Category Archives: 6 – WSC

World Solving Cup 2015/2016 – Bratislava & Nunspeet 12-13.03.2016

  March 15, 2016 - 9:45 pm |
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World Solving Cup 2015/2016:
(1) 24th International Chess Solving Championship OF Slovakia 2016 (12-13.03.2016)
Winner: Marek Kolčák (SVK) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.318
The WSC category of the tournament: 4
(2) Open Dutch Solving Championship 2016 (12.03.2016)
Winner: Dolf Wissmann (NED) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.453
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

  August 23, 2015 - 10:30 pm |
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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.