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The preliminary results in section C – Moremovers (PDF) of the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 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!

The preliminary results in section B – Threemovers (PDF) of the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 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!

Solvers’ ratings as of April 1^st 2019 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
14 tournaments of the 1^stquarter 2019 are included: 6^th Greek Chess Solving Cup 2019, XVII Warsaw Solving Grand Prix Open 2019, XVII Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019, 15^th International Solving Contest 2019 Cat.1, 13^th Urals Problemist Cup 2019, RGSU-Cup 2019 AlexanderPochinok Memorial Tourney, 42^nd International Polish Championship 2019, Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2019, Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019, Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019 Cat.B, 25^th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2019, 28^th Branko Atanackovic Memorial 2019, Open Solving Championship of CFO 2019, 18^th Greek Chess Solving Championship 2019.

The ranking of the top ten solvers had only one significant change with junior solver IM Danila Pavlov (RUS) moving from place 17 up to place 9! The largest five gains have been achieved by junior solver Danila Moiseev (RUS / +193.43!) ahead of GM Dolf Wissmann (NED / +69.02), IM Danila Pavlov (RUS / +66.18), IM Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR / +65.79) and Michal Luch (POL / +60.40).

The preliminary results in section H-Retros and Proofgames (PDF) of the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 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!

The World Chess Federation (www.fide.com), with the collaboration of the World Federation for Chess Composition (www.wfcc.ch), is organising the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing in eight sections.

The tournament will be conducted from February 1^st to August 1^st, 2019. The deadline for entries’ submission is March 1^st, 2019. The final results will be published not later than August 1^st, 2019.

The 2019 Calendar for other rated or remarkable solving tournaments has been created with the first invitation published there. Results, problems and solutions of these tournaments will be published regularly after the tournaments. Tournament organisers are invited to send their announcement of tournaments in advance.

Solvers’ ratings as of January 1^st 2019 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
8 tournaments of the 4^th quarter 2018 are included: 3^rd Solving Cup Byron Zappas (Greece), 27^th Kedainiai Cup (Lithuania), 34^th Open Swiss Solving Championship, 11^th Albino Cup (Belarus), 1^st Pavle Orlov Memorial (Serbia), 25^th Belgian Championship , 29^th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial (Netherlands), New Year’s Tournament 2019 (Serbia).

The ranking of the top ten solvers remains unchanged. The largest five gains have been achieved by Danila Moiseev (RUS / +51.81!), Ilija Serafimović (SRB / +24.71), Vladimir Blokhin (RUS / +23.76), Aleksey Popov (RUS / +23.64 and Andy Ooms (BEL / +22.06) – three of them juniors!

34^th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2018 | 1^st tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019: 
Participants: 17 | Winner: Arno Zude (GER) ahead of Ulrich Voigt (GER) and Roland Ott (SUI – Swiss Champion)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2307.26 | WSC category: 7
Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Arno Zude (GER) 19 points, 2. Ulrich Voigt (GER) 16, 3. Roland Ott (SUI) 13.
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.

Solvers’ ratings as of October 1^st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
7 tournaments are included for the 3^rd quarter 2018: 2^nd Russian Women Chess Solving Cup 2018, Chess solving tournament ‘Day of family’ (Russia), 26^th Czech Chess Solving Championship 2018, 1^st Ukrainian Cup 2018, Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2018, 42^nd World Chess Solving Championship 2018, Open Men’s Solving Championship of Tula region.
The ranking of the top ten solvers sees some exchanges of places but only one addition with Bojan Vučković replacing Ofer Comay. The largest three gains have been achieved by Ilija Serafimović (SRB / +105.62!), Alexey Kukelko (UKR / +77.82 and Danila Moiseev (RUS / +76.06).