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Another option, proposed by FIDE President, was to reinstate PCCC in the FIDE structure.

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7. To hold a tender for FIDE album publication.

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December 2nd, 2009
GENS UNA SUMUS!
To the President of the FIDE
Re: The organisation of world chess composition

Dear President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,

We should like to ask for your help on a matter of some urgency.

The PCCC (the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Composition) has existed since 1956, promoting composition and solving throughout the world, organising official international tourneys, publishing collections of the best compositions from each three-year period, awarding international composing and solving titles, and dealing with other matters of interest to problemists and endgame study enthusiasts. At our annual congress, the official World Championships in the Solving of Chess Problems (WCSC) are held, for both individuals and national teams.

For more than 50 years we have enjoyed complete autonomy within the FIDE. Our relations with the FIDE have been characterised by uninterrupted mutual respect and trust. We proudly grant and hold FIDE titles, the contests which we organise are FIDE tournaments and FIDE World Championships, and our periodical anthologies of chess composition are the FIDE Albums.

At present 40 countries are full members of our organisation. Every four years, the delegates of these countries elect among themselves a Presidium consisting of one President and three Vice-Presidents. Our Statutes lay down that it is our President who is responsible for all contacts with the FIDE.

In March 2009, however, the FIDE Secretary Mr Leong informed us that the PCCC is no longer a part of the FIDE but instead is considered an independent international organisation, affiliated to the FIDE.

Consequently, at our congress in Rio de Janeiro (October 2009) the delegates accepted provisional new Statutes, with modifications resulting from our independent status. Our provisional new name is ICCU (International Chess Composition Union). Definite new Statutes and a final name are expected to be decided on at our next congress (Crete 2010).

Although the FIDE in effect obliged us to create an independent organisation, we did not (and still do not) see any real need for this change. That is because the arrangement established between us, namely our status as an autonomous permanent commission within the FIDE, served everyone so well for more than 50 years.

The ICCU wishes to keep close contacts with the FIDE, with cooperation on matters of common interest.

Lately, however, we have learned of new steps which may jeopardise our friendly relations. Mr Selivanov (FIDE VP) has informed us that these steps may include the creation of another Commission for Chess Composition within the FIDE, and that this will be decided upon at the meeting of the FIDE Presidential Board in January 2010. We find it hard to believe that the FIDE would go along with such a step, for it would convey an undeniable message of mistrust.

This unilateral step could only mean a division in the peaceful world of chess composition, with obviously negative implications, perhaps leading to the existence of several rival international organisations.

It is clearly in the interest of both the FIDE and the ICCU to avoid any possible split among chess composers as well as solvers, and so we see an urgent need for a dialogue between us, to find a constructive way to prevent this.

Of course, to be effective, this dialogue should be carried out by participants who basically trust each other. We ask you, Mr President, to join us in setting up such a dialogue.

Yours sincerely,
Uri Avner, President of the ICCU (FIDE IGM of Chess Composition), Israel
Klaus Wenda, Honorary President (FIDE IM), Austria
Bedrich Formanek, Honorary President (FIDE Master), Slovakia
John Rice, Honorary President (FIDE IM), U.K.
Hannu Harkola, 1st Vice President, Finland
Marko Klasinc, 2nd Vice President (FIDE Master), Slovenia
Kjell Widlert, 3rd Vice President (FIDE IM), Sweden

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

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Dear PCCC/ICCU Delegates,

The letter to the FIDE President, a copy of which you received previously, yielded an invitation from Mr Ilyumzhinov to me for a meeting at Bursa, Turkey, on January 3rd-6th 2010. The following is a brief report of this meeting:

Apart from Mr Ilyumzhinov and me, present at the meeting were: Deputy President Mr Georgios Makropoulos, General Secretary Mr Ignatius Leong, VP Mr Zurab Azmaiparashvili, VP Mr Andrey Selivanov and Hon VP Mr Israel Gelfer.

During this meeting, I drew the attention of all participants to the danger of division within the world of chess composition which was inherent in Mr Selivanov’s proposal to give him the authority to carry out separate chess composition activity bearing the name of the FIDE.

Almost everyone present agreed that such division should be avoided. After some discussion (also in another, smaller group) about future FIDE/ICCU relations, the following two options were offered to us:

Either we continue with our present process of becoming an independent organisation affiliated to the FIDE, or we resume our previous status as the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Composition (PCCC).

This, together with the dismissal of Mr Selivanov's proposal, is included in a resolution by the Presidential Board of the FIDE.

Therefore I think that this is good news! Further, I can inform you that in general during my conversations in Bursa (on and off the record) I found both openness and great understanding of our needs on the part of most FIDE officials, including President Ilyumzhinov, whom we should especially thank for his support and friendship.

Last but not least, dear Delegates, I should be glad to receive your opinions specifically about the path which we should take regarding the future of our organisation, but also about any other matter mentioned above.

Best wishes for the New Year 2010,
Uri Avner, PCCC/ICCU President

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And is it possible to name concretely, at least partially, who are they "we" which decide?

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Personally I am a usual sportsman (solver) and never accepted any significant decisions in chess composition world, nobody and never ask me about my opinion, and I never transferred my voice and the more so did not sell my soul.

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Also I didn't understand who is a foolish old man.

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Album 2007-2009: announcement 1.1.2010, closing date 1.10.2010, most directors and judges have been nominated.