TOURNEY MAGAZINE “PHENIX” 2022

The French magazine “Phenix” is looking for original orthodox studies (theme free, entries will be published in the magazine) for its informal tourney for the year 2022

– Please send your entries to Daniel Capron : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until october 31 2022.

Judge: Mirko Miljanić (Serbia)

The preliminary award of the tourney will be sent to participants by e-mail and will be published in the site Internet of “Phenix” and in the magazine.

SACHOVA SKLADBA  2021

Studies, no set theme

–  Judge : Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine)

–  Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

--  Send studies to: Jiri Jelinek or Jaroslav Polasek:

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Information about competitions in other genres: Pavel Kamenik – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Also see this link;   http://problem64.beda.cz/ss/rozhodci.htm

STRATEGEMS – 2021 – Moremovers & Studies

Moremovers – Editor: Richard Becker – :This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Judge: Alexander Kuzovkov.(Russia) .

Studies – Editor : Franjo Vrabec: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– Judge: Pavel Arestov

– Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

Problem Paradise Japan 2021

Studies, informal tourney, no set theme

- Judge: Mario G. García (Argentina)

- Entries should be sent to: Hiroshi Manabe, Mita 5-7-12-805, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073, Japan

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- Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

- The  award  will be sent to participants by e-mail.

- Closing date: 31th October 2021

D) Endgame studies Theme: One or more minor pieces and optionally pawns against one or more pawns. In the
initial position there may be additional pieces. Slogan: Win (for either the pawns or for the minor pieces) or
Draw.

Send entries to tournament director: to

Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.
Send problems and studies in format Word and PDF.
Closing date: 30. 08. 2022. The award – 2022

All received problems will be presented to the judges in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: http://frme.fr.nf

44th World Chess Olympiad of 2020

The All-Russian Public Organization “The Chess Federation of Russia” (CFR) and, at the request of the CFR, the Commission for Chess Composition (CCC) announce an international chess composing tournament dedicated to the 44th World Chess Olympiad of 2020.

The chess composing tournament will be conducted in the following eight sections: twomovers; threemovers; moremovers; endgame studies;

helpmates; selfmates in 2-12 moves; fairy compositions; retros and proofgames.

The number of entries from one author in a section must not exceed two.

Moreover, only one individual composition will be allowed, i.e. one author can maximally submit oneindividual and one joint composition or two joint entries.

The number of co-authors of collective compositions is not limited.

All compositions are to be sent by email to the Executive Director of the tournament Vitaliy Medintsev, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

The closing date is postponed !

All participants are asked to present their entries not only on diagrams but also in FEN notation.

Information on the tournament, including the award, will be posted on the CFR website: https://ruchess.ru/.

The judges are:

Twomovers – V.Markovtsiy (Ukraine),   

Threemovers – V. Kirillov (Russia),

Moremovers – V. Volchek (Belarus),

Endgame studies – M. Hlinka (Slovakia),

Helpmates – B. Shorokhov (Russia),

Selfmates in 2-12moves – V. Kopyl (Ukraine),

Fairies – P. Petkov (Bulgaria), Retros – V. Crisan (Romania).

Additional information on the Fairies section from the judge P. Petkov: 1.All types of fairy stipulations are allowed. There are no restrictions on the use of fairy pieces and conditions. 2. Only computer-tested (C+) entries will be allowed. The author must specify the pro-gram (and the program’s version) that was used to test the entry. Entries without such in-formationwill not be accepted for the tournament.

The preliminary award will be posted on the website http://www.selivanov.world/.

The preliminary award may also be presented on a number of other sites. After the publication of the preliminary award, the participants will have 1 month for submitting their claims of defects and anticipations.

After analyzing the claims, the judges will prepare the final award in each section. The CFR will present certificates and commemorative medals to the winners of the tournament.

The judges will also receive commemorative medals.

EG 2020-2021

EG, the only periodical exclusively devoted to endgame studies, announces an informal tourney for original studies.
The studies and the award will be published in EG.

You are strongly urged to only send your best and most creative works.
The original’s editor will only select very good studies for publication.
Please send your originals in PGN-format to the editor Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The judge for the 2020-2021 tourney is Yochanan Afek.

 INTERNET TOURNAMENT CHESS MAGAZINE CHESSSTAR – 2021

– The products will be accepted until December 31, 2021 were established: Awards, honorable mentions and accolades.

– Judges for 2021 are :

# 2- Givi Mosiashvili (Georgia)
# 3- Eugene Fomichev (Russia)
# N-Bosko Miloseski (Macedonia)

– Studies: a) studies Win, b) studies Draw).  Mario G.García (Argentina)

– Preliminary results will be published on the website and sent to all subscribers on January 31, 2020.
– Tournament Director Ferhat Karmil (Turkey)

 The Problemist composing tourney 2022 by the British Problem Society

SCHACH 2022-2023

Studies, no set theme
– Judges:
Studies– Martin Minski

2 # Wassyl Djatschuk,
3 # Frank Reinhold,
n # Martin Hoffmann,
h # Christopher Jones,
s # Hans Gruber.

Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.
Send studies to: Franz Pachl – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Closing date: september 30th 2022/23

ZADACHY I ETIUDY- 2021 

# 2 – P. Zabirokhin (San Petersburgo),

# 3 – Y. Gorbatenko (Chelyabinsk),

#n – V.Kirillov (región de Sverdlovsk),

studies – Valery Kalashnikov (Ekaterimburgo),

H # – V. Nefedov (Chelyabinsk), S # – A. Mikholap (Bielorrusia),

F # – A. Stepochkin (Tula). – The problemas and studies will be published as originals in the  magazine Zadachy I Etiudy  during 2021. 

Send to  –email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Closing date : 15 November 2021

VARIANTIM – 2021

– The studies will be published as originals in the Israeli magazine Variantim during 2020.

– Judge : Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe (Norway)

– Director : Gady Costeff.  

Please send studies in PGN format to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The results will be published in 4/2022 (first issue of the year)

Award 2016  –  Award 2017 –Award 2018 – Look  Originals of 2011 to 2019 –

Sachova Skladba 2019-2020

Studies, no set theme

– Judge : Yochanan Afek

- Send studies to: Jiri Jelinek or Jaroslav Polasek This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  –This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

DIE SCHWALBE 2019- 2020

The German chess problem society’s magazine “Die Schwalbe”  informal tourney for original studies,

Please send your originals per e-mail to Michael Roxlau: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Judge: Vaszha Neidze.

All entries and later the award will be published in “Die Schwalbe”.

The award will have at least the usual three months confirmation time. 

All authors receive the issues of the magazine with the original publication, the solutions (usually six months later) and the award .

Please include your postal address for this reason.

SHAKHMATNAYA KOMPOZICIA- 2020

Studies, no set theme – Judge:Vasily Lebedev (Russia).

- The studies will be published as originals in the  magazine Shakmatnaya Kompozicia   during 2020.

Send to Sergey Osintsev – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Strategems 2020

Moremovers

– Editor: Richard Becker – :This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– Judge: ………….

– Studies

– Editor : Franjo Vrabec: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– Judge:   Michal Hlinka

– Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

The Problemistic Bulletin – Edicion 2018-2020

Studies, no set theme.

Entries should be sent to : Editor : Dan Constantin Gurgui – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

judge: Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen

- Publications-Look link Nº89

TEHTÄVÄNIEKKA 2020 - 2021

Finnish Chess Problem Society's magazine Tehtäväniekka 2020-2021

Original studies for an informal tourney

A sample issue (1/2013) can be downloaded via http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/st/stmag.htm

Studies: No set theme. Judge: 2020-21: Amatzia Avni (Israel)

Send your entries to the editor: Joose Norri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 8th Composing Tourney

in four 8 sections:

Twomovers (#2) Judge: Kabe Moen(USA)
Send to tournament director: Mustapha Bakani (Marocco) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Threemovers (#3) Judge: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)
Moremovers (#N) Judge: Oleg Efrosinin (Russia)

Studies (+;=) Judge: Franjo Vrabec (Sweden)

Selfmates (S#) Judge: Yuri Gordian(Ukraine)

Send to tournament director: Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan)
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Helpmates H#2 Judge: Marko Klasinc (Slovenia)
Helpmates H#2.5-3 Judge: Harry Fougiaxis(Greece)
Helpmates H#3.5-N Judge: Vladimir Lastivka(Ukraine)
Send to tournament director: Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco)

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The theme in all sections is free.
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.
Send problems and studies in format Word and PDF.
Closing date: 30. 09. 2022. The award – 2022

All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: frme.fr.nf

 See website:  https://www.chessstar.com/index.php