Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019/2020 | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 32 | Winner: John Nunn (GBR – British champion) ahead of Eddy Van Beers (BEL), Martynas Limontas (LTU), Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR) and Dolf Wissmann (NED) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2444.21 | WSC category: 5Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Aleksey […]
The results of ISC 2020 are final as of 25th of February, 2020. 48 tournaments in 31 countries, 885 solvers from 47 countries. The overall winners by category: Category 1 (202 solvers): Ulrich Voigt, GER (1st place), Kacper Piorun, POL (2nd place), Evgeny Viktorov, RUS (3rd place) Category 2 (241 solvers): Alexander Smirnov, RUS (1st place), Miķelis Emīls Miķelsons, LAT (2nd place), Bartosz Świątek, […]
Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2020 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 18 | Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) ahead of Maksim Romanov (RUS), Kari Karhunen (FIN – Finnish champion), Dolf Wissmann (NED) and Terho Marlo (FIN) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2236.23 | WSC category: 9Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 86 points (+13), 2. Piotr […]
“Now we have the completed preliminary results of the ISC 2020. The reports of the Solving Tournament Manager (STM): Preliminary results Cat.1 | Preliminary results Cat.2 | Preliminary results Cat.3 This year we had 885 solvers (cat-1 202, cat-2 241, cat-3 442) from 47 countries and 48 tournaments in 31 countries. Thank you to all local controllers. […]
RGSU-Cup 2020 (3rd Alexander Pochinok Memorial Tourney) | 5th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 32 | Winner: Danila Pavlov (RUS) ahead of Aleksey Popov (RUS), Ural Hasanov (RUS), Mihail Ganzhin (RUS) and Danila Moiseev (RUS) 13 years old Ural Hasanov (RUS) with first FM and IM norm! Mihail Ganzhin (RUS) with first FM norm Average rating of top ten […]
This year we have nearly 900 solvers in 31 countries who participated in the 16th ISC. This is the preliminary TOP10 result: Pl. Name Country Pts Time 1 Voigt GER 60 232 2 Piorun POL 58,75 210 3 Viktorov RUS 58 224 4 Van Beers BEL 56,75 210 5 Tummes GER 56,75 230 6 […]
Last year, the solving committee worked on a set of guidelines for the directors of rated solving tournaments. The preliminary text was accepted at the last WCCC in Vilnius. Julia Vysotska wrote a Russian translation, for which we are very grateful. Guidelines for solving tournaments: English | Russian We hope that tournament directors take a […]
Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2020, informs: “At the moment we have 32 countries with 43 tournaments all over the world“
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2020 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 9 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2019 are included: 26th Belgian Championship 2019, 28th Kedainiai chess solving cup tourney 2019, Open Solving Championship of Tula region 2019, 2nd Pavle Orlov Memorial 2019, 12th Albino Cup 2019, 30th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2019, New Year’s Tournament 2020, 18th Warsaw Grand Prix 2019 […]
18th Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 16 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Aleksey Popov (RUS)Junior solver Maksim Romanov with first FM norm.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2463.01 | WSC category: 4Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 62 points (+31), […]
