Category: WSC

24^th Dutch Open Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 8^th 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: 7
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.

Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 7^th 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: 9
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.

Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2017-2018 | 6^th 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: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.

12^th Urals Problemist Cup | 5^th tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: 
Participants: 20 | Winner: GM Aleksandr Azhusin (RUS) ahead of GM Anatoly Mukoseev (RUS) and IM Danila Pavlov (RUS)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2458.52 | WSC category: 4
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.

24^th Open Belgian Chess Solving Championship 2017 | 4^th 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.

Warsaw Grand Prix | 3^rd tournament of World Solving Cup 2017/2018: 
Participants: 22 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) 2^nd 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: 10^th Albino Cup in Minsk (Belarus) 04/05.11.2017
Participants: 28 | Winner: Martynas Limontas (LTU) | 1^st 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.

World Solving Cup 2017/2018: Open Swiss Solving Championship, Bern 09.09.2017
Winner: Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.387
The WSC category of the tournament: 6
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2017/18 Calendar.

The list of 22 countries which have registered their participation in the current cycle of the WSC has been published. The official announcement of the events will be published at least two months in advance of the competition.

At the WCCC in Dresden new rules have been decided effective as from the 2017/2018 cycle of the WSC. Main focus of the changes was the aim to better attract travelling to solving tournaments in other countries.
The main changes are:

• New distribution of points for categories 1-7 which reduces the excessively increasing differences of points for winners of stronger tournaments
• Increase of the number of best tournaments that count for each solver from currently four to six tournaments
• Declaration of the Open Solving tournament during the ECSC as WSC tournament