The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) reminds to composers worldwide: the closing date for the submission of entries to the FIDE Album 2016-18 is June 1, 2019.
See the announcement and the instructions to directors and judges.
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62nd WCCC & 43rd WCSC: Registration Call
The organizers of 62nd WCCC & 43rd WCSC remind you that you should make your reservation until 1st of June!
See the Invitation announced on the 5th of February, 2019.
Organization: The Lithuanian Chess Problem Society.
Email of the event: vsatkus@yahoo.com
Official website: www.sachmatija.puslapiai.lt/wccc2019/
Contact: Vidmantas Satkus
7th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 – B-Threemovers
The preliminary results in section B – Threemovers (PDF) of the 7th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 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!
14.ECSC Results (Sponsored by Municipality of Glyfada)
The remarkably young (with three juniors among the four solvers!) team of Russia brought the country its first European team title, finishing well ahead of second-placed Poland and third-placed United Kingdom. While the powerful performance of the new champions made the outcome of the team competition quite certain already after the fifth round, the suspense in the individual competition continued up to the last minute. Thanks to their results in the final round, the silver-medalist Piotr Murdzia and the bronze-medalist (and winner in the official senior competition) John Nunn outran the other competitors, all except one: the sixteen-year old Danila Pavlov, who successfully resisted all the attacks on the yellow jersey that he had taken after the fourth round, and became the youngest ever European champion. /Ivan Denkovski, director/
Results | Problems | Solutions | Team results | Individual results | Juniors results | Women results | Seniors results
World Solving Cup 2018/2019 – Glyfada 03.05.2019
Open Solving Tournament of ECSC 2019 | 14th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 70 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Aleksey Popov (RUS)
Aleksey Popov (RUS) with 5th FM norm, 2nd IM norm and 1st GM norm!
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2556.41 | WSC category: 2
Top 5 World Solving Cup: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 115 points, 2. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 107 points, 3. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 101 points, 4. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 95 points, 5. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) 68 points
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
14.ECSC, Athens, 3-5.05.2019 (Sponsored by Municipality of Glyfada)
- (05.05) 9:30-13:00 ECSC 2019, 2nd day (sm, #n, hm)
Team results | Individual results | Problems | Solutions
- (04.05) 10:30-14:00 ECSC 2019, 1st day (#2, #3, studies)
Preliminary team results | Preliminary individual results
- (03.05) Open Solving, 1 round, 3 hours (17:00-20:00), 12 problems.
Preliminary results | Problems | Solutions
World Solving Cup 2018/2019 – Omelnyk 27./28.04.2019
33rd Ukrainian Solving Championship 2019 | 13th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 14 | Winner: Oleksiy Solovchuk (UKR – Ukrainian champion) ahead of VladimirPogorelov (UKR) and Valery Kopyl (UKR)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2176.93 | WSC category: 10
Top 5 World Solving Cup (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 96 points, 2. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 94 points,
3. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) 68 points, 4. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 64 points, 5. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 63 points
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
Open of the 33rd Ukrainian Solving Championship 2019
Participants: 14 | Winner: Sergey Borodavkin (UKR) ahead of Oleksiy Solovchuk (UKR) and Valery Kopyl (UKR)
More details are published in Competitions→Solving→Other rated/remarkable solving tournaments 2019.
World Solving Cup 2018/2019 – Berlin 27./28.04.2019
43rd German Solving Championship 2019 | 12th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 29 | Winner: Boris Tummes (GER – German champion) ahead of Eddy Van Beers (BEL) and
Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR)
Aleksey Popov (RUS) with 4th FM norm
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2445.03 | WSC category: 5
Top 5 World Solving Cup (with new leader!): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 96 points, 2. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 94 points,
3. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) 68 points, 4. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 64 points, 5. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 63 points
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
4.YCCC: an invitation to young composers
The 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2019 / 4ый Юношеский турнир по составлению 2019, organized by the members of newly formed Youth Committee, offers themes for three genres: #2, h#2 and endgame.
The age limit for participants is extended to U23 – for all young composers born 1996 and later. Another important change is introduction of one easier theme in all three genres (black self-block), aimed to attract the youngest generations and newcomers. Two other themes should inspire more experienced participants.
The deadline is 20. July 2019, and the prize-giving will take place at Vilnius WCCC, on 23. August 2019.
World Solving Cup 2018/2019 – Bratislava 13./14.04.2019
27th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2019 | 11th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 14 | Winner: Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) ahead of Tomáš Peitl (SVK – Slovakian champion) and Roland Ott (SUI)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2220.42 | WSC category: 9
Top 5 World Solving Cup (unchanged): 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 94 points, 2. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 73 points, 3. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 63 points, 4. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 56 points, 5. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 56 points – but Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) now 6th place with 49 points.
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.