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(1) Posted by Luc Palmans [Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 22:53]

Solving Tourneys Database


There is a new update of STD (Solving Tourneys Database). You can download it from www.horizon.ebbs.be. This is part of the website of the Correspondence Chess organisation from Belgium. By the way, you can also download at the same place Horizon, which is the newsletter from the Belgium Problem Club. There are also pdf-files with recent solving tourneys in Belgium and the Netherlands.

At the moment there are in STD almost 6000 problems from some 500 tourneys. All the international tourneys (WCSC, WCCC-Open, ECSC, ISC) and most of the important national championships are covered. I ask directors and regular solvers to have a look at the accompanied pdf-file which gives a list of all the solving tourneys. If you have the problems from tourneys which are not yet included, please forward them to me.
STD is a pgn-file which can be read by all major chess programs and databases (ChessBase, Fritz, Chess Assistant, etc.). Navigating and searching is very easy. I must still do a lot of editing, but at least the names of the composers are consistent.

I would like to make two remarks:

1) Some years ago solvers asked for such a database to avoid repetition of the same problems. I hope that in the future the directors will have a look at this database before they make their final selection. There are so many good chess problems from so many good composers that it is somehow frustrating to meet the same problems and composers again and again.
(An anecdote: in the German Championship 2006 and the European Championship 2007 the same study of David Gurgenidze was used. Of course, the director of the ECSC was not aware of this. There were sixteen solvers who participated in both tourneys. In the German Championship they scored 43 points (maximum was 16 x 5 = 80 points) on this study. A year later, they scored 50 points. Not much progress, and some solvers – one of which is a grandmaster – even scored worst the second time.)

2) The level of the top solvers is very high. To make a tourney interesting and challenging for the best solvers, the problems must be reasonable difficult. This means that beginners and less experienced solvers often finish a tourney with very few points. This is by no means very encouraging. I strongly advise to organise two groups. This is already done in the ISC and in some national championships. I don’t think there need to be strict rules for who may participate in which group (except ISC, where 1700 elo is the benchmark). Common sense of the director and the solver himself will sort this out.

I hope to produce a new update around July 1st, 2013. This is before the next World Championships in Georgia and after most of the national championships.
 
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