20-21.04.24. 17th European Chess Solving Championship in Hagen, Germany.
Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
Day 2: Problems | Solutions
Preliminary Results: Individual | Short teams
Preliminary Results after 5 rounds: Individual | Short teams
Preliminary Results after 4 rounds: Individual | Short teams
20.04.2024. Retro Solving in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen.
Main Judge: Thomas Brand | Problems Selected by: Thomas Brand
Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results
20.04.2024. Fairy Solving in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen.
Main Judge: Torsten Linß | Problems Selected by: Juraj Lörinc
Problems | Solutions | Preliminary Results
FINAL RESULTS of the Open Solving tournament (19.04.2024) in the context of ECSC 2024 in Hagen.
Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
Open Results | Open Norms | WSC Standings | WSC Points
20-21.04.24. 17th European Chess Solving Championship in Hagen, Germany.
Directors: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans.
Day 1: Problems | Solutions
Preliminary Results after 3 rounds: Individual | Teams | Short teams
20.04.24. Round 1: #2 – 20 minutes
20.04.24. Round 2: #3 – 60 minutes
20.04.24. Round 3: endgames – 100 minutes
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.”
32nd Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia 2024 | 10th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 16 | Winner: Tomáš Peitl (SVK – Slovakian champion!) ahead of Vasil Ďačuk (SVK) and Valery Kopyl (UKR).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2106.29 | WSC category: 11
Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points, 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points, 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points, 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points.
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
43rd Azerbaijan Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 9th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 44 | Winner: Misratdin Iskandarov (AZE – Azerbaijan champion!) ahead of Amil Abbasov (AZE) and Araz Almammadov (AZE)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2046.48 | WSC category: 13
Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points, 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points, 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points, 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points.
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
45th Lithuanian Championship 2024 | 8th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 12 | Winner: Dmitrijus Chocenka (LTU – Lithuanian champion!) ahead of Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) and Martynas Limontas (LTU).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2140.88 | WSC category: 11
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (unchanged), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 50 points (+4), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 41 points (+2), 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points (unchanged). 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2024 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published on the WFCC Solving Portal.
8 tournaments of the 1st quarter 2024 are included: 20th International Solving Contest 2024 Cat 1, 20th International Solving Contest 2024 Cat 2, Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2024, 45th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2024, 47th International Polish Championship 2024, 29th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2024, 32nd Branko Atanackovic Memorial 2024, 20th Attica Region Chess Solving Tournament 2024.
Ranking of the top ten solvers: 1. Danila Pavlov (FID) 2818.95, 2. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 2708.04, 3. Kacper Piorun (POL) 2654.08, 4. Ural Khasanov (FID) 2653.87, 5. John Nunn (GBR) 2638.24, 6. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 2630.22, 7. Aleksey Popov (FID) 2577.85, 8. Marko Filipović (CRO) 2564.95, 9. Ulrich Voigt (GER) 2555.87, 10. Bojan Vučković (SRB) 2555.86.
Largest five gains: Jakub Marciniszyn (POL) +54.54, Robert Włodarczyk (POL) +52.26, junior Alexandru Mihalcescu (ROU) +46.67, Valery Kopyl (UKR) +36.51, Andrey Selivanov (FID) +31.80
