Final results for the 10th International Solving Contest are published! 36 tournaments in 30 countries, 488 solvers from 34 countries. Category 1 (290 solvers): 1) Piotr Murdzia (POL), 2)-3) Marko Filipovic (CRO), 2)-3) Kacper Piorun (POL) Category 2 (198 solvers): 1) Jeyhun Huseynzada (AZE), 2) Arie Kozer (ISR), 3) Chris Maes (BEL) Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2
The Corporation for Sportive Tourism in Montenegro and the Montenegro Chess Federation have the pleasure to invite all chess solvers and chess composition friends to attend the 10th European Chess Solving Championship in Igalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro.The director of the championship and of the open tournament will be Ryszard Królikowski (FIDE Solving Judge).
Minutes of WCCC2013 Batumi meeting (pdf 192 kb) and Annex with Financial report 2013 (pdf 194 kb) are added to the Meetings/Batumi section! Note: Soon after the distribution of the minutes to the delegates, we received the happy news that the ARVES Study Solving Day and the ISC in the Netherlands will be held on Saturday-Sunday, January 25th-26th 2014 in […]
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2014 are published! Tournaments included: 24.Henk Hagedoorn Memorial, OPEN Warsaw, XII. GP Warsaw. The three top solvers are Piotr Murdzia, Georgy Evseev and John Nunn. Congratulations!And a Happy New Year to everybody!
The International Solving Contest next year will take place on Sunday January 26th 2014. The event is happening simultaneously in all participating countries. There will be two sections: one for the experienced solvers. In this section solvers can obtain rating points.The second section is intended for weaker, inexperienced solvers and for youth. This second section is […]
The full version of Batumi 2013 bulletin (PDF, 88 pages) compiled by Harry Fougiaxis includes the schedule, participants, results of solving competitions, and the Awards of all composing tournaments! Enjoy!
Solvers’ ratings as of October 1st 2013 are published! Tournaments included: CZECH OPEN Pardubice, Batumi OPEN, 37.WCSC Batumi. The three top solvers are Piotr Murdzia, Georgy Evseev and John Nunn. Congratulations!
Decisions of the 56th WССС, Batumi, are published! The highlights are: The results of the 9th WCCT and of the 2010-12 WCCI confirmed final; A section for retros will be introduced in the next WCCT; FIDE Albums 2007-09 & 2010-2012; New titles; place and time of 10th ISC, 10th ECSC, 57th WCCC and 38th WCSC. Some photos sent by Franziska Iseli (many thanks!) are also added.
See the official results of 37th World Chess Solving Championship, Batumi, 24-25.09.2013!“Сlear win in the team-competition for Poland (5th win in a row – unbeaten since 2009). Close race for individual-competition: 7th title for Piotr Murdzia. Arno Zude prevents total success for Poland (place 1, 3 and 4 in individual ranking)!” (Axel Steinbrink, Director)
See the official results of Open Solving Tournament Batumi, 23rd September 2013!The winners are Ofer Comay (Israel) and Arno Zude (Germany).Congratulations to the winners and to all participants!
