World Solving Cup 2016/2017: WCCC Open 2017, Dresden, 7.8.2017Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.600The WSC category of the tournament: 1More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar. Winners of the WSC 2016/2017: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | Bojan Vuckovic (SRB) | Kacper Piorun (POL) The next cycle, WSC 2017/18, will be directed by Marek Kolčák.
(09.08) 41th WCSC – Final Results: Individuals | Teams | Statistics (09.08) 41th WCSC – 2nd day: Preliminary Individual Results | Preliminary Team ResultsProblems | Solutions (08.08) 41th WCSC – 1st day: Preliminary Individual Results | Preliminary Team Results (08.08) Open Solving: Final Results (07.08) Open Solving: Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results
The Final results of the 5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published – A-Twomovers | B-Threemovers | C-Moremovers | D-Endgame studies | E-Helpmates |F-Selfmates | G-Fairies | H-Retros – and can be also found on the bottom of its page.
World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open Czech Chess Solving Championship, Pardubice 15-16.07.2017Winner: Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.386The WSC category of the tournament: 6More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.
The 10th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is completed. In total 38 countries participated in the tournament with 684 compositions in eight sections. The winner of the 10th WCCT is Russia, ahead of Ukraine and Germany. All 38 participating countries received points.See the Preliminary Results of the 10th WCCT and also the Preliminary Award in PDF […]
The web page of the next cycle, WSC 2017/18, has been added with the first registered and announced solving tournaments. The WSC of this cycle will be directed by Marek Kolčák. Vidmantas Satkus and Roland Ott will be Assistant directors.
Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2017 are published! 15 tournaments included: 26th Branko Atanackovic Memorial 2017, 38th Azerbaijan Chess Solving Championship 2017, 41st German Solving Championship 2017, Open Solving Tournament Lithuania 2017, 25th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia, 38th Lithuanian Championship, 11th Urals Problemist Cup, 25th International Championship of Russia, ECSC Riga Open, 13th […]
World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open Ukraine Chess Solving Championship, Sumy 24-25.06.2017Winner: Vladimir Kurilenko (UKR) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.166The WSC category of the tournament: 10More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section B are ready!748 compositions scored at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 993 entries without counting duplicates) – a decent percentage of 75%. The ratio of the 170 selected threemovers with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 22,7%. Many thanks to the director […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section A are ready!One of the initially appointed judges had to quit for personal reasons before the evaluation phase starts and had to be substituted by a reserve judge. There were 1090 compositions scoring at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 1287 entries without counting duplicates) – […]
