Russian Oleg Pervakov is the old and new world champion of endgame studies.

Congratulations!!

 Pervakov, Oleg 1960

The scores of the studies section of the 2016-2018 WCCI have been released, securing Pervakov the honours for the fourth time, this time scoring 42,5 points.

 
Compared to the last cycle where Pervakov won with 5,5 points' lead,
the race this time around was much closer.
 
Winning silver is Martin Minski (Germany) with 41,25 points
 
 
followed by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark) with 40,5
 
 
 
and Sergey Didukh (Ukraine) close behind in fourth with 40.
 
 
 
The judges of the championship were Harold van der Heijden (The Netherlands),
Martin Minski (Germany), Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark),
Peter Gyarmati (Hungary) and Arpad Rusz (Romania). 40 composers competed for the title.
 
Studies scoring more than 8  (of 12) points in the WCCI automatically qualify for the FIDE Album.
There were 65 such studies, including all six studies by the top 6 composers.
 
Below are the studies scoring at least 8 points in this championship, thus making it into the FIDE Album.