Robert Babilon

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World Puzzle Championship

History (and future)

See the results

Very nice information (with photos etc.) about WPC's you can also find on the Bastei pages.

1st WPC - New York (USA) - 1992

2nd WPC - Brno (Czech Republic) - 1993

3rd WPC - Cologne (Germany) - 1994

4th WPC - Poiana Brasov (Romania) - 1995, October, 23-26

• Zack Butler's report
• Some puzzles

5th WPC - Utrecht (The Netherlands) - 1996, October, 15-20

• Zack Butler's report
• Some puzzles of the individual competition
• Another puzzles of the individual competition
• Some puzzles of the team competition

6th WPC - Koprivnica (Croatia) - 1997, September, 23-28

• Zack Butler's report
• Robert Babilon's report (in Czech)

7th WPC - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1998, September, 22-27

• Zack Butler's report

8th WPC - Budapest (Hungary) - 1999, October, 5-10

• All the puzzles
• Zack Butler's report

9th WPC - Stamford (USA) - 2000, October, 11-15

• Official pages (with all the puzzles)

10th WPC - 2001 - Brno (Czech Republic)
11th WPC - 2002 - Oulu (Finland)

The competitors are in yellow color, the other persons in white.

Czech Republic
Robert Babilon: babilon@email.cz and his Home page
Pavel Kalhous: p.kalhous@cz.ibm.com
Petr Vejchoda: vejchoda@ff.cuni.cz

USA
Nick Baxter: nick@visigenic.com
Andrew Brecher: abrecher@erols.com
Zack Butler: zackb@cs.cmu.edu and his Home page
Wei-Hwa Huang: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu and his Home page
Daniel Johnson: panoptes@iquest.net and his Home page
Ron Osher: ron_osher@prodigy.com
Helene Hovanec: helene_hov@aol.com
Will Shortz: wshortz@aol.com
Stanley Newman: snewman@randomhouse.com

Poland
Krzysztof Ligienza: einstein@piast.t19.ds.pwr.wroc.pl and his Home page
Marek Penszko: penczo@polbox.com
Jacek Sczczap: jszczap@supermedia.pl

Netherlands
Peter Ritmeester: r&g@ritmeester.demon.nl
Hans Eendebak: h.eendebak@tijdschriften.vnu.com
Rob Geensen: r.geensen@tijdschriften.vnu.com
Ton Peek: t.peek@tijdschriften.vnu.com

Germany
Manfred Heynisch: m.heynisch@analytik-jena.de
Birgit Rosenthal: puzzle@brosenthal.de
Beate Mueller: beate@mesembs.de
Andreas Franz: nathalie_franz@berg.net

Turkey
Kamer Alyanakyan, Metin Balci: zbilgisayar@superonline.com
Umud Yalcin: uyalcin@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
Nejat Cingi: cingi@leland.stanford.edu and his Home page
Ferhat Calapkulu: zbilgisayar@superonline.com
Nevzat Erkmen: nerkmen@turk.net
Husnu Sincar: Sincar.H@pg.com

Hungary
Istvan Gyorgy: istvangy@mail.matav.hu

Japan
Tsuyoshi Kaneko: t-kaneko@nri.co.jp
Masayuki Tsunaiguchi: tsuna@faz.so-net.or.jp
Tetsuya Nishio: tetsuya@interlink.or.jp

Finland
Juha Hyvonen: juha.hyvonen@hut.fi
Juhani Heino: juhani.heino@vtt.fi

Croatia
Stjepan Horvat: cvor@bj.tel.hr

Russia
Vladimir Dubrovsky: dubr@aesc.msu.ru

Argentina
Pablo E. Coll: pecoll@dc.uba.ar
Rodolfo Kurchan: nildafur@cvtci.com.ar
Pablo Milrud: pablo@milrud.ba.ar
Eduardo Abel Gimenez: egimenez@satlink.com
Jaime Poniachik: poniachik@sinectis.com.ar

Italy
Mario Velucchi: velucchi@yahoo.com and his Home page


If you are the competitor of any World Puzzle Championship and you want to be (or not to be) on this list, send me a mail. Do this also in case of some error in your e-mail or home page address.

Author: Robert Babilon
E-mail: babilon@email.cz