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World Solving Cup 2022/2023 – Sękocin Stary 04./05.03.2023

March 11, 2023

46th International Polish Championship 2023 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 28 | Winner: Kacper Piorun (POL – Polish Champion!) ahead of Piotr Murdzia (POL) and junior Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU – 3rd FM norm and FM title!)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2424.75 | WSC category: 5Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 45 points (+16), 2. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 36 points (+19), 3. Kacper Piorun (POL) 27 points (+27), 4. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 23 points (+23), 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 23 […]

World Solving Cup 2022/2023 – Nunspeet 04.03.2023

March 6, 2023

28th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2023 | 3rd tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 19 | Winner: Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) ahead of Eddy Van Beers (BEL) and Richard Dobiáš (SVK – 2nd FM norm!)5th Place Peter van den Heuvel (Dutch Champion)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2375.81 | WSC category: 6Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 points (unchanged), 2. Nikos […]

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World Solving Cup 2022/2023 – Helsinki 18.02.2023

February 22, 2023

44th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2023 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2022/2023:Participants: 18 | Winner: Dolf Wissmann (NED) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU) and ex aequo Jorma Paavilainen (FIN – Finnish Champion!)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2220.50 | WSC category: 9Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 (+10), 2. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 17 points (+4), 3. Arno Zude (GER) 16 points, 4. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 13 points […]

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ISC 2023 – FINAL results

February 13, 2023

19th International Solving Contest (ISC) 29th January 2023 We had 38 tournaments in 26 countries and 601 solvers (+15 unofficial solvers in cat-3) – 181 solvers in cat-1, 172 solvers in cat-2 and 248 solvers in cat-3. Thank you to all local controllers for their excellent work and good cooperation and congratulations to the winners. If you […]

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16th European Chess Solving Championship

February 8, 2023

Slovak Organisation for Chess Composition is honoured to invite European national teams and individual solvers to attend the 16th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC). The ECSC will be held from Friday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 4th at the Falkensteiner Hotel, Pilárikova ulica 5, 811 03 Bratislava. Activities: ECSC, 1st and 2nd day (director Marko Klasinc, Slovenia) | […]

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International Day of Chess Composition

January 4, 2023

In 2007, our organization accepted the idea of the famous Ukrainian Grandmaster of Chess Composition Valentin Rudenko (1938-2016) to name January 4th as the International Day of Chess Composition. According to the proposal, on January 4th 1869, the Czech (Bohemian at that time) magazine “Svetozor” published an article by Antonín König (1836-1911) where he described chess composition as an […]

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Solvers’ ratings January 1^st 2023

January 1, 2023

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2023 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.10 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2022 are included: 31st Kedainiai Cup 2022, 37th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2022, 27th Belgian Championship 2022, 31st Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2022 Cat A, 3rd Branko Babic Memorial 2022, 4th Ukrainian Cup 2022, Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2022, 45th World Chess Solving Championship 2022, 4th Pavle Orlov Memorial 2022, 7th Greek […]

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Happy New Year 2023!

December 31, 2022

The year behind was crowded with official composing and solving events, thanks to the judges and organizers who worked hard in 2022. January brought 18th International Solving Contest, another successful edition run by ever passionate Axel Steinbrink. In March, the Solving Committee has made another step forward, introducing the very informative Solving Portal on our […]

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Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2022

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64.WCCC: Look back

November 28, 2022

The first ever World Congress of Chess Composition in Arabian Peninsula was held from 12th to 19th November 2022. Behind the results and decisions of the 64th WCCC in Fujairah – to be found on the official WCCC 2022 website – some important general aspects of this adventure – for both participants and organizers – […]