19.04.24. 17:00-20:30 Open Solving tournament in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen. 66 solvers took part. Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans. Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results “The study nr 10 is unsolvable (black wins). See solution. Therefore every solver gets 0 pts for this problem and all full time in 2nd round.”
32nd Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2024 | 10th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 16 | Winner: Tomáš Peitl (SVK – Slovakian champion!) ahead of Vasil Ďačuk (SVK) and Valery Kopyl (UKR).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2106.29 | WSC category: 11Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points, 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points, […]
43rd Azerbaijan Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 9th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 44 | Winner: Misratdin Iskandarov (AZE – Azerbaijan champion!) ahead of Amil Abbasov (AZE) and Araz Almammadov (AZE)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2046.48 | WSC category: 13Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points, 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points, 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points, 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points.More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
45th Lithuanian Championship 2024 | 8th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 12 | Winner: Dmitrijus Chocenka (LTU – Lithuanian champion!) ahead of Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) and Martynas Limontas (LTU).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2140.88 | WSC category: 11Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (unchanged), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points (+4), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points (+2), 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points (unchanged). 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points (unchanged).More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2024 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.8 tournaments of the 1st quarter 2024 are included: 20th International Solving Contest 2024 Cat 1, 20th International Solving Contest 2024 Cat 2, Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2024, 45th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2024, 47th International Polish Championship 2024, 29th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2024, […]
The 8th Youth Chess Composing Challenge (YCCC) is the first composing tournament in the context of the Jurmala WCCC 2024. The same as the previous editions, the 8th YCCC will be open to the U23 generation (born no earlier than 01.01.2001) from all the countries, and to all different genres of chess composition. This time the special prizes for the best composers are […]
29th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 20 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Michael Pfannkuche (GER) and Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE).Dolf Wissmann (5th and Dutch Champion) ahead of Joost Michielsen (6th) and Hans Uitenbroek (8th-9th).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2391.19 | WSC category: 6Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (+23), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 46 points (unchanged), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points (unchanged), 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points (+6). 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points (+16).More details […]
47th International Polish Championship 2024 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 23 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL – Polish champion!) ahead of Jakub Marciniszyn (POL) and Martynas Limontas (LTU).Jakub Marciniszyn with 1st GM and 3rd IM norm – the first ever GM norm not achieved at ECSC/WCSC or any of their Open solving tournaments!Average rating of top ten solvers: 2425.90 | WSC category: 5Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 69 points (unchanged), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 46 points (+19), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points (unchanged), 4. […]
Winners across all age groups of the WFCC Online Solving Challenge for Youth 1st round were: all with 100% scores (Maksim & Danila were the quicker). There were 34 solvers in each discipline. Age group winners were: Classical Blitz Scores 9-10 Luka Tyrtyshnikov Luka Tyrtyshnikov 12 & 84 11-12 Viktoriya Kharitonova Timur Parpiev 30 […]
45th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 5th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:Participants: 16 | Winner: Jorma Paavilainen (FIN – Finnish champion!) ahead of Kari Karhunen (FIN) and Paavo Tikka (FIN).Average rating of top ten solvers: 2120.16 | WSC category: 11Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 69 points, 2. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points, 3. Roland Ott (SUI) 29 points, 4. David Hodge (GBR) 29 points, 5. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 27 points.More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving […]
