Category: WSC

46^th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2025 | 5^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:
Participants: 16 | Winner: Jorma Paavilainen (FIN – Finnish Champion!) ahead of Kari Karhunen (FIN) and Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2179.78 | WSC category: 10
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 46 points (unchanged), 2. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 41 points (+6), 3. Kacper Piorun (POL) 36 points (unchanged), 4. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 35 points (+4), 5. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup & Norms @ Solving Portal

Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2025 | 4^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:
Participants: 28 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of David Hodge (GBR – British Champion!) and Vidmantas Satkus (LTU).
Joost Michielsen (NED) 4^th Place with first FM norm!
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2397.73 | WSC category: 6
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 46 points (+23), 2. Kacper Piorun (POL) 36 points (unchanged), 3. Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) 35 points (unchanged), 4. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points (unchanged), 5. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 31 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup & Norms @ Solving Portal

29^th Belgian Solving Championship 2024 | 2^nd tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:
Participants: 10 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL – Belgian Champion) ahead of Dolf Wissmann (NED) with the same amount of points, but 20 minutes more time used.
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2226.67 | WSC category: 9
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points (unchanged), 2. Thomas Maeder (SUI) 27 points (unchanged), 3. Marek Kolčák (SVK) 23 points (unchanged), 4. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 23 points (+13), 5. Roland Ott (SUI) 21 points (+2).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup & Norms @ Solving Portal

NEWS! The Israel Open Solving Championship will take place on Sunday, 11 May 2025.

39^th Open Swiss Solving Championship 2024 | 1^st tournament of World Solving Cup 2024/2025:
Participants: 24 | Winner: Roland Baier (SUI – Swiss Champion) ahead of Thomas Maeder (SUI) and Marek Kolčák (SVK).
1^st FM norm of Igor Yarmonov (UKR) and 1^st FM norm and IM norm of Roland Ott (SUI)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2453.70 | WSC category: 4
Top 5 WSC Standings: 1. Roland Baier (SUI) 31 points, 2. Thomas Maeder (SUI) 27 points, 3. Marek Kolčák (SVK) 23 points, 4. Roland Ott (SUI) 19 points, 5. Ulrich Voigt (GER) 16 points.
More details: Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup & Norms @ Solving Portal

photos by Franziska Iseli

According to the Rules for the World Solving Cup (WSC) member countries of the FIDE can register for the WSC until one month after the end of the WFCC congress. By the end of this period, 17 countries had registered for the 2024/2025 season. The Open Solvings of the ECSC and the next WCCC will also count for it.
Information on announcements, results, problems and solutions will be published on the WFCC Solving Portal at this link: https://solving.wfcc.ch/wsc/2024-2025/info.html

Roland Ott, director WSC season 2024/2025

Open Solving Tournament of WCCC 2024 | 18^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 90 | Joint Winners: Piotr Murdzia (POL) and Boris Tummes (GER) ahead of Kacper Piorun (POL) and Miroslav Voráček (CZE).
1^st IM and GM norm of Miroslav Voráček (CZE), IM norms of Andy Ooms (BEL) and Dmitrijus Chocenka (LTU), FM norms of Lev Glanzspiegel (ISR), Richard Dobiáš (SVK) and Stasys Steponavičius (LTU)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2575.50 | WSC category: 2
Top 5 WSC Final Standings: 1. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 109 points (+41), 2. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 108 points (+16), 3. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 88 points (+15), 4. Kacper Piorun (POL) 80 points (+31), 5. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 68 points (unchanged).
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal

39^th Israel Solving Championship 2024 | 17^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 13 | Winner: Ofer Comay (ISR – Israeli champion!) ahead of Lev Glanzspiegel (ISR) and Omer Friedland (ISR).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2136.90 | WSC category: 11
Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 73 points, 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 68 points, 4. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 68 points, 5. Kacper Piorun (POL) 49 points.
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal

9^th Israel Open Solving Championship with 2 categories at 9 locations
Locations: Ra’anana (Israel), Athens, Preveza and Thessaloniki (all Greece), Kedainiai (Lithuania), Oberglatt (Switzerland), Wroclaw (Poland), Zagreb (Croatia), Cugir (Romania)
Participants Category 1: 37 | Winner: Kevinas Kuznecovas (LTU) ahead of ex aequo Ofer Comay (ISR) and Vidmantas Satkus (LTU)
Participants Category 2: 32 | Winner: Evgenios Ioannidis (GRE) ahead of David Maayan (ISR) and Georgios Chaliamanis (GRE)
More details published in Competitions→Solving→Solving Portal→Other rated/remarkable solving tournaments→2024

32^nd Czech Chess Solving Championship 2024 | 16^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 15 | Winner: Valery Kopyl (UKR) ahead of Vasil Ďačuk (SVK) and Marek Kolčák (SVK).
4^th Place Vasil Markovcij (CZE – Czech Champion).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2053.30 | WSC category: 12
Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 73 points, 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 68 points, 4. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 68 points, 5. Kacper Piorun (POL) 49 points.
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal

46^th German Solving Championship 2024 | 15^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2023/2024:
Participants: 19 | Winner: Roland Baier (SUI) ahead of Andrey Selivanov (FID) and Arno Zude (GER – German Champion).
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2370.12 | WSC category: 6
Top 5 WSC Standings (unchanged): 1. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 92 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 73 points, 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 68 points, 4. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 68 points, 5. Kacper Piorun (POL) 49 points.
More details published in Competitions→Solving→World Solving Cup @ Solving Portal