This year we have nearly 900 solvers in 31 countries who participated in the 16th ISC. This is the preliminary TOP10 result: Pl. Name Country Pts Time 1 Voigt GER 60 232 2 Piorun POL 58,75 210 3 Viktorov RUS 58 224 4 Van Beers BEL 56,75 210 5 Tummes GER 56,75 230 6 […]
Last year, the solving committee worked on a set of guidelines for the directors of rated solving tournaments. The preliminary text was accepted at the last WCCC in Vilnius. Julia Vysotska wrote a Russian translation, for which we are very grateful. Guidelines for solving tournaments: English | Russian We hope that tournament directors take a […]
Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2020, informs: “At the moment we have 32 countries with 43 tournaments all over the world“
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2020 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published! 9 tournaments of the 4th quarter 2019 are included: 26th Belgian Championship 2019, 28th Kedainiai chess solving cup tourney 2019, Open Solving Championship of Tula region 2019, 2nd Pavle Orlov Memorial 2019, 12th Albino Cup 2019, 30th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2019, New Year’s Tournament 2020, 18th Warsaw Grand Prix 2019 […]
18th Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 16 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Aleksey Popov (RUS)Junior solver Maksim Romanov with first FM norm.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2463.01 | WSC category: 4Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 62 points (+31), […]
Hannu Harkola has updated the FIDE Album Index by adding the last three Albums. The booklet (A4, 210 pages, PDF) contains the combined registers of all 24 published FIDE Albums 1914-2015. It is in the same location as the previous version: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/books/FIDE_Album_Index.pdf. On WFCC website the Album Index can be found on the bottom of […]
12th Albino Cup 2019 | 3rd tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 28 | Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) ahead of Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) and Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR)Aleksandr Bulavka Belarus champion with 4th place.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2434.77 | WSC category: 5Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 31 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 points […]
The International Solving Contest – ISC – next year will take place on Sunday January 26th 2020. The event is happening simultaneously in all participating countries. The name of the locally appointed controller must reach the central controllers Axel Steinbrink and Luc Palmans by e-mail no later than December 31st 2019: axel.steinbrink@gmx.de / palmans.luc@skynet.be There are two changes of the rules compared with ISC 2019: 1. […]
26th Open Belgian Solving Championship 2019 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 12 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL – Belgian champion) ahead of Dolf Wissmann (NED) and Andrey Selivanov (RUS)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2272.49 | WSC category: 8Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 31 points, 2. Michel Caillaud (FRA) 27 […]
