel Aviv Israel6 1965Reading Great Britain11 1966Barcelona Spain12 1967Tampere Finland13 1968Arcachon France15 1969Varna Bulgaria14 1971The Hague Netherlands14 1972Pula Yugoslavia15 1973Imola Italy13 1974Wiesbaden West Germany21 1975Tbilisi Soviet Union16 1976Ribe Denmark18 1977Malinska Yugoslavia18 1978Canterbury Great Britain19 1979Hyvinkää Finland17 1980Wiener Neustadt Austria21 1981Arnhem Netherlands18 1982Varna Bulgaria17 1983Bat-Yam Israel13 1984Sarajevo Yugoslavia16 1985Riccione Italy19 1986Fontenay-sous-Bois France19 1987Graz Austria20 1988Budapest Hungary22 1989Bournemouth Great Britain23 1990Benidorm Spain22 1991Rotterdam Netherlands23 1992Bonn Germany23 1993Bratislava Slovakia25 1994Belfort France23 1995Turku Finland26 1996Tel Aviv Israel27 1997Pula Croatia28 1998St. Petersburg Russia30 1999Netanya Israel27 2000Pula Croatia26 2001Wageningen Netherlands29 2002Portorož Slovenia29 2003Moscow Russia29 2004Halkidiki Greece31 2005Eretria Greece30 2006Wageningen Netherlands31 2007Rhodes Greece29 2008Jūrmala Latvia28 2009Rio de Janeiro Brazil26 2010Crete Greece31 2011Jesi Italy32 2012Kobe Japan28 2013Batumi Georgia27 2014Bern Switzerland27 2015Ostróda Poland26 2016Belgrade Serbia31 2017Dresden Germany30 2018Ohrid North Macedonia26 2019Vilnius Lithuania26 2021 Rhodes  Greece 21 2022 Fujairah  United Arab Emirates