(26.08.2014) In this second report from Bern you can see the most interesting from 25.08.2014 including a lot of new photos.

The Open solving was held from 09:30. 104 solvers from 24 countries had to solve 12 problems within 3 hours. The winner is Anatoly Mukoseev from Rusia. Second is Bojan Vuckovic from Serbia and third place was for Kacper Piorun from Poland. You can see whole results and the problems in the oficial website.

Here are some more photos:

Zvonimir Hernitz, Thomas Maeder, Franz Pachl, Mike Prcic

Marjan Kovacevich with his wife Milica

At the evening was lectures:

John Roycroft: Stinking Bishops

Dmitri Turevsky: Dynamic diagrams on a website

Mark Erenburg: A selection of Uri Avner's problems

After that there was the prize giving of the Israeli Open Solving Tourney 2014:

Anatoly Mukoseev (2nd place), Paz Einat (organizer), Marjan Kovacevic (received the medals which the Serbian solvers won), Piotr Murdzia (the winner)

Today (26.08.2014) was the 1st day of the 38th WCSC. After few hours will be more lectures (including my own about selfmates, which will be published in the website most probably tomorrow).