52nd Latvian Chess Solving Championship 2026 | 18th and second-to-last tournament of World Solving Cup 2025/2026:Participants: 14 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU), ahead of Arvydas Mockus (LTU) and Vidmantas Satkus (LTU).5th Place junior solver Renārs Mūzis (Latvian Champion!)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2086.69 | WSC category: 10Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 96 points (unchanged), […]
8th Ukrainian Solving Cup 2026 | 17th tournament of World Solving Cup 2025/2026:Participants: 17 | Winner: Andrii Sergiienko (UKR), ahead of Taras Rudenko (UKR) and Oleksiy Solovchuk (UKR).Average rating of top ten solvers: 1976.99 | WSC category: 10Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 96 points, 2. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 80 points, 3. David Hodge (GBR) 70 points, 4. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 66 points, 5. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 54 points.More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving […]
34th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2026 | 16th tournament of World Solving Cup 2025/2026:Participants: 20 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU), ahead of Vasil Ďačuk (SVK) and Vasil Markovcij (CZE – Czech Champion!).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2129.86 | WSC category: 10Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 96 points (unchanged), 2. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 80 points (unchanged), 3. David Hodge (GBR) 70 points (unchanged), 4. Martynas Limontas (LTU) […]
Open Solving Championship of Serbia 2026 | 15th tournament of World Solving Cup 2025/2026:Participants: 19 | Winner: Danila Pavlov (FID), ahead of Miodrag Mladenović (SRB – Serbian Champion!) and Bojan Vučković (SRB).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2478.18 | WSC category: 4Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 96 points (+22), 2. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 80 points (unchanged), […]
On the occasion of the 19th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC), organised by the chess club “Gambit” ASSECO-SEE with the support of the Chess Federation of North Macedonia, in the country’s capital Skopje from 8 to 10 May 2026, an Internet composing tourney was announced for mates in 3 moves (#3) and helpmates in 2.5 […]
09.05.26. One of the side-events during the 19.ECSC was the so called Machine Gun, the competition in quick solving problems in two moves (#2, h#2, S#2). Borislav Gadjanski selected the problems and directed the event that attracted 43 solvers. As in the main solving competitions, it was dominated by Danila Pavlov, with Kacper Piorun and […]
09-10.05.2026, 19th European Chess Solving Championship – FINAL RESULTS: The 20th Chess Olympiad, held in Skopje in 1972, featured the first Olympic meeting of problemists, including a solving tourney directed by my father Gligor Denkovski. Half a century later, it was an honour for me to take on such a role at another major gathering […]
Open Solving tournament of ECSC 2026 | 14th tournament of World Solving Cup 2025/2026:Participants: 77 | Winner: Danila Pavlov (FID), ahead of junior solvers Ural Khasanov (FID) and Maksim Kharitonov (FID).GM title norms of Maksim Kharitonov (FID) and Bilguun Sumiya (MGL), IM and FM norm of Anton Nasyrov (FID), FM norm of Egor Sokolov (FID) and […]
08.05.2026: ECSC Open 2026. Ivan Denkovski selected 12 problems for traditional ECSC Open and directed the competition that attracted 77 participants. Preliminary RESULTS | Problems | Solutions 09.05.2026. ECSC Open 2026 FINAL RESULTS | NORMS | Problems | Solutions – Ivan Denkovski, Director of Open Tourney
08.05.2026: The program of the 19th European Chess Solving Championship started with a press conference in the Continental Hotel, the venue of the event. The main ECSC organizer Zoran Stojčevski, the president of Chess Federation of North Macedonia Saša Bogdanović, the WFCC President Marjan Kovačević, and the WFCC 1st Vice-President Abdulla Ali Aal Barket adressed […]
