Saturday, 17 August
| Arrival | ||
| from 14:00 | Registration | at Crowne Plaza hotel |
| 19:00 | Opening ceremony | restaurant “Horizontas” |
Sunday, 18 August
| 10:00-13:00 | Excursion (Vilnius) | from Crowne Plaza hotel |
| 15:00 | Opening session of the World Federation for Chess Composition | “Koralinė” hall |
| 18:00 | Captains meeting for the 43rd World Chess Solving Championship | “Koralinė” hall |
| 20:00 | Quick Composing Tourney | “Safyrinė” hall |
Monday, 19 August
| 10:00 | Open Solving Tourney | “Safyrinė” hall |
| 15:00 | Committees sessions of the World Federation for Chess Composition | “Koralinė” hall |
| 20:00 |
Lectures: Two ways of composing studies (Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen) Practical chess beauty (Yochanan Afek) Feenschach-70-JT: make & take (Bernd Ellinghoven) Some helpmates with Guy Sobrecases (Jacques Rotenberg) Proof games #color (Paul Raican) | “Safyrinė” hall |
Tuesday, 20 August
| 10:00 | 1st day of the 43rd World Chess Solving Championship | “Safyrinė” hall |
| 15:00 | Committees sessions of the World Federation for Chess Composition | “Koralinė” hall |
| 20:00 | Quick Show | “Safyrinė” hall |
| 20:45 | Lectures: Selfmates with Nikoletic theme (Andrey Selivanov) New features in helpmate analyzer (Viktoras Paliulionis) STM for solvers (Axel Steinbrink) Slide show 1969-2018 (Hannu Harkola) | “Safyrinė” hall |
Wednesday, 21 August
| 10:00 | 2nd day of the 43rd World Chess Solving Championship | “Safyrinė” hall |
| 15:00 | Session of the World Federation for Chess Composition | “Koralinė” hall |
| 20:00 | Solving Show | “Safyrinė” hall |
Thursday, 22 August
| 10:00-21:00 | Excursion (Norviliskes) – don’t forget your ID document | from Crowne Plaza hotel |
Friday, 23 August
| 11:00 | Closing session of the World Federation for Chess Composition | “Gintarinė” hall |
| 15:00 | Prize-giving: 7th FIDE world cup in composing (Andrey Selivanov) Olympic Tournament in composing 2018 (David Gurgenidze) 4th Youth chess composing challenge (Julia Vysotska) 15th International solving contest (Axel Steinbrink) Open Solving Tourney (Vidmantas Satkus) 6th Israel open solving championship (Paz Einat) Internet composing tourney (Vilimantas Satkus) Quick composing tourney (Borisas Gelpernas) Vilnius 5-day composing tourney (Viktoras Paliulionis) Other composing tourneys: Romanian tzuica (Vlaicu Crisan) Azemmour (Abdelaziz Onkoud) Murfatlar (Paul Raican) Vodka (Andrey Selivanov) Champagne (Michel Caillaud) Japanese sake (Tadashi Wakashima) Ukrainian folk crafts (Valeriy Kopyl) ARVES Jenever (Marcel Van Herck) SABRA (Menachem Witztum) Moscow Matryoshka (Dmitri Turevski) | “Safyrinė” hall |
| 19:00 | Closing banquet Award of diplomas to new composing and solving title holders (Harry Fougiaxis) Prize-giving for the 2016-2018 World Championship in Composing for Individuals (Dmitri Turevski) Prize-giving for the 2018/2019 World Solving Cup (Roland Ott) Prize-giving for the 43rd World Chess Solving Championship (Axel Steinbrink) | “Safyrinė” hall |
Saturday, 24 August
| Departure |
Lunch time: 13:30 (at Crowne Plaza) and 14:00 (at Europa City)
Dinner time: 18:30 (at Crowne Plaza) and 18:00 (at Europa City)