Annoucement

Time Schedule

• Announcement: March 1, 2025
• Closing date: September 1, 2025
• Submission of entries to the judges: December 1, 2025
• Reports by the directors and results: December 1, 2026
• Submission of selected entries to the editor: February 1, 2027
• Indexing, typesetting, printing: August 1, 2028

Directors and judges

• A) Twomovers
• Director: Gérard Doukhan (FRA), gerard.doukhan@gmail.com
• Judges: Vasil Dyachuk (SVK), Kabe Moen (USA), Anatoly Slesarenko (RUS)
• B) Threemovers
• Director: Sergey Bilyk (RUS), kuk.spb@mail.ru
• Judges: Mikhailo Marandyuk (UKR), C.G.S. Narayanan (IND), Srećko Radović (SRB)
• C) Moremovers
• Director: Grigory Popov (RUS), popovgl@yandex.ru
• Judges: Jorma Paavilainen (FIN), Valery Shavyrin (RUS), Igor Yarmonov (UKR)
• D) Endgame Studies
• Director: Jan Sprenger (GER), jan.sprenger@gmx.net
• Judges: Amatzia Avni (ISR), Oleg Pervakov (RUS), Vladislav Tarasyuk (UKR)
• E) Helpmates
• Director: Harry Fougiaxis (GRE), loyaldragon@gmail.com
• Helpmates in 2 moves (Group E1)
• Judges: Michal Dragoun (CZE), Vladislav Nefyodov (RUS), Aleksandr Semenenko (UKR)
• Helpmates in 2.5 and 3 moves (Group E2)
• Judges: Valery Gurov (RUS), Mikola Kolesnik (UKR), Abdelaziz Onkoud (FRA)
• Helpmates longer than 3 moves (Group E3)
• Judges: Christopher Jones (GBR), Valery Semenenko (UKR), Marko Ylijoki (FIN)
• F) Selfmates
• Director: Zoran Gavrilovski (MKD), zoran.gavrilovski@gmail.com
• Judges: Aleksandr Azhusin (RUS), Frank Richter (GER), Ivan Soroka (UKR)
• G) Fairies
• Director: Manfred Rittirsch (GER), mrittirsch@gmail.com
• Fairies without fairy conditions, other than help-self-play problems (Group G1)
• Judges: Emil Klemanič (SVK), Jean-Marc Loustau (FRA), Gerard Smits (NED)
• Fairies with fairy conditions, other than help-self-play problems (Group G2)
• Judges: Georgy Evseev (RUS), Eric Huber (ROU), Narayan Shankar Ram (IND)
• Help-self play problems (with or without fairy conditions/pieces) (Group G3)
• Judges: Vlaicu Crișan (ROU), Borislav Gadjanski (SRB), Juraj Lörinc (SVK)
• H) Retros
• Director: Silvio Baier (GER), silvio.baier@gmx.de
• Judges: Andry Frolkin (UKR) [reserve: Kostas Prentos (GRE)], Thierry le Gleuher (CAN), Reto Aschwanden (SUI) [for proofgames], Andrew Buchanan (SGP) [for retros other than proofgames]

Annoucement

Entries

The tourney director is Narayan Shankar Ram

Time Schedule:

• December 1st, 2024: Announcement
• January 20th, 2025: Deadline for Submission of entries to the Director
• By February 1st, 2025: Entries and spreadsheets for the scores sent by email to the Judges
• By June 1st, 2025 the latest: Judges’ marks sent to the Director
• June 15th, 2025: Provisional results sent to the Supervising Panel and to the WFCC President
• June 30th, 2025: Final results published on the WFCC site

Judges:

• Twomovers: Kabe Moen (USA); Mikhaïl Khramtsevich (BLR); Vasil Markovcij (CZE); David Shire (GBR); Givi Mosiashvili (GEO); Reserve Judge: Piotr Novitsky (UKR).
• Threemovers: Abdelaziz Onkoud (FRA); C.G.S. Narayanan (IND); Zoran Gavrilovski (MKD); Dragan Stojnić (SRB); Kari Valtonen (FIN); Reserve Judge: James Quah (SGP)
• Moremovers: Ralf Kraetschmer (GER); Oto Mihalčo (SVK); Mikhaïlo Marandyuk (UKR); Valery Shavyrin (RUS); Olivier Schmitt (FRA); Reserve Judge: –
• Endgame studies: Jan Sprenger (GER); Michael Pasman (ISR); Geir Sune Ostmoe (NOR); Luis Miguel Gonzalez (ESP); Alekseï Gasparyan (ARM); Reserve Judge: Steffen Nielsen (DNK).
• Helpmates: Francesco Simoni (ITA); Kenan Velikhanov (AZE); Marko Klasinc (SLO); Marcos Roland (BRA); Harry Fougiaxis (GRE); Reserve Judge: Ofer Comay (ISR).
• Selfmates: Hartmut Laue (GER); Mark Erenburg (ISR); Aleksandr Azhushin (RUS); Jozef Havran (SVK); Sergey Borodavkin (UKR); Reserve Judge: –
• Fairies: Kjell Widlert (SWE); Borislav Gadjanski (SRB); Paz Einat (ISR); Tadashi Wakashima (JPN); Emil Klemanič (SVK); Reserve Judge: Kalyan Seetharaman (IND)
• Retros: Michel Caillaud (FRA); Vlaicu Crișan (ROU); Thierry Le Gleuher (CAN); Kostas Prentos (GRE); Thomas Brand (GER); Reserve Judge: Andrey Frolkin (UKR).

Le Festival International des jeunes de Paris Île-de-France a eu lieu du 24 au 28 février 2025 au  gymnase Louis Lumière.

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