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| (21) Posted by Administrator [Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 20:11] |
Dinu-Ioan Nicula:
These are the problems of today and an important announcement for endgames authors.
Regarding a posting related to "extreme performances" (not about MVL, absent today):
I think that in sports (and not only), every human being has the right to a very weak day. It is the first time in 10 years of WCSC that I score 0 pts at H#2 (and this stressed me so much after) and at S#2. I could invoke the extremes of the climate (hot outside, cold in the playing venue), but I prefer not do it.
Here are the snapshots:
(...) - (obsolete links removed!)
http://www.matplus.net/pub/img/Study_Of_The_Year_2011.jpg
(note that WCSC-related files show both problems and solutions)
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| (22) Posted by Administrator [Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 23:13] |
I must admit that my "theory" about the beauty-column relation allows exceptions: the selection of helpmates was excellent! The "ugly" third column (= many points lost) was probably caused by a "time-eating" threemover - which was a really tough nut!
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| (23) Posted by Sven Hendrik Lossin [Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 09:31] |
And the other exceptions are the two s#7 which got no points at all:
Frank Richters s#7 is absolutely brilliant and I still like mine as well.
What does the fact that very good solvers did not solve these pieces in a very limited time say about the quality? I think the answer is close to nothing. As HPRehm has written in "die Schwalbe": It depends on the reasons why it is so difficult and brought the example of Camillo Gamnitzer in which compositions the difficulty is based on the profound thematic idea.
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| (24) Posted by Administrator [Friday, Sep 21, 2012 11:28] |
Just received from Axel Steinbrink (director of solving competitions in Kobe):
http://www.milanvel.net/pub/Kobe_Problems.zip
http://www.milanvel.net/pub/Kobe_Results.zip
(all links in my previous posts in this thread are now obsolete)
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| (25) Posted by Axel Steinbrink [Sunday, Sep 23, 2012 10:41] |
Dear friends,
as director a few words concerning the selection of problems.
Of course you don't know how difficult a problem is before the tournament.
In general I am content with the problems of WCSC and open (esp. with 3#, studies and H#). Of course the #2 were too easy (esp. that #2 from Ahues).
And of course the s#n were too difficult (in open and wcsc). Perhaps I wouldnt select them if they were not originals. If you get originals you are quite happy about that (I think most directors would be) and dont think so much about difficulty. This should not be a critic to Sven-Hendrik or Frank - the problems are excellent - and was my fault.
The point is: if the s#n is that difficult that nobody can solve it normally the result after the s#-round is the same as after the n#-round.
Luckily for Piotr and for the tournament (but not for Kacper Piorun) the s#2 decided about 1st place in individual ranking.
Best wishes from Japan
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| (26) Posted by Harry Fougiaxis [Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 10:09] |
Many thanks to David Friedgood for his nice article about the 2012 WCSC in the popular ChessBase site:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8536
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