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World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Saint-Germain au Mont d’Or 03.06.2017

By admin 07/06/2017 07/06/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open French Chess Solving Championship, Saint-Germain au Mont d’Or 03.06.2017
Winner: Michel Caillaud (FRA) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.078
The WSC category of the tournament: 12
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Belgrade 27-28.05.2017

By admin 30/05/2017 30/05/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open Serbian Chess Solving Championship, Belgrade 27-28.05.2017
Winner: Vladimir Podinic (SRB) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.433
The WSC category of the tournament: 5
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 – Preliminary results – G-Fairies

By admin 23/05/2017 23/05/2017 Other

The preliminary results in section G-Fairies (PDF) of the 5^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published and can be found under the Announcement.
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Riga 12.05.2017

By admin 21/05/2017 21/05/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open Latvian Chess Solving Championship, 12.05.2017
Winner: Bojan Vučković (SRB) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.558
The WSC category of the tournament: 2
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

ECSC Riga 2017 News & Final results

By admin 13/05/2017 20/05/2017 ECSC

Organized by the The Latvian Society for Chess Composition, in co-operation with the Riga Chess Federation, the 13^th ECSC took place in the Radisson Blu Daugava hotel, on the bank of the Daugava river. The main competition proved again the dominance of Polish solvers, whose team was accompanied by those of Serbia and Russia. Winners of individual medals were the same as in the WCSC 2016, but this time Piotr Murdzia and Kacper Piorun from Poland exchanged places, ahead of Marjan Kovačević from Serbia. Placement of juniors U23 announced the future might belong to new Russian talents: Danila Pavlov, Aleksey Popov and Svetlana Tishova. The ECSC director Luc Palmans carefully prepared a selection of high quality problems with clear contents, assuring the participants to have the essential pleasure of solving, not only a hard work. →…

(12.05) The ECSC was officially opened by the WFCC president Harry Fougiaxis, after Julia Vysotska greeted all the guests in the name of the organizing team. Competitions began with Open solving tourney that attracted 63 participants from 16 countries, including the guest from Brazil Marcos Roland, and the record number of Latvian solvers. The director, Vidmantas Satkus (Lithuania), selected 14 problems for 180 minutes. In each round there was one fairy problem (Madrasi h#4, 4 Solutions, and S#4 Maximummer), but only 6/7 problems in each round were counted for the final table. The winner of the quite difficult contest was Bojan Vučković (Serbia) with 43 out of 60 possible points, ahead of Kacper Piorun (Poland) and Boris Tummes (Germany). The most successful lady was Laura Rogule (Latvia), supported by her husband and a month old baby (on the photo). The best junior was Danila Pavlov (Russia).

(13.05) The central competition, 13^th European Chess Solving Championship, directed by Luc Palmans (Belgium), began with 15 teams and 68 individual competitors. Between rounds, solvers could have enjoyed the view of the old town on the other side of the Daugava river (on the photo). Preliminary results of the 1^st day: Teams | Individuals.

(13.05) Solving show was run by Vidmantas Satkus, according to the system he proposed in Vilnius ECSC 2013 (Swiss system, 9 rounds, each round consisting of 1 #2, 1 h#2 and 1 S#2, solving time 2 minutes for each problem). Among 26 participants, Aleksandr Bulavka (Belarus) had the best finish and won ahead of Kacper Piorun (Poland) and Andrey Selivanov (Russia).

(13.05) The novelty of Riga ECSC was the so called Baltic Combined competition, suggested and realized by Ilja Ketris (Latvia), one of the organizers. It is kind of biathlon competition, where the ten participants entered their own original problems, following the given thematic condition, and later solved the problems prepared by their rivals.

(14.05) The 2^nd day of the main competition, ECSC results: Teams | Individuals | Problems | Solutions | Presentation of final results with photo gallery.

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Sochi 05.05.2017

By admin 07/05/2017 08/05/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Urals Problemist Cup, Sochi 05.05.2017
Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.355
The WSC category of the tournament: 6
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

WCCC 2017 in Dresden

By admin 04/05/2017 10/05/2017 WCCC/WCSC

Currently about 190 composers, solvers and accompanying persons have announced their participation.

Registration remains open until 15 May 2017, the day after the ECSC in Riga. Also standard registration fee of 100 EUR remains payable until 15 May.

Torsten Linß (on behalf of the organising committee)

Download invitation as PDF | Official website: https://wccc2017.de/

FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section H

By admin 29/04/2017 29/04/2017 FIDE Albums

The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section H are ready!
Retro composers have always been careful to select their highest-quality compositions to be considered for the album and the 2013-15 cycle could not be an exception. 88.8% of the submitted entries scored at least 4.5 points and 27.5% out of them were selected. The figures are impressive even if the absolute number of entries is limited, which obviously helps in having such high percentages.

Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.

5th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 – Preliminary results – D-Endgame studies

By admin 27/04/2017 27/04/2017 Other

The preliminary results in section D-Endgame studies (PDF) of the 5^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2017 are published and can be found under the Announcement.
Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Sliac 22-23.04.2017

By admin 27/04/2017 27/04/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Slovakia Chess Solving Championship 2017, Sliac 22-23.04.2017
Winner: Marek Kolčák (SVK) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.241
The WSC category of the tournament: 9
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.