20-21.04.24. 17th European Chess Solving Championship in Hagen, Germany. Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans. Day 1: Problems | Solutions Preliminary Results after 3 rounds: Individual | Teams | Short teams 20.04.24. Round 1: #2 – 20 minutes 20.04.24. Round 2: #3 – 60 minutes 20.04.24. Round 3: endgames – 100 minutes
19.04.24. 17:00-20:30 Open Solving tournament in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen. 66 solvers took part. Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans. Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results “The study nr 10 is unsolvable (black wins). See solution. Therefore every solver gets 0 pts for this problem and all full time in 2nd round.”
The new closing date for the 17. ECSC (https://www.ecsc2024.de) to be held at Hagen, Germany at April 19-21, 2024 is March 15, 2024. Entry fee is 60 EUR for registration and payment received until March 15, 75 EUR later (limited availability). For registration the Open Solving tourney only the fee is 20 EUR. One more […]
Invitation to the 17th European Chess Solving Championship Celebrating 100 years of Schwalbe, deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach e.V. Location: Hagen (Westphalia, near Dortmund, Germany)Date: Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 April 2024Venue: FernUniversität Hagen, Informatikzentrum Official website | Invitation in PDF | Please REGISTER by February 15, 2024
31 member countries were present, 4 of them via Zoom connection. Armenia was welcomed as the 44th member country of the Federation. Upcoming events 2024: 20th International Solving Contest (ISC) on 21 January 2024, central organizers Luc Palmans and Arvydas Mockus. 17th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC) in Hagen, Germany 19-21 April 2024. 66th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 47th World Chess […]
14 teams and 75 individuals (2 unofficial without rating calculations) from 18 countries participated in the 16th ECSC.The three top teams: Poland, Lithuania, SlovakiaThe three top individuals: Kacper Piorun (Poland), Piotr Murdzia (Poland), Eddy Van Beers (Belgium) “European championships are returning to their traditional annual rhythm. We are happy that Bratislava was able to welcome the top European […]
(04.06.2023, 14:45) ECSC 2023: Preliminary results after the last (6th) round:INDIVIDUAL | TEAMS Protests accepted until 15:30! (04.06.2023, 13:10) ECSC 2023: Preliminary results after the 5th round:INDIVIDUAL | TEAMS (04.06.2023, 11:30) ECSC 2023: Preliminary results after the 4th round:INDIVIDUAL | TEAMS
(03.06.2023) Two additional solving competitions were held in the frames of ECSC 2023 on Saturday, 03 June 2023. BLIND SOLVING – RESULTS The blind solving tournament is a rapid-fire tournament in the style of quick solving, where problems are presented one by one on a screen. Unlike in ordinary quick solving, where diagrams are shown, […]
ECSC Open Solving 2023 | 12th tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 71 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Jonathan Mestel (GBR) and Eddy Van Beers (BEL)Jakub Marciniszyn (POL) with third FM and second IM Norm!Average rating of top ten solvers: 2557.55 | WSC category: 2Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 90 points (unchanged), 2. Piotr […]
(03.06.2023, 20:08) ECSC 2023: Preliminary results after the 3rd round:INDIVIDUAL | TEAMS (03.06.2023, 13:30) ECSC 2023: Preliminary results after the 2nd round:INDIVIDUAL | TEAMS 1st ROUND gallery: 2nd & 3rd ROUND gallery:
