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Jan Timman wins the Pal Benko 90 Jubilee Tournament.
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Amos Gilboa and Yochanan Afek win the Velimir Kalandadze Memorial Ty 2019
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Sergey Didukh winner of the 7th FIDE World Cup 2019 !
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Tarasiuk and Garcia win the Israeli Ring Ty 2018
The 2018 tournament of the Israeli periodical Variantim, also known as the Israeli Ring Tourney, was judged by Peter Gyarmati (Hungary). He awarded 12 of 21 entries. First prize went to the Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine) and Mario Guido Garcia (Argentina) with a large scale dramatic work encompassing the whole board. Second prize by Amatzia Avni (Israel) was a study showing a theoretical draw where Black despite being a piece up cannot improve his position. Finally third prize went to the Slovakian duo Kekely and Hlinka with another theoretical draw this time ending in stalemate. There were 4 honourable mentions and 5 commendations.
Read the award as PDF in Awards Files
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Nielsen and Minski win the "E4 e5 100 Year Cup 2018" tournament
The 100 Year Cup 2018 was an informal tourney held by the Romanian magazine "E4 E5". The judge, Sergei Osintsev, awarded half of the 24 submitted studies for the tourney. First prize went to the Danish/German duo Steffen Nielsen and Martin Minski with a tactical and logical study inspired by one the most famous games of all time – Wilhelm Steinitz' win over Curt von Bardeleben at Hastings 1895. In second place came another duo: Pavel Arestov (Russia) and Daniel Keith (France) showing two minor promotions in miniature form, while Sergey Didukh (Ukraine) secured 3rd prize with a study showing both Black and White logical foresight
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Polish Tourney 2018: Kuzmichev surprise winner with two spectacular studies
The annual tourney of the Polish Chess Federation was surprisingly dominated by Russian Vladimir Kuzmichev who won both 1st and 2nd prize. The first prize study was a miniature with allumwandlung split up in two lines. The study that secured Kuzmichev the double was almost as spectacular: White sacrificed four pieces in succession to win in style with his remaining promoted queen. There were also prizes to Minski/Nielsen (3rd), Gurgenidze/Minski (4th) and Gromov/Pervakov (5th). The judge, Jan Rusinek, evaluated a total of 49 studies. The preliminary award (PDF in Polish).
Arpad Rusz (Romania) wins Problemist Ukraine 2017-18
The award is ready for the biannual endgame study tournament of the periodical Problemist Ukraine.
The tournament of 2017-18 was judged by Sergei Osintsev, who awarded first prize to Arpad Rush for rook study showing asymmetry and long foresight.
Second prize went to the German duo Wieland Bruch and Martin Minski for a new interpertration of the age old theme of smothered mate.
The third prize study by Steffen Nielsen showed a new rook sacrifice in a R+P vs R+P ending. All in all the tournament saw 24 studies, of which all but 7 were awarded.
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Michail Hlinka and Mario Garcia win the Ceskoslovensky Sach 2018 magazine tournament: Ceskoslovensky Sach 2018
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Djurasevic and Campioli win Steniczka 90-MT – 12 year old Christopher Yoo wins his first prize
The provisional award of the Helmut Steniczka 90 Memorial Tournament is now available here: Steniczka 90 MT 2019.
The tournament was judged by Peter Krug (Austria).
The winner of the win section was Branislav Djurasevic (Serbia), showing a series of surprises with the difficult material NNB vs R.
In the draw section Marco Campioli (Italy) was succesful with an eventful 30 move study.
The tournament also saw a young newcomer to the scene of study tournaments.
American Christopher Yoo won 3rd prize in the win section and even cemented his succesful debut with a special honourable mention in the draw section.
Christopher Yoo is an OTB FM with a current rating of 2426, making him the 8th highest rated U14 player in the world.
Christopher Yoo
(picture taken by Austin Fuller for the Saint Louis Chess Club)
All in all 43 studies from 23 composers competed.
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Final award for the Michal Hlinka 65 Jubilee Tournament available, Hlinka 65 JT 2019.
See also: http://www.sach.cz/
Winner in Section A: Yuri Bazlov
and co-winners in section B: Jaroslav Polasek, Martin Minski & Oleg Pervakov and Geir S.Tallaksen Ostmoe.
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Oleg Pervakov is the winner of Persitz MT 2019
The Raaphi Persitz MT 2019 saw 37 studies judged by Amatzia Avni who described the tournament as being "of mixed quality".
The winner was Oleg Pervakov (Russia) ahead of Yuri Bazlov (Russia) in second and the German/Danish duo Martin Minski and Steffen Nielsen in third.
All three studies were highly tactical with mutual sacrifices. Jan Timman won a special prize for a surprising finish
showing two consecutive en passant captures closing defensive lines to the mating square.
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Rusz, Bruch and Minski win the Attila Koranyi Memorial tournament
The provisional award for the 2018 informal tourney of the magazine Magyar Sakkvilag is ready.
The tournament in honour of Attila Koranyi was won by two studies.
Arpad Rusz (Romania) showed a tactical study with a knight shockingly interfering two lines at once while sacrificing a queen.
The other, highly, unusual first prize study by Wieland Bruch and Martin Minski (both Germany) had a mainline of only four action-packed moves.
The tournament was judged by Peter Gyarmati (Hungary).
Koranyi MT 2018 (studies replayable)
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40 contestants for the WCCI 2016-2018
The deadline of entries for the WCCI 2016-18 study section has come and gone. 40 composers from a total of 16 countries,
including the top three finishers from the last championship, have submitted between 4 and 6 of their best studies for the
given period, and are now fighting for the titel of World Champion. The number of contestants for the previous championship was 35.
The competing composers in alphabetical order:
Afek, Yochanan (Israel); Aliev, Ilham (Azerbaijan) Arestov, Pavel (Russia), Avni, Amatzia(Israel); Bazlov, Yuri (Russia); Becker, Richard (USA); Borodavkin, Sergey(Ukraine); Didukh, Sergiy (Ukraine); Djurasevic, Branislav (Serbia); Gasparyan, Aleksey (Armenia); Gatti, Daniele (Italy); Gonzalez, Luis Miguel (Spain); Hlebec, Darko (Serbia); Ilincic, Borislav (Serbia); Jasik, Andrzej (Poland); Kalashnikov, Valery (Russia); Keith, Daniel (France); Khramtsevich, Mikhail (Belarus); Kopylov, Evgeny (Russia); Krug, Peter (Austria); Miljanic, Mirko (Serbia); Miloseski, Bosko (Macedonia); Minski, Martin (Germany); Neistadt, Vladimir (Russia); Nielsen, Steffen Slumstrup (Denmark); Oganesjan, Alexey (Russia); Ostmoe, Geir Sune Tallaksen (Norway); Pervakov, Oleg (reigning Champion, Russia); Popov, Alexei (Russia); Popov, Grigory (Russia); Rusz, Arpad (Romania); Samilo, Vladimir (Ukraine); Skripnik, Anatoly (Russia); Sochnev, Alexey (Russia); Syzonenko, Viktor (Ukraine); Stavrietskiy, Aleksandr (Russia); Tarasiuk, Vladislav (Ukraine); Topko, Leonid (Ukraine); Villeneuve, Alain (France); Yarmonov, Igor (Ukraine);
See the entries at the WFCC website.
The five judges, Martin Minski (Germany), Harold van der Heijden (The Netherlands), Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark), Arpad Rusz (Romania) and Peter Gyarmati (Hungary) now have until May 31th, 2019 to finish their verdicts. The final results will be published on June 30th, 2019 at the latest.
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Due to the change of Judge the Provisional Award (planned for 15 Jan) for the Benko 90 JT will be delayed.
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Nielsen wins ChessStar 2018
The annual tourney of the chessstar.com website was won by Steffen Nielsen (Denmark) with a tactical battle ending in a subtle bishop endgame.
The duo Pervakov/Sumbatyan secured 2nd prize with a logical study where a seemingly anonymous pawn on h7 plays the central role.
The tourney was judged by Sergiy Didukh.
23 studies participated. The award (in Russian).
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FIDE Album 2016-2018 announcement
Composers are invited to submit their best studies for the FIDE Album 2016-18
Read the announcement on the WFCC Website
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15-12-2018: Pavel Arestov and Aleksandr Zhukov are the winners of the Shahmat Bestechiliyi 15 JT 2018
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26-11-2018: Vladislav Tarasiuk is the winner of the 6th FIDE World Cup 2018 !
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25-11-2018: 19th Ukraine championship won by Vladislav Tarasiuk.
Ukraine 19th Championship 2018
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In the draw section (22 studies) the winners are David Gurgenidze (Georgia) and Martin Minski (Germany)with a tactical study ending up in a spectacular stalemate reminding us of a famous study by Gurgenidze himself from 1985 (HHDBV # 28338; Polish Chess Federation Tourney, 1st prize).
The second prize winner is a surprise, namely Marc Gelly, a French composer who up until now has no study to his name in the Harold van der Heijden database.
Third prize is won by Marco Campioli (Italy) in typically eventful and dramatic style.
The judge for both the win and the draw section was Michal Hlinka (Slovakia).
24-11-2018: Provisional award: Caputto-95 JT 2018 UAPA 7th
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Martin Minski wins The Problemist tournament 2016-2017
22-11-2018: Replay all the studies here: The Problemist 2016-2017
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The Moscow Tournament of 2018 is won by Romanian Arpad Rusz
with a highly original rook endgame resulting in a mating attack after mutual queen promotions.
The move 4. Rh1!!, in comparison to the try 4. Rf1?, the composer describes as a "pseudo-Turton", securing that the (not yet promoted) queen gets decisive access to a8 from g8.
All in all, 30 studies competed and judge Sergey Osintsev decided to award 5 prizes (1 special prize).
22-11-2018: Moscow 2018
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Pervakov and Didukh win the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad
An endgame study tourney was held in connection with the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad.
There were two sections, both judged by International Arbiter David Gurgenidze.
The win section was won by Oleg Pervakov with an epic tactical study featuring a suble logical try.
In the draw section Sergey Didukh was succesful with a logical study showing long foresight effect in a knight endgame.
The awards are awailable here (in PDF):
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21-11-2018: Gravure 2018
The study section of the Gravure tourney 2018 saw the Russian duo Oleg Pervakov and Mikhail Gromov winning ahead of a field of 18 composers.
Gravure is a traditional cross genre tourney requiring studies and problems with 8-10 pieces.
The winning study shows a highly suprising tactic (9. Rg5!!) as well a thematic try where a similar move (9. Rh5+) fails to work.
The second prize went to Sergei Osintsev, likewise from Russia. Oleg Pervakov secured another strong tournament result winning third prize.
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18-11-2018: Provisional award 4th Royal Maroc Chess Federation: FMRE 4th Moroccan 2018
17-10-2018: Kondratyuk 70 MT 2018
2-10-2018: Die Schwalbe 2016
30-9-2018: Pat a Mat 2016-2017
and Problem Paradise 2016-2017.
17-9-2018: 3rd Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2018
Provisional award JIRTDAN 2018.
16-9-2018: Hillel Aloni 80 MT 2017 (Updated 15.10.2018)
27-8-2018: Uralski Problemist 25 JT 2018
Only author is Mirko Miljanić from Serbia and this is not joint composition with Branislav Djurašević.
1-9-2018: Mario G. Garcia 70 JT 2018, (Updated 2-11-2018)
two sections: Wins: Garcia 70 JT 2018 A , Draws: Garcia 70 JT 2018 B
20-8-2018: UAPA 6th 2018
18-8-2018: Yerevan-2800 JT 2018
27-7-2018: Award Tarasiuk 50 JT 2018
15-7-2018: Paul Joitsa 80 MT 2017
6-7-2018: Phenix 2017
25-6-2018: StrateGems 2017
11-6-2017: German magazine Schach 2016-2017
14-5-2017: Magyar Sakkvilag 2017.
9-5-2018: Variantim April 2018 with Hoch 70 JT - Israeli Ring Ty Studies 2016 (partly in Hebrew).
28-4-2018: Zinchuk-80 MT 2018 (Russian PDF).
Also published in "Problemist of Ukraine", N2/2018.
26-3-2018: Halberstadt 50 MT 2017.
18-3-2017: Ceskoslovensky Sach 2017
17-3-2017: Samir Badalov-55 MT 2017.
15-3-2018: Stigter-64 JT 2017.
12-3-2018: Sosiura 120 MT 2017.
24-2-2018: Babich 110 MT and Olimpiev 80 MT 2017.
17-2-2018: ChessStar 2017.
14-2-2018: Polish Chess Federation 2017.
29-1-2018: UAPA 5th 2017.
16-1-2018: Magazine Ty EG 2016-2017
15-01-2018: e4-e5 10 JT 2017 (pdf page 625).
5-1-2018: Peter Krug 50 JT 2017
Georgian Internet TT 2014.
22-12-2017: Andrew Malyshko 105 MT (PDF en PGN in Russian),
Mark Dvoretsky 70 MT (PGN in russian) report at website of Sergei Didukh.
18-12-2017: Arves 9th Jenever Ty 2016,
Joaquín Pérez de Arriaga 85 JT,
Tehtäväniekka 2014‒2016.
15.12-2017: (PDF in Russian and summary in English) Armenia 1st Cup 2017.
14.12.2017 Final award Jan Timman 65 JT, two sections: Jan Timman 65 JT Section1 and Jan Timman 65 JT Section2
7.12.2017 Zadachy i Etyudi 2016.
and here are 20 best studies: 10th World Chess Composition Tournament 2015-2017 Preliminary.
WCCT 10 Entries available here.
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