28th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2020 | 9th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 10 | Winner: Tomáš Peitl (SVK – Slovakian champion) ahead of Richard Dobiáš (SVK) and Marek Kolčák (SVK) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2021.72 | WSC category: 13 41st Lithuanian Championship 2020 | 10th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: […]
28th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2020 | 8th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 11 | Winner: Miloslav Vanka (CZE – Czech champion) ahead of Marek Kolčák (SVK) and Miroslav Voracek (CZE)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2036.72 | WSC category: 13Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 86 points (unchanged), 2. Piotr […]
The International Solving Contest – ISC – next year will take place on Sunday January 24th 2021. The event is happening simultaneously in all participating countries. The name of the locally appointed controller must reach the central controllers Axel Steinbrink and Luc Palmans by e-mail no later than December 31st 2020: axel.steinbrink@gmx.de / palmans.luc@skynet.be I hope that even more local controllers will use the official WFCC […]
Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2020 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! Due to the Corona pandemic no rated solving tournament occurred in the 2nd quarter 2020. Therefore the rating of all solvers remains unchanged.
Due to the Corona pandemic all WSC tournaments since March 2020 had to be cancelled or postponed. To enable those countries to have a WSC tournament in the current cycle the WFCC Solving Committee has decided the following one-time rule change which is also supported by the members of the WFCC presidium: The cycle 2019/2020 […]
The WCCC 2020 organizing team had an extensive meeting during the weekend and we concluded that the WCCC 2020 should be canceled. We informed the Presidium and all members agreed with our decision. Our main concern is that nobody can really predict what the situation will be with regard to the COVID-19 in October both […]
“Special times require special measures. About the origin and the rules of the first (and hopefully the last) Lockdown Solving Tournament you can read in an earlier article. The response was very nice: 67 solvers took part last Saturday. The level was quite high: 6 out of the top 10; some 40 out of the […]
The Corona pandemic made an abrupt end to all the solving competitions. At the moment we can’t predict when we will meet again. With a few small steps we will try to fill the gap. The two first tournaments which had to be cancelled because of the pandemic were the Dutch and the German Open. […]
Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2020 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 13 tournaments of the 1st quarter 2020 are included: Open Solving A. Suetin Memorial 2020, A. Suetin Memorial 2020, 43rd International Polish Championship 2020, 16th International Solving Contest 2020 Cat. 1, 16th International Solving Contest 2020 Cat. 2, 14th Urals Problemist Cup, RGSU-Cup […]
As a result of the growing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on people’s lives all around the globe and taking into account the reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating the constant increase in the number of cases worldwide, WFCC has decided to postpone the 15th European Chess Solving Championship that was scheduled for […]
