Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!7 tournaments are included for the 3rd quarter 2018: 2nd Russian Women Chess Solving Cup 2018, Chess solving tournament ‘Day of family’ (Russia), 26th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2018, 1st Ukrainian Cup 2018, Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2018, 42nd World Chess Solving Championship 2018, Open Men’s Solving […]
The WFCC is inviting composers of all countries to participate in the 2016-18 WCCI. The tourney director is Dmitry Turevsky (email: dmitri.turevski@gmail.com). The competition will be held according to the system used in the previous championship, with changes in the points 4, 5, 8 and 12 of the rules. WCCI 2016-18 WCCI 2013-15 4. A composer may […]
The 42nd WCSC‘s summary page presents team and individual results, photos of the winners, the introductory words by competition director Ivan Denkovski: “As the director, I should better refrain from any predictions about the outcome of the championship, but nevertheless, I can say that it will really be a surprise if Poland does not continue […]
The World Solving Cup calendar of the next cycle, WSC 2018/2019, has been updated with the registered and announced solving tournaments. Director: Roland Ott. Assistant Directors: Marek Kolčák and Axel Steinbrink.
The following solving documents are updated after the 61st WCCC: Rules: WCSC/ECSC | ISC | Solvers’ rating, rated tournaments, norms Titles: Application form for the FIDE Solving Judge title: Word file (doc) for download
26 member countries were present. Neal Turner acted as substitute secretary. WCCT: Mikalai Sihnevich (BLR) will be the director of the 11th WCCT. Countries are urged to submit their theme-proposals and inform about the sections they are willing to judge by 15 November 2018. The contact person is the WCCT committee spokesman, Georgy Evseev, 10wcct@gmail.com (same email address as in […]
The 42nd World Chess Solving Championship brought the titles and new records to Piotr Murdzia and his team of Poland. Polish solvers became World champions for the 10th consecutive time, while Murdzia himself celebrated 8th individual win! The decade of Polish domination was rounded by the individual silver of the previous champion Kacper Piorun, after […]
04.09.2018. 42nd WCSC, day 1: Preliminary individual results | Preliminary team results Open Solving tournament in the frames of the 61st WCCC: Final results | Problems | Solutions | Solving norms | Statistics 05.09.2018. Machine Gun Results (director: Borislav Gadjanski) | Problems 05.09.2018. 42nd WCSC: Preliminary individual results | Preliminary team results | Problems | Solutions | Preliminary solving normsPlease […]
01.09.2018. In the Metropol hotel, on the beautiful lake of Ohrid, 61st WCCC was opened with musical program and welcome speeches. As a part of the opening ceremony, the results of the pre-congress competitions were announced. The medals, certificates and cups were given to the winners of the 3rd YCCC (on the photo: Alexey Popov, […]
26th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 18th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Participants: 26 | Winner: Andrey Selivanov (RUS) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU) and Vidmantas Satkus (LTU)10th Martin Petr (CZE) Czech ChampionAverage rating of top ten solvers: 2336.45 | WSC category: 7Leaders World Solving Cup:1. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 122 points, 2. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 115 points, 3. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) […]
