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), […]
12th Albino Cup 2019 | 3rd tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 28 | Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) ahead of Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) and Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR)Aleksandr Bulavka Belarus champion with 4th place.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2434.77 | WSC category: 5Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 31 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 points […]
The International Solving Contest – ISC – next year will take place on Sunday January 26th 2020. 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 2019: axel.steinbrink@gmx.de / palmans.luc@skynet.be There are two changes of the rules compared with ISC 2019: 1. […]
26th Open Belgian Solving Championship 2019 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 12 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL – Belgian champion) ahead of Dolf Wissmann (NED) and Andrey Selivanov (RUS)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2272.49 | WSC category: 8Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 31 points, 2. Michel Caillaud (FRA) 27 […]
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2019 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published – including the first solving tournament with rating calculations according the new rating system! 9 tournaments of the 3rd quarter 2019 are included: Open Solving Tournament Yaroslavl 2019, Open Tournament to Launch Chess Compositions in Memory of Leo Kapusty (1919-1990), 2nd Ukrainian Cup 2019, 27th Czech […]
35th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2019 | 1st tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 22 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Michel Caillaud (FRA) and Martynas Limontas (LTU) 8. Roland Baier (SUI – Swiss champion), 5. junior solver Danila Moiseev with 3rd IM norm Average rating of top ten solvers: 2478.87 | WSC category: 4 Top 5 World Solving […]
The Chess Composition Committee of the Ukrainian Chess Federation, Poltava Region Chess Federation, Poltava City Organization of Poltava Region Chess Federation have the honour to invite the European national teams and individual solvers of Europe and World to participate in the 15th European Chess Solving Championship. The event will be held from Friday, April 24rd […]
By Ryszard Królikowski, the 43rd WCSC director: “The 43rd WCSC competition brought a tensed and exciting fight for the highest places. Finally, Piotr Górski (POL) won, having the most consistent results during all six rounds. Besides, he fulfilled the 4th GM norm and obtained the desired title. He is the first World Champion without an international title in […]
After a fascinating race in the last rounds the Russian European Champion 2019, junior solver Danila Pavlov (RUS) has won the 4th World Solving Cup. There have been 19 tournaments including the Open Solving of the ECSC and the WCCC with total of 85 World Cup points winning solvers.Final top five: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 139 […]
23.08.2019 The results of the official tournaments: 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge (the bulletin of 33 pages) The Official 5 days Composing Tourney’s preliminary results Quick Composing Tourney’s #2 preliminary results Quick Composing Tourney’s h#2 results 22.08.2019 FINAL results of the 43rd WCSC problems | solutions | final individual results | juniors results | seniors results […]
