45th International Polish Championship 2022 | 2nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2021/2022:Participants: 15 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL – Polish Champion) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Stasys Steponavičius (LTU)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2350.64 | WSC category: 6Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 23 points, 2. Stasys Steponavičius (LTU) 20 points,
36th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2021 | 1st tournament of World Solving Cup 2021/2022: Participants: 15 | Winner: Danila Pavlov (RUS) ahead of Roland Baier (SUI – Swiss Champion) and Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2336.64 | WSC category: 7 Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 19 points,
Please note that the “Solving Tournaments Problem Database (STPDB)” is fully integrated into the Solving Tournament Manager tool of WFCC. On the top of the STPDB database the STM tool contains problems from all tournaments entered into STM as of October 2015 and all others which Luc Palmans previously has entered into STPDB. At the moment this
The next cycle of the World Solving Cup will start right after the Rhodes congress with Roland Ott as Director and Marek Kolčák and Axel Steinbrink as Assistant Directors. Participating countries can register for the WSC 2021/2022 by sending an email to roland.ott@gmx.ch by specifying Country, expected Date (as exactly as possible), Place and Type of
As most of the scheduled solving tournaments have been canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Presidium agreed with the solving committee’s suggestion to cancel the current 2020-21 cycle of the World Solving Cup and only restart a new cycle after the next congress or after a new proposal is made to start
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic only 10 solving tournaments could be organised although the time range for WSC events of this cycle has been extended until the end of the year 2020.Aleksey Popov (RUS) is the winner of the WSC cycle 2019/2020 with 86 points gained in 4 tournaments. 2nd is Piotr Murdzia (POL) with
28th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2020 | 9th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 10 | Winner: Tomáš Peitl (SVK – Slovakian champion) ahead of Richard Dobiáš (SVK) and Marek Kolčák (SVK) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2021.72 | WSC category: 13 41st Lithuanian Championship 2020 | 10th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants:
28th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2020 | 8th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 11 | Winner: Miloslav Vanka (CZE – Czech champion) ahead of Marek Kolčák (SVK) and Miroslav Voracek (CZE)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2036.72 | WSC category: 13Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 86 points (unchanged), 2. Piotr
Due to the Corona pandemic all WSC tournaments since March 2020 had to be cancelled or postponed. To enable those countries to have a WSC tournament in the current cycle the WFCC Solving Committee has decided the following one-time rule change which is also supported by the members of the WFCC presidium: The cycle 2019/2020
Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019/2020 | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 32 | Winner: John Nunn (GBR – British champion) ahead of Eddy Van Beers (BEL), Martynas Limontas (LTU), Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR) and Dolf Wissmann (NED) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2444.21 | WSC category: 5Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Aleksey
