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The 31st World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, 16 and 17 October, while the Open Solving Tourney will be on Monday, 15 October. Both events will be conducted by Brian Stephenson (Great Britain) with Peter Bakker (Netherlands), Ward Stoffelen (Belgium) and Neal Turner (Finland), as assistants. For the exact timetable, please check the congress programme. By the way, Brian has in his site full details regarding the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championships and a lot of interesting material about chess problems, including his Meson database. His introductory article in the BCPS site is highly recommended, especially for beginners who make their first steps in solving and composing! The material in the Open will be all orthodox, that is the same types as in the WCSC itself. Brian's main aim for the Open is to ensure that it is rated and that norms are available. We also support his opinion that many solvers use the Open as a warm up to the WCSC and may well feel short changed, if the type they need practice on is not present. Like in the Eretria WCCC in 2005, we will organise a Quick Solving Tournament on Tuesday evening, 16 October, open to all congress participants. This time we will use the new rules which were successfully tried recently. Thirty twomovers are displayed, each problem is projected for 90 seconds in total, shown one minute on the left side of the screen, then transfered to the right side for the rest 30 seconds, and at the same time a new problem appears on the left. The participants can decide if they would continue solving from the right or change to the left (or perhaps, even try to tackle both positions at the same time?!) The solvers write down only the key, a correct answer gets +1 point, an incorrect key means -0.9 point and, of course, 0 points if no answer is given. This particular type of solving tournament was introduced by Ivan Jarolín in 2001 and it is quite popular mainly in Slovakia. Similar events start taking place with an increasing pace, like for instance in the recent German Solving Championship. The traditional Solving Show will be held on Thursday evening, 18 October, and Harry Fougiaxis will select the problems and run the event. We wish to express, once more, our appreciation to Georgy Evseev (Russia), whose Solving Show software we will be using once again. Last, but not the least, we remind you that L'ubomír Širáň (Slovakia) presents all news about domestic and international chess solving events in his excellent Solving Chess site, where he also keeps record of the official rating list. Don't forget to check the rules, the world champions and titles list, the WCSC comparison tables and the valuable archive dating back to 2000. |
Results of solving competitions
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