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WCCC 2024 Jūrmala: last call for registration

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Latvian Chess Problem Society reminds you about the deadline to register for the 66th World Congress of Chess Composition:  27.05.2024!

Registration on the official website of WCCC 2024 will keep working up to the end of June, but don’t wait for too long! We advise to register even before you make your mind about each detail.  Being a registered participant you would be getting from us all important emails about the event.

The same time we would appreciate if you inform the organizers by email wccc2024@wfcc.ch in a case of cancellation.

The last day to have guaranteed rooms in the official venue of the Congress, Hotel Jurmala SPA, is 27.05.2024! The discounted prices will be still valid up to 27.06.2024, but the reservations will be a subject to availability. No more discounted rooms starting 28.06.2024! Please consider a high season, and much higher regular prices in the same hotel!

Riga 11.05.2024 – World Solving Cup 2023/2024

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50th Latvian Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 12th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 16 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU) ahead of Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) and Roland Ott (SUI).
Latvian Champion Modris Rāviņš (7th) ahead of Emīls Tabors (8th) and Laura Rogule (9th)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2156.20 | WSC category: 10
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (unchanged), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 73 points (+10), 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 68 points (unchanged), 4. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 68 points (+8), 5. Kacper Piorun (POL) 49 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal

Hagen 19.04.2024 – World Solving Cup 2023/2024

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Open Solving Tournament of ECSC 2024 | 11th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 66 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Kari Karhunen (FIN).
GM norm of Kari Karhunen and FM norm of Lev Glanzspiegel who will get the FM title at the 2024 Congress in Jūrmala.
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2564.75 | WSC category: 2
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (unchanged), 2. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 68 points (+41), 3. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 63 points (+13), 4. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 60 points (+19), 5. Kacper Piorun (POL) 49 points (+36).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
Photo gallery in the post ECSC 2024, Hagen: Open

ECSC 2024, Hagen: ceremony & winners

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20-21.04.24. 17th European Chess Solving Championship in Hagen, Germany.
Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
Individual winners: Kacper Piorun (Poland), Bojan Vučković (Serbia), Jakub Marciniszyn (Poland)
Team winners: Poland, Serbia, Lithuania

Open ECSC 2024. Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
Winners: Piotr Murdzia (Poland), Kacper Piorun (Poland), Kari Karhunen (Finland)

Fairy Solving. Main Judge: Torsten Linß | Problems Selected by: Juraj Lörinc
Winners: Thomas Maeder (Switzerland), Vlaicu Crișan (Romania), Vidmantas Satkus (Lithuania)

Retro Solving. Main Judge: Thomas Brand | Problems Selected by: Thomas Brand
Winners: Michel Caillaud (France), Audrey Kueh (Great Britain), Vlaicu Crișan (Romania)

ECSC 2024, Hagen: Open

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19.04.24. 17:00-20:30 Open Solving tournament in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen. 66 solvers took part. Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.

Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results
“The study nr 10 is unsolvable (black wins). See solution. Therefore every solver gets 0 pts for this problem and all full time in 2nd round.”