Solvers’ ratings as of April 1st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!11 tournaments are included for the 1st quarter 2018: 5th Greek Chess Solving Cup, 41st International Polish Championship 2018, 14th International Solving Contest Cat 1, 12th Urals Problemist Cup, Grand Prix Moscow (memorial A. P. Pochinka), British Chess Solving Championship 2018, Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2018, 24th Dutch Open […]
The preliminary results in section A-Twomovers (PDF) of the 6th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2018 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!
42nd German Solving Championship 2018 | 9th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Participants: 32 | Winner: Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) ahead of Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) and Arno Zude (GER – German Champion)Ulrich Voigt (GER) has achieved an FM norm in the second rated solving tournament he has attended.Average rating of top ten solvers: 2492.06 | WSC category: 4More […]
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section F are ready! 848 compositions scored at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 1037 entries without counting duplicates) – a very decent percentage of 81,7%. The ratio of the 179 selected selfmates with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 21,1%. Many thanks to […]
The Chess Federation of Macedonia and Chess Club “Gambit Asseco SEE” have the honour to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), national teams and individual chess solvers, chess composers, all those interested in problem chess, and accompanying families and friends, to attend the 61st World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and […]
24th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 8th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Participants: 14 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Abdelaziz Onkoud (MAR), Michel Caillaud (FRA) and Johan de Boer (NED – Dutch Champion)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2338.10 | WSC category: 7More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.
Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Participants: 19 | Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) ahead of Kari Karhunen (FIN) and Andrey Selivanov (RUS)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2244.47 | WSC category: 9More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.
Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2017-2018 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Participants: 45 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU), John Nunn (GBR – British Champion) and Jonathan Mestel (GBR)FM Norm of Ryszard Królikowski (POL)Average rating of top ten solvers: 2476.07 | WSC category: 4More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 […]
The organizing team of the ECSC 2018 changed recently and there is now a change in the venue of the event. Such a last-minute change is of course regrettable, but there were no alternatives left to the WFCC and it had to be accepted. /Harry Fougiaxis, the President of WFCC/ You may see the Official Invitation by […]
Final results for the 14th International Solving Contest are published! 46 tournaments in 31 countries, 602 solvers from 33 countries. Results and the winners: Category 1 (269 solvers): Piotr Murdzia (POL), Anna Bylinkina (RUS), Kacper Piorun (POL) Category 2 (116 solvers): Rajagopal Divyalakshmi (IND), Yaroslav Dektyarev (RUS), Lukas Muheim (SUI) Category 3 (217 solvers): Ekaterina Kirdyashkina (RUS), Chinguun Sumiya (MGL), […]
