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FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section B

By admin 24/06/2017 28/05/2018 FIDE Albums

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 and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

Update 28.5.2018: A selected #3, which is already included in the 2010-12 album, is now removed from the list.

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page. The current list of album points has been also updated. The next update will be after the remaining sections of FA 2013-15 are finished.

FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section A

By admin 18/06/2017 19/05/2020 FIDE Albums

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) – a very decent percentage of almost 85%. The ratio of the 192 selected twomovers with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 17,6%.

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

Update (01.07.2017): A composer informed us that he would like to withdraw his entries; he did not clarify the reason. Although we regret his decision, we have to respect it. The page of the results was updated accordingly.

Update (02.07.2017): Thanks to the director’s effort, the composer changed his mind; we are glad he did. The results were updated accordingly.

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

Multi-locations tournament – 4th Israel Open, Final results

By admin 18/06/2017 18/06/2017 Other

The results of the multi-locations tournament – 4^th Israel Open Solving Championship 2017 – are published on the page of the Other rated solving tournaments 2017. The tournament has been won by Tomáš Peitl ahead of Martynas Limontas and Evgeny Viktorov, all with the maximum of 60 points.

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Ramat-Gan 11.06.2017

By admin 17/06/2017 17/06/2017 WSC

World Solving Cup 2016/2017: Open Israel Chess Solving Championship, Ramat-Gan 11.06.2017
Winner: Ofer Comay (ISR) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.072
The WSC category of the tournament: 12
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section D

By admin 07/06/2017 07/06/2017 FIDE Albums

The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section D are ready!
The initially appointed director had to quit in the middle of the process for personal reasons; in agreement with the spokesman of the studies committee, Siegfried Hornecker was selected as a substitute who wrapped-up the so far available material and finalized the work on time. There were 580 compositions scoring at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 834 entries, incl. duplicates) – a rather moderate percentage of 70%. The 13,97% ratio of studies with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points was marginally lower than 14%, so also the compositions with 7,5 points are selected.

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.

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.