Final results for the 15th International Solving Contest are published! 49 tournaments in 33 countries, 648 solvers from 49 countries. Results and the winners: Category 1 (261 solvers): Piotr Murdzia (POL) – his 6th win of the ISC ! Category 2 (151 solvers): Jonasz Baum (POL) Category 3 (236 solvers): Elgun Pashayev (AZE) See the Overview, Winners of all categories, […]
RGSU Cup 2019 (2nd Alexander Pochinok MT) | 5th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019: Participants: 28 | Winner: Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) ahead of Danila Pavlov (RUS) and Aleksey Popov (RUS)IM norms of Aleksey Popov, Danila Moiseev and Oleg PervakovAverage rating of top ten solvers: 2453.34 | WSC category: 4 Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 67 points, 2. Aleksey […]
The Lithuania Chess Composers’ Society would like to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), chess solvers and chess composers, all those who are interested in chess problems and accompanying persons to attend the 62nd World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 43rd World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC). The congress and […]
“Now we have the completed preliminary results of the ISC 2019. The reports of the Solving Tournament Manager (STM): Preliminary results Cat.1 | Preliminary results Cat.2 | Preliminary results Cat.3 This year we had 648 solvers (cat-1 261, cat-2 151, cat-3 236) from 48 countries and 49 tournaments in 33 countries. Thank you to all local controllers. […]
The World Chess Federation (www.fide.com), with the collaboration of the World Federation for Chess Composition (www.wfcc.ch), is organising the 7th FIDE World Cup in Composing in eight sections. The tournament will be conducted from February 1st to August 1st, 2019. The deadline for entries’ submission is March 1st, 2019. The final results will be published not […]
“This year we had 49 tournaments in 33 countries. There were more than 600 solvers which is a new record. Preliminary result of Cat-1 (solvers with 50+ points): Name Points Time Murdzia 60 215 Nunn 59 217 Caillaud 55 240 Pavlov 54 240 Piorun 53,5 235 Borodavkin 53,5 240 Voigt 52,5 226 Zude 52,5 235 […]
17th Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019: Participants: 16 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU) and Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2418.66 | WSC category: 5 Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 40 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 points, 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 27 points […]
The 2019 Calendar for other rated or remarkable solving tournaments has been created with the first invitation published there. Results, problems and solutions of these tournaments will be published regularly after the tournaments. Tournament organisers are invited to send their announcement of tournaments in advance.
Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019, informs: “At the moment we have 32 countries with 49 tournaments all over the world. New countries: Luxembourg and United Arab Emirates. This is a new record (last year 31 / 46)!”
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2019 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!8 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2018 are included: 3rd Solving Cup Byron Zappas (Greece), 27th Kedainiai Cup (Lithuania), 34th Open Swiss Solving Championship, 11th Albino Cup (Belarus), 1st Pavle Orlov Memorial (Serbia), 25th Belgian Championship , 29th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial (Netherlands), New Year’s Tournament 2019 (Serbia). The ranking of […]
