Category Archives: 6 – WSC

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: Finnish Solving Championship, Helsinki – 27.02.2016
Winner: Kari Karhunen (FIN) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.219
The WSC category of the tournament: 5
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: British Solving Championship, Eton - 20.02.2016
Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.482
The WSC category of the tournament: 3
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: Belgium Solving Championship, Geel - 14.11.2015
Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.353
The WSC category of the tournament: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 14.-15.11.2015
Winner: Piotr Gorski (POL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.482 
The WSC category of the tournament: 3
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: 8^th ALBINO CUP Belarus, Minsk 31.10. – 1.11.2015
Winner: Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.364 
The WSC category of the tournament: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2015/2016: Swiss Solving Championship, Bern 17. 10. 2015
Winner: Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.375
The WSC category of the tournament: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2015/16 Calendar.

World Solving Cup (WSC) 2015/2016

Current Rules

Short review:

• The World Solving Cup and its rules were established at the Ostróda WCCC.
• The WSC includes rated tournaments organized by countries – FIDE members. Each country may nominate one such tournament which should be open for all.
• A season of the WSC is a period between the two WFCC congresses, with the WCCC Open as the final tournament of a season.
• Countries should register their tournaments to be included in the WSC before or during the WFCC congress, but not more than one month later. A list of registered tournaments is published on the WFCC site. The official announcement of each tournament (or a link to it) is published on the WFCC site at least two months before it starts.
• The best solvers from each tournament get WSC points. Depending on the category of a tournament a specific number of the best placed solvers get points. Tournaments are sorted into seven categories depending on the average rating of the ten participating solvers with the highest ratings.
• The sum of a solver’s four best tournaments is taken into account for the WSC final result.
• The Director for WSC 2015/16 is Marko Klasinc - marko@mar-vik.si or marko.klasinc@guest.arnes.si. Announcements and any questions are to be addressed to him. Assistant Directors are Marek Kolcak and Vidmantas Satkus.

A WSC subsection with rules and calendar of the tournaments is published in the Competitions/Solving section.

Related note:
Solving tourneys database by Luc Palmans is updated and moved to http://www.kunstschach.ch/pdb.html. The database provides problems of tournaments since 1977 and will be updated periodically with new and missing problems.