What do we do?
The activities of Serbian Puzzle Association are going to be popularization of all types of puzzles, as well as organizing puzzle tournaments.
The Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship
Jakub Ondroušek wins the Third Preliminary Contest
On the third preliminary contest there were 20 participants. The winner is last week's runner up Jakub Ondroušek from Czech republic, followed by Florian Kirch from Germany and Nikola Živanović from Serbia. You can look at the complete standings as well as the answers our competitors sent.
This was the last competition before Serbian sudoku championship which will take place in Pančevo next Sunday. Hope you all enjoyed the puzzles and had fun solving them!
The Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship
The Third Preliminary Contest
The third preliminary contest for the Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship organized by Serbian Puzzle Association will be held on Sunday, January 24th starting at 12 pm CET (GMT + 1). The puzzle author is Branko Ćeranić. You can download the instructions with examples, as well as the document with actual contest puzzles. All the instructions are given in the instruction file. The password will be available at the answer page together with the answering form. The time for solving is two hours. The answers will be accepted till at most five minutes after the end, with 5 points penalty for each minute. If you have got any questions, you can ask them at Nikola Živanović's blog "Logika".
The Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship
Taro Arimatsu wins the Second Preliminary Contest
On the second preliminary contest there were 34 participants from 13 countries. The winner is Taro Arimatsu from Japan, with one point advantage over Jakub Ondroušek from Czech republic, and two points advantage over home favourite Branko Ćeranić. The puzzles were rather difficult and nobody managed to solve all of them. The four best solvers solved ten puzzles each. The hardest problem turned out to be number five (hundred), which was solved only by Bojana Vojnović from Serbia. You can look at the complete standings as well as the answers our competitors sent.
The Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship
The Second Preliminary Contest
The second preliminary contest for the Fifth Serbian Sudoku Championship organized by Serbian Puzzle Association willl be held on Sunday, January 17th starting at 12 pm CET (GMT + 1). The puzzle authors are Nikola Živanović and Marko Obradović. You can download the instructions with examples, as well as the document with actual contest puzzles. In this document there won't be any text, all the instructions are given in the instruction file. The document has a small correction, if you had downloaded it on January 14th, please download it again! The password will be available at the answer page together with the answering form. The time for solving is two hours. The answers will be accepted till at most five minutes after the end, with 5 points penalty for each minute. If you have got any questions, you can ask them at Nikola Živanović's blog "Logika".
The Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
Tanasić wins, Tokunaga second with perfect score
Four more competitors joined in the second round to make total of 57 puzzlers from 19 countries. The winner of this year's competition and Serbian champion became Zoran Tanasić from Belgrade, who made one best and three second best solutions to edge the closest competition for just two points. Tomaoki Tokunaga from Japan was brilliant in the second round making perfect 100 score, but it was not enough for the victory. The third is Milovan Kovačević from Novi Sad, Serbia with the same number of points but weaker tiebraker record. Last year's winner Vlad Klyachin from Moscow, Russia, finished fourth, followed by Čedomir Milanović from Kikinda, Serbia who also made huge improvement in the second round. All competitors but one scored at least one point in the competition. Three competitors scored points in every puzzle in the second round.
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The Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
First round results
In the first round of the Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers there were 53 competitors from 18 countries. After the first round the leader is Milovan Kovačević from Novi Sad, Serbia, with four points advantage over Zoran Tanasić from Belgrade, Serbia. The last year's winner Vlad Klyachin from Moscow, Russia, currently occupies the third place, followed by two debutants, Rade Goljović from Baljevac, Serbia and Stefan Gyürki from Salov, Slovakia. All competitors but one scored at least one point in the first round. Four competitors scored points in every puzzle.
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The Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
Second round puzzles
The first round of Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles was successful. There were more than 50 participants from 17 countries. The results will be posted by the end of the week.
We would like to apologize to Estonian puzzlers for mixing up the colors of their flag in puzzle 5. Who knows, maybe if the flag was drawn correctly, it would have been possible to get higher scores.
There is no time to rest, because second round puzzles are already in front of you. Please send your solutions to our email address answers@puzzleserbia.com. We remind you that the deadline for submitting your answers is Sunday, December 13th, 10 P.M. Central European Time.
Good luck!
The Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
First round puzzles
The Second Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles has started. The first round puzzles have been posted. Please send your solutions to our email address answers@puzzleserbia.com. We remind you that the deadline for submitting your answers is Sunday, December 6th, 10 P.M. Central European Time.
Good luck!
Serbian Puzzle Association announces
The Second Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
The second Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles, organized by Serbian Puzzle Association, will start on Monday, November 30th. The contest will last two weeks. It consists of two rounds, seven days each.
There will be 12 optimizer problems in total, 6 per round. Each puzzle has separate scoring system. The contestant (or contestants) with the best solution receives 25 points, second best solution is worth 21 points, the third 18, the fourth 16, the fifth 14, the sixth 12, the seventh 11, and so on. Seventeenth-ranked competitor gets 1 point.
In each round, competitor's score will be the sum of his four highest results. Two lowest scores will not count. In other words, one can score at most 100 points per round.
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Contest for best innovative puzzle
Dragan Tolomanoski wins the contest
The contest for best logic innovative puzzle organized by Serbian Puzzle Association is finished. There were 28 puzzles sent by 9 authors. The members of the jury, Zoran Tanasić, Nikola Živanović and Rohan Rao made their voting and the winner of the contest became Dragan Tolomanoski form Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with his puzzle "Fleet in fenced octopus". You can look at his puzzle, as well as the complete voting table of the jury.
The eighteen puzzles that received at leat one point together with two puzzles by Nikola Živanović will be presented on his blog Logika within the section "Logički novitetii", one puzzle each week.
Serbian Puzzle Association announces
Contest for Best Logic Innovative Puzzle
Serbian Puzzle Association has announced the contest for best logic innovative puzzle. The deadline for sending your papers is 1st of September 2009. The winner will receive 50 euro prize. You can read the full information about the contest. If you have any questions, you can ask them via email of our ass ociation contact@puzzleserbia.com
The First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
Vlad Klyachin wins the championship, Marko Obradović takes the trophy
Vlad Klyachin from Moscow, Russia, is the winner of the First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers. In the second round, he solved six puzzles for a "perfect ten" and surpassed Marko Obradović from Belgrade, Serbia. Finishing second, as the best home competitor, Marko Obradović became the champion of Serbia for the year 2008. Zoran Tanasić from Belgrade, Serbia, took the third place.
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The First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
First round results
In the first round of the First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers there were 32 competitors from 13 countries. After the first round the leader is Marko Obradović from Belgrade, Serbia, with only two points advantage over Vlad Klyachin from Moscow, Russia. Behind them with the same number of points are Goran Vodopija (Zagreb, Croatia), Urmas Raude (Muuga, Estonia) and Zoran Tanasić (Belgrade, Serbia). All competitors scored at least one point in the first round. Čedomir Milanović from Kikinda, Serbia was the only participant who scored points in every puzzle.
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The First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
Second round puzzles
The first round of Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles was successful. There were more than 30 participants from 13 countries. The results will be posted in a few days. There is no time to rest, because second round puzzles are already in front of you. Please send your solutions to our email address answers@puzzleserbia.com. We remind you that the deadline for submitting your answers is Sunday, December 7th, 10 P.M. Central European Time.
Good luck!
The First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
First round puzzles
The First Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles has started. The first round puzzles have been posted. Please send your solutions to our email address answers@puzzleserbia.com. We remind you that the deadline for submitting your answers is Sunday, November 30th, 10 P.M. Central European Time.
Good luck!
Serbian Puzzle Association announces
The First Serbian Open Championship in Optimizers
The first Serbian Open Championship in solving optimizer puzzles, organized by Serbian Puzzle Association, will start on Monday, November 24th. The contest will last two weeks. It consists of two rounds, seven days each.
There will be 14 optimizer problems in total, 7 per round. Each puzzle has separate scoring system. The contestant (or contestants) with the best solution receives 10 points, second best solution is worth 8 points, the third 6, the fourth 5, and so on. Eighth-ranked competitor gets 1 point.
In each round, competitor's score will be the sum of his five highest results. Two lowest scores will not count. In other words, one can score at most 50 points per round.
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17. World Puzzle Championship in Minsk
Serbia 8. in the world!
Belarusian capital Minsk was the host of the 17. World Puzzle Championship from October 27th till November 1st. At this contest of the world best puzzlers Serbia took the eight place. The best result so far, 16. spot in Borovets in 2006, was overthrown by far.
This success was achived by Serbian team members: Nikola Živanović, Dragan Tolomanoski, Marko Obradović, Čedomir Milanović and the team captain Zoran Tanasić. In the individual category among 94 competitors, Nikola was 21st, Dragan 45th, Marko 46th, and Čedomir 51th. The captain Zoran Tanasić competed unofficially and his result would have been good for 72nd place.
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The Fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship
Čedomir Milanović - new champion
The champion of Serbia in logic puzzles solving for the year 2008. is Čedomir Milanović from Kikinda. As a surprise winner, Čedomir took the title ahead of former champion Dragan Tolomanoski form Sarajevo and Marko Obradović from Belgrade, who lost the big point advantage he had after first four sets. Those three puzzlers, together with the author of the puzzles Nikola Živanović, will be the members of the Serbian team in the next World Puzzle Championship, that will take place in Minsk, from October, 27th till November 1st.
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Internet contest TurkZeka
Great success of our competitors
Serbian puzzlers had outstanding results on very prestigious contest on Turkish internet site TurkZeka. Zoran Tanasić took fourth, and Čedomir Milanović sixth place among 214 participants. Our third competitor, Milovan Kovačević was 26. and had he not skipped four rounds, his result would have also been in top ten. The first two were Japanese puzzlers Yoichi Enta and Takanori Fujii, and the third was Meng-Hsuan Wu from Chinese Taipei.
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The Fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship
Belgrade hosts the event
The Fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship will be held on Saturday, September 6th in Belgrade. The event will take place at Military Veterans Association of Zvezdara, located in 9a Duško Radović Street, Mirijevo (see the map). The competition starts at 10 A.M .
The Fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship
Instruction booklet posted
The author of the puzzles, Nikola Živanović, has posted the instruction booklet for the forthcoming championship. Every puzzle is illustrated with a simple example. The instruction booklet is available in Serbian in PDF format. You can ask author questions about these puzzles on his blog.
The Fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship
Preliminary schedule
As previously announced, the fourth Serbian Puzzle Championship will be held on 6th of September 2008. The place will be soon decided between Belgrade and Novi Sad. The championship is also qualifying - the best three competitors will qualify for the next World Puzzle Championship in Minsk. Everybody has right to participate. The applications should be sent by e-mail before 20th of August. For members of Serbian Puzzle Association, participation is free, others will pay the fee of 800 dinars.
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US Puzzle Championship
Our puzzlers did well
On 14th of June 2008. the world's most popular puzzle contest, the US Puzzle Championship was held. Six hundred puzzlers from all over the world took part in it, and among them ther were ten participants from Serbia. The contest was held via internet, it lasted two and a half hours, and there were 20 puzzles to be solved.
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World Puzzle Championship 2009
Turkey hosts next championship
The host of World Puzzle Championship 2009 will be Turkey , it was decided by votes of countries members of the World Puzzle Federation. Turkey got fifteen votes, while Serbia, only other candidate, got three. The WPF thanked Serbian Puzzle Association for participating, and encouraged Serbia to run again for hosting 2010 event. The Turks will organize the championship in Antalya or Kapadokya.
24-hours marathon in Budapest
Serbian marathoners made it
Our puzzlers performed very well at the 9th championship in 24-hour logic puzzles contest that was held from 7th till 9th of June in Budapest. Nikola Živanović took the third place, although during more than half of the competition he was in the lead. Čedomir Milanović was 17th, Milovan Kovačević 19th and Zoran Tanasić 22nd. The winner of this logic marathon was Michael Ley from Germany , while second came last year's champion, Hungarian Zoltan Horvat.
Serbian Puzzle Association announces
Serbian Puzzle Championship on September 6th
The fourth Serbian Puzzle championship will be organised by SErbian Puzzle Association on 6th of September 2008. This competition will also be the qualification for this year's World Puzzle Championsip that will take place in Belarus from 27th of October till 1st of November. Besides Nikola Živanović, who is going to make the puzzles, three best competitors will earn their place in Serbian national team. The championship is open for everyone interested and for the members of Serbian Puzzle Association the entry is free.
World Puzzle Championship 2009
Serbia submitted application
During world sudoku championship in India, an unofficial meeting of World Puzzle Federation (WPF) leaders with team captains was held, and we have good news. Serbia became a candidate to organize the World Puzzle Championship 2009. The voting will be done via internet from 1st till 8th of June. Besides Serbia, other candidates are Belarus and Turkey.
Third World Sudoku Championship (Goa, 14-17th April 2008.)
Serbian sudokists 13th in the world
Four Serbian sudoku team members came back from India , where they successfully participated at the third World Sudoku Championship that was held from April 14th and 17th in Goa. National champion Nikola Živanović from Sombor came 18th among 89 competitors from 30 countries. Bojana Vojnović from Belgrade was 39th and improved her result by 73 places, as at the last year's championship she was 112th. Serbian vice-champion Dragan Tolomanoski from Sarajevo finished 41st, and Dragan Stojanović from Belgrade 47th. In team category, Serbia finished 13th, which is three spots lower than last year.
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The first scheduled session of SZS was held in Belgrade
Zoran Tanasić - new president
On 24th of February 2008. the first scheduled session of Serbian Puzzle Association (SZS) was held in Belgrade. Zoran Tanasić was elected to be the president of the organization.
Third Serbian Sudoku Chamnpionship
Nikola Živanović wins again
On Sunday, 9th of December 2007. the Third Serbian Sudoku Championship was held in Music school "Mokranjac" in Belgrade. After three sets of problems, of which some were very difficult, Nikola Živanović from Sombor took the gold medal, having collected 64 out of maximum 88 points. Dragan Tolomanoski from Sarajevo came second, while the third came 18-year old Bojana Vojnović from Belgrade, with the same number of points as Tolomanoski, but with weaker tiebreaker record.
The fourth member of the Serbian team for WSC 2008 in India is Dragan Stojanović from Belgrade, and the first reserve is Vesna Jovanović, also from Belgrade.
The problems were created by eminent Croatian puzzlers Siniša Hrga and Alfredo Ivankov, and the tournament's official was Zoran Radisavljević. The MENSA association helped SZS with the organization.
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16. World Puzzle Championship (Rio de Janeiro, 6-11th October 2007)
Good performance of Serbian puzzlers
The most attractive Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 16. World Puzzle Championship. Serbian competitors did well, even though due to the expensive plane tickets, the team was not at the full strength. Facing the very tough competition, notable results achived Nikola Živanović (19th place among 95 competitors) and Dragan Tolomanoski (33th), while Marko Obradović (83th) and Zoran Radisavljević (89th), besides their enormous efforts ended the competition in the bottom part of the list.
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Third Serbian logic puzzle championship
Tolomanoski wins the trophy in style
The third Serbian championship in logic puzzles was held in Novi Sad on 12th of August. There participated 14 competitors and the new champion became Dragan Tolomanoski from Sarajevo, who collected 375 out of possible 480 points. The same score, but with weaker tiebreaker record, had the "invincible" Nikola Živanović from Sombor. The second surprise was Marko Obradović from Belgrade, who was in the lead after first set, performed well in the other sets too, eventually winning the bronze medal. The fourth member of Serbian team will be Jelena Đurić, who had only half a point more than Dragan Stojanović.
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8th Tomislav Munišić's memorial was held in Čačak
Victories of Marko Obradović, Sofija Necin and Nikola Živanović
Everyone will remember 8. Tomislav Munišić's memorial, held on the 30th of June and 1st of July in Čačak, as beautiful event. Agile organizers, led by Radoje Damljanović (one of the participants in sudoku championship), made the enormous efforts to make this event success. They are the big favourites to organize the event next year, too. The atmosphere was excellent, the accommodation in “ Morava ” hotel was good, and the prizes for winners were surprisingly valuable. Beside that, the hosts prepared sudoku-cake, that had “Svi ste pobednici” (all of you are winners) written on it. Well done!
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