About 55 players took part in the SP World Open Puzzle Solving Championship. The top 2 seeds are the two young phenoms Luke Harmon and Kayden Troff. Luke just defeated GM Gurevich and WIM Melekhina last night in the US Game 10 Championship. Kayden won the Utah Blitz and Open Championship.

Luke broke the previous record of this event by scoring 10/10 in 90 seconds!! Only 6 players (4 boys and 2 girls) got all 10 correctly.

How long would it take you to solve these same 10 puzzles?



Here are the answers:

Puzzle 1: 1.Qh7#

Puzzle 2: 1.Nc6#

Puzzle 3: 1.Bd7 #

Puzzle 4: 1.Rd6+ Kf5 2.Rf6#

Puzzle 5: 1.d6+ Kd7 2.Nc5#

Puzzle 6: 1.Qg6+ Kxg6 2.Re6#

Puzzle 7: 1.Qxf8+ Kxf8 2.Ne6#

Puzzle 8: 1.Qxf8+ Kxf8 2.Bh6+ Ke8 3.Nc7# or 2…Kg8 3.Rd8#

Puzzle 9: 1.Bc8+ Rxc8 2.Re3 any Black move and 3.Ra3#

Puzzle 10: 1.Rxh8+ Kxh8 2.hxg6+ Kg8 3.Be6+ Kf8 4.Rh8#

Standings:

Open


Name Correct Time


Luke Harmon 10 1:30

Christopher Kao 10 9:46

Tom Polgar 10 11:05

Soren Aletheia 10 12:15

Sayaka Foley 10 14:20

Casper Mulholland 10 15:35

Alex Bian 9 3:50

Kayden Troff 9 6:20

Nicholas Tomlin 9 12:38

Harrison Stanton 9 33:00

Yvonne Trang 8.5 32:00

Brandon Li 8 12:48

Richard Qi 8 12:58

Emily Peterson 8 14:35

Bailey Corry 8 21:07

Christina Kao 8 32:10

Lauren Treiman 7 22:37

Evan Anthopoulos 7 31:35

Kevin Jin 5 17:58

Shelley Anthopoulos 5 31:25

Andrew Perez 5 32:30


U-1000


Becca Lampman 9 26:25

Taylor Bader 9 31:50

Nicholas Naylor 8 19:40

Christopher Griffin 8 23:15

Sam Mason 8 31:30

Eli Karp 7 21:10

Jonathan Naylor 7 23:00

Justin Kao 7 32:05

Brunston Poon 6.5 24:45

Cecilia Tisserand 6 28:29

Diego Guttierrez 6 30:00

Dhruva Chatterjee 6 31:40

Noe Alba-Jimenez 6 31:55

Carmen Pemsler 6 32:45

Thayer Aletheia 5 18:10

Eli Mihoofar 5 32:20

Bernadette Perez 5 33:05

Alexander Taylor 4 18:00

Felix Perez 4 27:25

Cameron Heidenreich 4 32:35

Vince Hung 3 19:30

Ethan Minoofar 3 21:40

Quinten Barker 3 32:55


U-600


Miles Tisserand 9 30:45

Nicole Mann 6 31:45

Bryan Rodriguez 5 31:15

Madison Duffy 5 32:50

Sandra Alba 4 32:15

Bryce Berkbigler 3 31:20

Ricardo Alba 1.5 32:25

River Guinan 1 32:40

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