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
The 8th Youth Chess Composing Challenge (YCCC) is the first composing tournament in the context of the Jurmala WCCC 2024.
The same as the previous editions, the 8th YCCC will be open to the U23 generation (born no earlier than 01.01.2001) from all the countries, and to all different genres of chess composition. This time the special prizes for the best composers are prepared!
All young chess composers, and those who would like to try their hands in this kind of chess art for the first time, are invited to take part in three different sections (one of them with the set thematic conditions)!
The deadline for submission of the entries is June 10.
The results are planned to be announced on August 2 2024, during the Closing ceremony of the Jurmala WCCC.
See also YCCC project on WFCC official website
29th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 20 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Michael Pfannkuche (GER) and Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE).
Dolf Wissmann (5th and Dutch Champion) ahead of Joost Michielsen (6th) and Hans Uitenbroek (8th-9th).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2391.19 | WSC category: 6
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points (+23), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 46 points (unchanged), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points (unchanged), 4. David Hodge (GBR) 35 points (+6). 5. Nikos Sidiropoulos (GRE) 32 points (+16).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
47th International Polish Championship 2024 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 23 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL – Polish champion!) ahead of Jakub Marciniszyn (POL) and Martynas Limontas (LTU).
Jakub Marciniszyn with 1st GM and 3rd IM norm – the first ever GM norm not achieved at ECSC/WCSC or any of their Open solving tournaments!
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2425.90 | WSC category: 5
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 69 points (unchanged), 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 46 points (+19), 3. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 39 points (unchanged), 4. Roland Ott (SUI) 29 points (unchanged), 5. David Hodge (GBR) 29 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal
Winners across all age groups of the WFCC Online Solving Challenge for Youth 1st round were:
all with 100% scores (Maksim & Danila were the quicker). There were 34 solvers in each discipline.
Age group winners were:
| Classical | Blitz | Scores | |
| 9-10 | Luka Tyrtyshnikov | Luka Tyrtyshnikov | 12 & 84 |
| 11-12 | Viktoriya Kharitonova | Timur Parpiev | 30 & 96 |
| 13-14 | Maksim Kharitonov | Maksim Kharitonov | 30 & 100 |
| 15-16 | Nikita Ushakov | Anirudh Daga | 30 & 96 |
| 17-18 | Nikolay Zhugin | Daniel Dumitrescu | 28.7 & 100 |
| 19-20 | Maxim Romanov | Ilija Serafimovic | 25 & 97 |
| 21-23 | Danila Pavlov | Danila Pavlov | 30 & 100 |
More details are published in Competitions >> Solving and at http://www.ihandicap.mobi/oscy/
Highlights of Challenge 1 were the success of the Kharitonov family (which featured three 100% scores) and the most welcome presence of World Champion Danila Pavlov who, in the Blitz round, rattled off 20 correct solutions in 7 minutes. Africa were well represented by solvers from Morocco and Nigeria; with Youssef Kozizi achieving a great score in the Blitz and Lovelyn Agbo so determined to complete the Blitz round that she went to the trouble of downloading a replacement browser in place of her mischievous Chrome version.
Technically, nearly everything went according to plan, with almost all obstacles overcome. The Blitz scoring system worked particularly well. The strength of the strongest was much higher than expected (with many at WCSC level), so problems in future challenges could be made a little tougher.
OSCY Challenge 2 will be held on Sunday 10/3/2024 at 12:30 (your Local time).
Brian Cook, OSCY Director
