Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2018 | 7th 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.
World Solving Cup 2017/2018 – Eton College 17.02.2018
Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2017-2018 | 6th 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.
14th ECSC – Announcement
The organizing team of the ECSC 2018 changed recently and there is now a change in the venue of the event. Such a last-minute change is of course regrettable, but there were no alternatives left to the WFCC and it had to be accepted. /Harry Fougiaxis, the President of WFCC/
You may see the Official Invitation by RCF published, linked also to the Solving page, ECSC section.
14th International Solving Contest: Final Results
Final results for the 14th International Solving Contest are published!
46 tournaments in 31 countries, 602 solvers from 33 countries.
Results and the winners:
- Category 1 (269 solvers): Piotr Murdzia (POL), Anna Bylinkina (RUS), Kacper Piorun (POL)
- Category 2 (116 solvers): Rajagopal Divyalakshmi (IND), Yaroslav Dektyarev (RUS), Lukas Muheim (SUI)
- Category 3 (217 solvers): Ekaterina Kirdyashkina (RUS), Chinguun Sumiya (MGL), Yana Kostornichenko (RUS)
Solvers have the possibility of appeals to the central controllers until 25th of February according the rules.
Axel Steinbrink, Luc Palmans – Central controllers ISC 2018
World Solving Cup 2017/2018 – Moscow 03.02.2018
12th Urals Problemist Cup | 5th 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.
14th ISC: Preliminary result
Now you find the complete preliminary result of 14th ISC on the Mat Plus website.
46 tournaments in 31 countries
602 solvers (cat-1: 269 – cat-2: 116 – cat-3: 217) which is a new record!
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3
Final results expected to be published until the end of February.
Final results of the 10th WCCT
Final Award booklet of the 10th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT) of the WFCC is now available for download. It contains all 489 awarded problems (from 258 authors) together with all the judges’ comments and some statistical information.
14th ISC: Problems & solutions
46 tournaments in 31 countries were held for the 14th International Solving Contest.
Problems cat.1 | Problems cat.2 | Problems cat.3 | Solutions cat.1 | Solutions cat.2 | Solutions cat.3
Preliminary results can be found on the Mat Plus website by the end of this week. Final results expected to be published until the end of February.
FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section G
The results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section G (fairies) are ready!
There were 1909 submissions (including duplicates). Of these, 1478 achieved at least 4.5 points. The ratio of the 294 selected fairies with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 19,89%.
Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!
Update 21.02.2018: Three compositions were removed from the list (two of them had not been published in 2013-15 and one was cooked), while one composition was added as the score of one judge had not been recorded correctly in the spreadsheet.
Update 12.03.2018: One joint composition was included twice in the list of selected problems and of course one of them had to be removed.
All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections page.
Solvers’ ratings January 1st 2018
Solvers’ ratings as of January 1st 2018 produced by the Solving Tournament Manager are published!
9 tournaments are included for the 4th quarter 2017: 26th Kedainiai Cup, Open Solving Championship of CFO, 10th Albino Cup, 4th Round of Serbian Solving League 2017, 28th Henk Hagedoorn Memorial 2017, XVI WSGP 2017 Open, XVI Warsaw Grand Prix 2017, 24th Belgian Championship 2017, 5th Round of Serbian Solving League 2017. The ranking of the top ten solvers remains the same. Vidmantas Satkus (LTU) achieved the largest gain with an increase of 65 points which resulted in improving the ranking from the 48th to the 26th place.