The organizers of 14th ECSC remind you that you should make your reservation until the 11th of March!
See the Invitation announced on the 6th of November,2018.
REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/forms/i8nCjbdGfDMlLEUt2
Organization: Nikos & George Mendrinos in co-operation with the Greek Chess Composition Committee.
The email of the event: ecsc2019@gmail.com
Official website: http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.gr/
Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019 | 7th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 30 | Winner: Eddy Van Beers (BEL) ahead of Nikos Mendrinos (GRE) and Martynas Limontas (LTU).
5th place and British champion with first FM norm: David Hodge ahead of Johnathan Mestel and John Nunn.
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2461.92 | WSC category: 4
Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 67 points, 2. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 63 points, 3. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 56 points, 4. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 52 points, 5. Eddy Van Beers (BEL) 50 points
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
Category B of the Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2019
Participants: 16 | Winner: Clive Frostick(GBR) ahead of Giles Body (GBR) and Chris Shephard (GBR)
More details are published in Competitions→Solving→Other rated/remarkable solving tournaments 2019
40th Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2019 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 22 | Winner: Dolf Wissmann (NED) ahead of Jorma Paavilainen (FIN – Finnish champion) and Bilguun Sumiya (MGL) joint 2nd place
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2313.50 | WSC category: 7
Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 67 points, 2. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 56 points, 3. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 44 points, 4. Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) 41 points, 5. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) 36 points.
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
Final results for the 15th International Solving Contest are published!
49 tournaments in 33 countries, 648 solvers from 49 countries.
Results and the winners:
See the Overview, Winners of all categories, Statistics in the section Competitions→Solving→15th ISC: Results.
Solvers have the possibility of appeals to the central controllers until 25th of February according the rules.
Axel Steinbrink, Luc Palmans – Central controllers ISC 2019
RGSU Cup 2019 (2nd Alexander Pochinok MT) | 5th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 28 | Winner: Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) ahead of Danila Pavlov (RUS) and Aleksey Popov (RUS)
IM norms of Aleksey Popov, Danila Moiseev and Oleg Pervakov
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2453.34 | WSC category: 4
Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 67 points, 2. Aleksey Popov (RUS) 50 points, 3. Evgeny Viktorov (RUS) 41 points, 4. Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) 36 points, 5. Anatoly Mukoseev (RUS) 33 points.
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
The Lithuania Chess Composers’ Society would like to invite all delegates of the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), chess solvers and chess composers, all those who are interested in chess problems and accompanying persons to attend the 62nd World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 43rd World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC).
The congress and the championship will be held in the hotel Crowne Plaza Vilnius (Vilnius, capital of Lithuania) from Saturday, 17 August 2019 (arrival), to Saturday, 24 August 2019 (departure), with the WCSC on Tuesday and Wednesday (20 and 21 August 2019).
Download invitation as PDF | Official website: http://www.sachmatija.puslapiai.lt/wccc2019/
“Now we have the completed preliminary results of the ISC 2019. The reports of the Solving Tournament Manager (STM): Preliminary results Cat.1 | Preliminary results Cat.2 | Preliminary results Cat.3
This year we had 648 solvers (cat-1 261, cat-2 151, cat-3 236) from 48 countries and 49 tournaments in 33 countries.
Thank you to all local controllers. You make this tournament to a great success.
I want to give a special thank to
Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019.
15th ISC problems and solutions:
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3
The World Chess Federation (www.fide.com), with the collaboration of the World Federation for Chess Composition (www.wfcc.ch), is organising the 7th FIDE World Cup in Composing in eight sections.
The tournament will be conducted from February 1st to August 1st, 2019. The deadline for entries’ submission is March 1st, 2019. The final results will be published not later than August 1st, 2019.
“This year we had 49 tournaments in 33 countries. There were more than 600 solvers which is a new record. Preliminary result of Cat-1 (solvers with 50+ points):
| Name | Points | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Murdzia | 60 | 215 |
| Nunn | 59 | 217 |
| Caillaud | 55 | 240 |
| Pavlov | 54 | 240 |
| Piorun | 53,5 | 235 |
| Borodavkin | 53,5 | 240 |
| Voigt | 52,5 | 226 |
| Zude | 52,5 | 235 |
| Sidiropoulos | 50 | 236 |
I hope to publish preliminary result for all three categories next weekend.”
Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019.
15th ISC problems and solutions:
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3
17th Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019 | 4th tournament of World Solving Cup 2018/2019:
Participants: 16 | Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) ahead of Martynas Limontas (LTU) and Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR)
Average rating of top ten solvers: 2418.66 | WSC category: 5
Leaders World Solving Cup: 1. Danila Pavlov (RUS) 40 points, 2. Martynas Limontas (LTU) 29 points, 3. Piotr Murdzia (POL) 27 points (2682.36 Perf. Rating), 4.Aleksey Popov (RUS) 27 points (2429.31 Perf. Rating), 5. Dolf Wissmann (NED) 25 points.
More details are published in Competitions → Solving → World Solving Cup (WSC) → 2018/19 Calendar.
Open of the 17th Warsaw Solving Grand Prix 2019
Winner: Danila Pavlov (RUS) ahead of Piotr Murdzia (POL) and Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR) / Andrey Selivanov (RUS) with shared 3rd place
More details are published in Competitions→Solving→Other rated/remarkable solving tournaments 2019 Calendar.
