The Chess Composing Tournament in the frame of the 43^rd World Chess Olympiad 2018 (Batumi, Georgia) has been just announced. The Director of the tournament is Ferad Kakabadze (Ferhat Karmil) (Batumi).

In each section only three compositions by each author are accepted and joint compositions are not allowed. The closing date is September 20^th, 2018. The compositions must be sent via email to the director’s address: admin@chessstar.com. Three medals and certificates are awarded to the winners of each section.

The preliminary results in section G-Fairies (PDF) of the 6^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2018 are published and can be found under the Announcement, in RESULTS section.
The PDF file of the FINAL results is available here.
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

Solvers’ ratings as of April 1^st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
11 tournaments are included for the 1^st quarter 2018: 5^th Greek Chess Solving Cup, 41^st International Polish Championship 2018, 14^th International Solving Contest Cat 1, 12^th Urals Problemist Cup, Grand Prix Moscow (memorial A. P. Pochinka), British Chess Solving Championship 2018, Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2018, 24^th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2018, 27^th Branko Atanackovic Memorial 2018, 42^nd German Solving Championship 2018, Open Solving Championship of CFO. The names of the top ten solvers haven’t changed; but some of them have exchanged their places with Piotr Murdzia as the most prominent one to be 2^nd again in the ranking. The largest three gains have been achieved by Danila Moiseev (RUS / +111.41), Johan de Boer (NED / +56.63 and Konstantin Novikov (RUS / +41.95).

The preliminary results in section A-Twomovers (PDF) of the 6^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2018 are published and can be found under the Announcement, in RESULTS section.
The PDF file of the FINAL results is available here.
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

42^nd German Solving Championship 2018 | 9^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: 
Participants: 32 | Winner: Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) ahead of Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) and Arno Zude (GER – German Champion)
Ulrich Voigt (GER) has achieved an FM norm in the second rated solving tournament he has attended.
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2492.06 | WSC category: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.