Final Award booklet of the 10th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is now available for download. It contains all 489 awarded problems (from 258 authors) together with all the judges’ comments and some statistical information.
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14th ISC: Problems & solutions
46 tournaments in 31 countries were held for the 14th International Solving Contest.
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3
Preliminary results can be found on the Mat Plus website by the end of this week. Final results expected to be published until the end of February.
FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section G
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section G (fairies) are ready!
There were 1909 submissions (including duplicates). Of these, 1478 achieved at least 4.5 points. The ratio of the 294 selected fairies with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 19,89%.
Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!
Update 21.02.2018: Three compositions were removed from the list (two of them had not been published in 2013-15 and one was cooked), while one composition was added as the score of one judge had not been recorded correctly in the spreadsheet.
Update 12.03.2018: One joint composition was included twice in the list of selected problems and of course one of them had to be removed.
All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.
Solvers’ ratings January 1st 2018
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
9 tournaments are included for the 4th quarter 2017: 26th Kedainiai Cup, Open Solving Championship of CFO, 10th Albino Cup, 4th Round of Serbian Solving League 2017, 28th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2017, XVI WSGP 2017 Open, XVI Warsaw Grand Prix 2017, 24th Belgian Championship 2017, 5th Round of Serbian Solving League 2017. The ranking of the top ten solvers remains the same. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) achieved the largest gain with an increase of 65 points which resulted in improving the ranking from the 48th to the 26th place.
World Solving Cup 2017/2018 – Geel 02.12.2017
24th Open Belgian Chess Solving Championship 2017 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018:
Participants: 11 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Dolf Wissmann (NED) and Hans Uitenbroek (NED)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2187.67 | WSC category: 10
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.
FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section E
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section E (helpmates) are ready!
An impressive number of 2583 entries (incl. duplicates) were received and they were split in three groups: E1 for h#<=2, E2 for h#2,5 and h#3, and E3 for h#>3. The h#2s dominated once more. In each group there were three judges with each team of judges working independently. 2027 entries scored at least 4,5 points (78,5% of the total entries, a decent ratio for such a popular genre). 305 problems scored at least 8 points, which represents a reasonable ratio of 15% selected problems; of course the respective ratio varies in the three groups. Full statistics are given in the page of the results.
Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!
Update 5.12.2017: An anticipation was found for a selected h#2 which is now removed form the list.
Update 14.12.2017: A selected h#2, 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.
16th Warsaw Chess Solving Grand Prix 2017 in Warsaw (Poland) 24.-26.11.2017
Warsaw Grand Prix | 3rd tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018:
Participants: 22 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 2nd and new leader of World Solving Cup
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2.459.60 | WSC category: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.
Warsaw Grand Prix – Open:
Participants: 20 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU)
More details are published in Competitions→Solving→Other rated solving tournaments: 2017 Calendar.
World Solving Cup 2017/2018 – Minsk 04/05.11.2017
World Solving Cup 2017/2018: 10th Albino Cup in Minsk (Belarus) 04/05.11.2017
Participants: 28 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU) | 1st FM norm of Aleksey Popov (RUS)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2.422.75 | WSC category of the tournament: 5
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.
Invitation to the 14th ISC
The International Solving Contest – ISC – next year will take place on Sunday January 28th 2018. The event is happening simultaneously in all participating countries.
The name of the locally appointed controller must reach the central controllers by e-mail no later than December 31st 2017. Central controllers: Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans | Invitation (PDF format) | ISC rules
14th ECSC in Moscow
We were notified by the organisers of the 14th ECSC that the championship will not take place at Kaliningrad, as the initially foreseen hotel had to arrange some other events in that weekend. The new venue and dates are as follows:
Organiser: Chess Composition Committee of the Russian Chess Federation
Dates: 4-6 May 2018 (Friday to Sunday)
City: Moscow
Venue: Hotel Cosmos*** (Prospect Mira 150, Moscow)
Website: http://www.hotelcosmos.ru
Prices: 30 EUR per person in a double room, 50 EUR per person in a single room
Prices include breakfast, free wi-fi, parking
Registration fee: 45 EUR
The hotel shall provide support to the participants for the issue of visas
Contact person: Andrey Selivanov, selivanovav@gmail.com
The official invitation will be issued in December. /Harry Fougiaxis, the President of WFCC/