Final results for the 15^th International Solving Contest are published!

49 tournaments in 33 countries, 648 solvers from 49 countries.

Results and the winners:

• Category 1 (261 solvers): Piotr Murdzia (POL) – his 6^th win of the ISC !
• Category 2 (151 solvers): Jonasz Baum (POL)
• Category 3 (236 solvers): Elgun Pashayev (AZE) 

See the Overview, Winners of all categories, Statistics in the section Competitions→Solving→15^th ISC: Results.

Solvers have the possibility of appeals to the central controllers until 25^th of February according the rules.

Axel Steinbrink, Luc Palmans – Central controllers ISC 2019

“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

• Misha Mladenovic who entered all the results of cat-2 and cat-3 into the STM for those tournaments where the local controller didn’t use the STM and also for all help concerning the STM in general.
• Luc Palmans for selecting most of the problems and for the excellent preparing of problem and solution sheets.
• Borislav Gadjanski for his help with all activities concerning Mat Plus
• Julia Vysotska who improved the solving sheets before the tournament (and for her great help with the results of UAE).
• all Local controllers who used the STM for their results “

Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019.

15^th ISC problems and solutions:
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3

“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): 

I hope to publish preliminary result for all three categories next weekend.”

Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019.

15^th ISC problems and solutions:
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3

Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2019, informs: “At the moment we have 32 countries with 49 tournaments all over the world. New countries: Luxembourg and United Arab Emirates. This is a new record (last year 31 / 46)!”