The International Solving Contest 2012 was held all over the World on Sunday January 29th. Here are the problems, solutions, photos and preliminary results of the competition.

There was two sections: one for the experienced solvers. In this section solvers can obtain rating points. The second section is intended for weaker, inexperienced solvers and for youth. There was two rounds with six problems each, i.e. for each round a #2, #3, #n, EG, h# and s#. For each round, the solving time was two hours.

The contest was at the same time in each country - CET (Central European Time) at 11 hr.

Central controller ISC 2012 - Axel Steinbrink.

Eddy Van Beers      Vladimir Pogorelov     Jonathan Mestel     Piotr Murdzia     John Nunn

Ranking - category 1

Total 218 solvers

Ranking - category 2

Total 107 solvers

PHOTOS

From Volgograd (Russia)

Aleksandr Radchenko, Vladimir Lipovsky, Yuri Viharev

Mihail Kuzmin, Jaroslav Malyhin, Semen Dorohin, Egor Semenov, Danila Pavlov

From Spain

Joseba Egana (13) ,  Francisco Hornas (14)

Jose Fernando Blanco (8), Rene Mayer (7),  Francisco Hornas (14)

David Astasio (2),    Jose Antonio Coello (1),   Jose Fernando Blanco (8)

 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS - Category 1:

More details on http://www.matplus.net/pub/isc12.php?px=1328144446&f=x and  http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc/index.htm