Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Official results from Jesi

In Jesi, Italy, was organised this August the 54th World Congress on Chess Composition (WCCC) together with the 35th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC), (see here the web page of the organisers and here the web page of the World Federation on Chess Composition (WFCC)).

In these web pages you can find the official Bulletin, where one can see the final results of the Solving and Composing contests. For the composition contests we have already posted a first part (here) and for the solving contests we have the following :


(A) Top results of the Open Solving Contest

1. PIORUN Kacper, 60, 169'
2. EVSEEV Georgy, 60, 176'
3. COMAY Ofer, 59.5, 134'
4. Van BEERS Eddy, 59, 178'
5. NUNN John, 57, 174'
6. MUKOSEEV Anatoly, 56.5, 169'
7. VUCKOVIC Bojan, 56.5, 180'
8. TUMMES Boris, 55, 174'
9. MESTEL Jonathan, 54, 172'
10. MURDZIA Piotr, 54, 177'
...
15 MENDRINOS Nikos, 51.5, 178'
27-28 PRENTOS Kostas, 45.5, 180'
92 MANOLAS Emmanuel, 5, 180'

93 solvers have participated.

(B) Top personal results of the World Chess Solving Championship

1. PIORUN Kacper (POL), 83, 337'
2. NUNN Jphn (GBR), 80, 288'
3. MURDZIA Piotr (POL), 80, 319'
4. ZUDE Arno (DEU), 77, 300'
5. Van BEERS Eddy (BEL), 76, 314'
6. PAAVILAINEN Jorma (FIN), 76, 323'
7. PODINIC Vladimir (SRB), 75.5, 307'
8. EVSEEV Georgy (RUS), 75, 337'
9. SELIVANOV Andrey (RUS), 74, 340'
10. POGORELOV Volodymyr (UKR), 72, 320'
...
24. PRENTOS Kostas (GRE), 65, 330'
44. MENDRINOS Nikos (GRE), 56, 358'
76. MANOLAS Emmanuel (GRE), 18, 321'

83 solvers have participated.

(C) Top team results of the World Chess Solving Championship

1. POLAND, 164, 631'
2. UNITED KINGDOM, 154, 629'
3. SERBIA, 152, 602'
4. UKRAINE, 151, 650'
5. RUSSIA, 151, 656'
6. FINLAND, 148, 663'
7. ISRAEL, 145, 625'
8. BELGIUM, 140, 644'
9. GERMANY, 136.5, 664'
...
15. GREECE, 122, 688' (Prentos Kostas, Mendrinos Nikos, Manolas Emmanuel)

20 national teams have participated.

(D) Presentation of the games and solution of problems by John Nunn

This year's second Champion presented details and photographs from the Solving contests and described the method of solving some problems in two articles in the web page ChessBase.com. He writes elegantly and his observations are very penetrating.
Read the Presentation and the Solutions.

Some photographs from Jesi are also posted here.

Sunday, September 04, 2011

Bringing back Checkmate (4)

Mr Steve Giddins continues his articles in Chessbase about chess compositions. In his August 16th article he describes interferences : http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7460. He selects very nice problems as examples.