World Solving Cup 2017/2018 – New Rules

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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

 

World Solving Cup 2016/2017 – Final

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World Solving Cup 2016/2017: WCCC Open 2017, Dresden, 7.8.2017
Winner: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | The average rating of top ten solvers: 2.600
The WSC category of the tournament: 1
More details and the current WSC standing are published in Competitions→Solving→WSC: 2016/17 Calendar.

Winners of the WSC 2016/2017: Piotr Murdzia (POL) | Bojan Vuckovic (SRB) | Kacper Piorun (POL)

The next cycle, WSC 2017/18, will be directed by Marek Kolčák.

World Solving Cup 2017/2018

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The web page of the next cycle, WSC 2017/18, has been added with the first registered and announced solving tournaments. The WSC of this cycle will be directed by Marek Kolčák. Vidmantas Satkus and Roland Ott will be Assistant directors.

Solvers’ ratings July 1st 2017

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Solvers’ ratings as of July 1st 2017 are published! 15 tournaments included: 26th Branko Atanackovic Memorial 2017, 38th Azerbaijan Chess Solving Championship 2017, 41st German Solving Championship 2017, Open Solving Tournament Lithuania 2017, 25th Chess Solving Championship of Slovakia, 38th Lithuanian Championship, 11th Urals Problemist Cup, 25th International Championship of Russia, ECSC Riga Open, 13th European Chess Solving Championship, Open Solving Championship of Serbia 2017, French Chess Solving Championship 2017, 4th Israel Open Solving Championship 2017, Open of the 31th Ukrainian Solving Championship, 31st Ukrainian Championship. Three top solvers remain the same: Georgy Evseev, Andrey Zhuravlev and Piotr Murdzia.

FIDE ALBUM 2013-2015 – Results in section B

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fide-album-photoThe results of the FIDE Album 2013-15 section B are ready!
748 compositions scored at least 4,5 points (out of the totally submitted 993 entries without counting duplicates) – a decent percentage of 75%. The ratio of the 170 selected threemovers with 8+ points vs. the entries with 4,5+ points is 22,7%.

Many thanks to the director and the judges for their hard and efficient work!

Update 28.5.2018: A selected #3, which is already included in the 2010-12 album, is now removed from the list.

All announced results are published in the FIDE Album 2013-15 finished sections  page. The current list of album points has been also updated. The next update will be after the remaining sections of FA 2013-15 are finished.