
1999: 8th
WPC Budapest, Hungary.
The 8th
World Puzzle Championship was held in Budapest, and was won by Wei-Hwa
Huang (USA), for a third time in a row. Best team was the team of the United
States.
Full results
of the individual competition can be found here.
All the
team competition results can be found here.
Also some
reports of this WPC are available. One by Niels
Roest (The Netherlands), one by Zack
Butler (USA) and one by me. Also I provided
a picturebook on the non puzzling part of
this WPC.
Puzzles
of this championship are published in Worldclass
puzzles from the World Puzzle Champioships Volume 2.
Also a
Dutch version is published by Tirion and Puzzelsport
under the title "Wereldpuzzels". It also contains the Dutch preliminary
and final round puzzles and some puzzles of the Hungarian national round.
(ISBN 90-4390-025-7)
The puzzles
are also available on line.
And, for
the first time, there is an
official site of the hosting committee.
Also the
American and Canadian Qualification round of 1999 is on
line.
The 3rd
Dutch Puzzle Championship was held in Hoofddorp, and won by Niels Roest.
Full results of this championships can be found here.
Also the results of the 1999 Dutch preliminary round are available.
Copyright
2001, Tim Peeters
Last updated:
December 10th 2001