European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC)

Current Rules

Results (show/hide)

• The first International Solving Contest was organised on the 23rd January, 2005. Invitation and information for the PCCC delegates are on a separate document  (RTF document, 13 kb). The final results indicate that 262 solvers from 23 countries participated in total.
• 2. ISC was held on Sunday January 22, 2006.
  Invitation and information for the PCCC delegates (RTF document 12 kb) | Results
• 3. ISC was held on Sunday January 21st, 2007.
  Results
• 4. ISC was held on Sunday January 27, 2008.
  Invitation and information for the PCCC delegates (RTF document 13 kb) | Results
• 5. ISC January 25, 2009.
  Invitation (MS Word document) | Problems | Solutions | Results
• 6. ISC January 24, 2010, director Peter Bakker.
  Invitation | Invitation (MS Word document) | Problems | Solutions | Results
• 7. ISC January 23, 2011, director Axel Steinbrink.
  Invitation | Invitation (MS Word document) | Problems | Solutions | Results
• 8. ISC January 29, 2012, director Axel Steinbrink.
  Invitation | Invitation (MS Word document) | Problems | Solutions | Results
• 9. ISC January 27, 2013, director Axel Steinbrink.
  Invitation | Invitation (MS Word document) | Problems | Solutions | Results
• 10. ISC January 26, 2014, central controllers: Gligor Denkovski & Ivan Denkovski. 
  Invitation | Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 |
  Solutions  cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Results
• 11. ISC January 25, 2015, central controllers: Gligor Denkovski & Ivan Denkovski.
  Invitation | Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 |
  Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3 | Results
• 12. ISC January 24, 2016, central controllers: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
  Invitation | Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 |
  Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3 | Results
• 13. ISC January 29, 2017, central controllers: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
  Invitation | Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 |
  Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3 | Results
• 14. ISC January 28, 2018, central controllers: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
  Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | 
  Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3  | Results | ISC 2018 statistics | 
  ISC 2018 analysis of study-solutions | statistics of ISCs 1-14
• 15. ISC January 27, 2019, central controllers: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
  Invitation (PDF format) | Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | 
  Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3  | Results | ISC 2019 statistics |
  ISC 2019 analysis of study-solutions

World Solving Cup (WSC)

Current Rules (effective since August 2017)

2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20

Other rated/remarkable solving tournaments

Rated solving tournaments which are not provided by WFCC and are not part of the WSC. 

2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019

Solving Tournaments Problem Database (STPDB)

A database with problems of national and international chess solving tournaments since 1977 created by Luc Palmans. The database will be updated periodically.

Solving Norms

List of all pending solving norms for GM, IM and FM titles, created by the Solving Tournament Manager software.