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 Latest News

update: 28-March-2023

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Alexander Zhukov  has composed 3 original and brilliant studies dedicated to me,

(webmaster of Arves) for my 65th birthday anniversary !

Thank you very much Alexander !!! 

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In the Shakhmatnaya Kompozitsiya 2022 5 studies are awarded.

Winners: M.Gromov with Oleg,Pervakov

2nd prize for the duo L. and V. Katsnelson

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The results and studies of Arves Solvingcontest 2023: Oploswedstrijd 2023

Winner: Dmitrijus Chocenka 

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Michael Pasman wins the first prize of the Problemist Ukraine 2022

Second prize to the duo: Steffen Nielsen and Martin Minski.

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For the Prusikin 45 JT 2023 

the first prize winner is Jan Timman

2nd prize to Sergiy Didukh

3rd prize for Jan Sprenger

4th prize to Steffen Nielsen

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New edition of the spanish Finales Y Temas 127 with the final award results of the UAPA 18th.

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Is there someone who may have a picture of one of these two english composers?

Ellison, Wallace 1911-1999

Sansom, Claude 1914-2013

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 Book review: Anthology of miniature Endgame Studies

 

New book: Anthology of Miniature Endgame Studies by

Afek, Yochanan 1952.

More than 2000 works of art many of which have become classics,

various periods, composers, themes and styles are represented.

At this website it is for sale with this text:

Solving endgame studies has become a major working tool in modern chess training combining the instructive with the enjoyable.

Studies are highly recommended for refining calculating and tactical skills, deepening endgame understanding,

as well as improving creativity and out of the box thinking.

The Anthology of Miniature Endgame Studies is the biggest selection of composed endings with up to seven pieces on the board,

created by the world’s best composers throughout the past 150 years.

The carefully selected studies are categorized into thematic chapters.

The game-like positions highlight the power and typical qualities of each piece alone and in collaboration with other pieces.

From the foreword by GM Jan Timman: “Endgame studies are in fact an important factor in becoming a strong player.

It is significant that both Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen have a keen interest in endgame studies.  

It is praiseworthy that Chess Informant was ready to publish this important work. Afek is arguably the most qualified person to write it.”

 

You can download or look into an Excerpt of the book, with more than 50 examples.

 

Task on the cover of the book, white plays and wins:

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For the Polish Chess Fed 2022 tournament the prize winners are:

1. Bogusz Piliczewski,

2. Michael Pasman,

3. Sergey Didukh,

4. Andrzej Jasik

5. Peter Krug

6. Michael Pasman.

 

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24 new PDFs available of magazine EG: EG issues 191 - 214

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In the ChessStar 2022 tournament the first and second prize are for

World Champion: Steffen Nielsen.

3rd prize to Michael Pasman.

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In the Selivanov 55 Jubilee Tournament 2022 the winner is Pavel Arestov.

2nd prize for Yuri Bazlov

3rd prize for Luis Miguel Gonzalez.

4th prize also for Pavel Arestov.

See PDF (section D, page 16)  in Awards Files.

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3 new articles for composers:

Blundell, David 1962

Zheltukhov, Viktor 1940

Ranken, Charles 1828-1905

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In the miniature tournament Zhigulovskie Zori 2022,

the first prize is for  Luis Miguel Gonzalez,

2nd prize for Jan Sprenger, 3rd prize to Michael Pasman.

See the PDF in Awards Files.

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As we just have showed many new books about Endgame studies,

here you may find all of the books (66!!) issued and written by Arves-member:

 Grondijs, Harrie 1946

For details about each book, just click on the picture of the book.

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Interesting book (issued by Vasily Lebedev) titled 

111 Magic Studies

composed by Zhukov, Alexander 1963

It is in Russian language, beautiful hard-cover and has more than 500 pages.

More about it at the composers page where also many of the studies in the book are showed.

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EG 231 is issued and contains:

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Attention for the new Fide Album:

In eight sections you will find 273 two-movers, 241 three-movers, 159 moremovers

, 227 endgame studies,

400 helpmates, 215 selfmates, 357 fairy compositions and 112 retros.

Each chess problem has been selected by a panel of judges and commented on by experts.

Besides that, many pages of indexes and definitions.

More info and sample pages at FideAlbum.com

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Message with thanks from Japan:

"Thank you for your support and contributions to Problem Paradise. 
The magazine celebrated its 100th and final print publication this month. 
Starting with the next issue, all issues will be published online at 
https://problem-paradise.com/.
 
As we celebrate this major milestone, I have decided to step down as its Endgame Editor after 22 years. 
It has been my great pleasure to see the excellent and wonderful studies sent in by composers from all over the world. 
One of my reasons for resigning is to focus on my work as Director of the National Chess Federation. 
Thank you for supporting Problem Paradise for so long.
 
My successor will be Mr. Ryo Shiomi. 
Ryo is a strong OTB player, former national champion, and a good chess friend of mine. 
Please send your new studies to Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken., and let me ask for your continued support.
 
Last but certainly not least, I would like to greatly appreciate Mr. Tadashi Wakashima,
the founder and editor-in-chief of this great magazine, who kindly helped and supported me for a long time.
 
Thank you all again!
 
Best wishes,
 
Hiroshi Manabe."
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In the  Ceskoslovensky Sach 2022 tournament the winner is: 

Marek Halski.

Second prize to Sergey Didukh.

3rd prize to Jan Sprenger.

Interesting comments by Martin Minski.

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A special edition of Finales Y Temas 126

 

This time ARVES, EG and this website get extra attemtion

and also a small interview with Peter Boll, the Webmaster.

In there also is a new task for composers to create.

Thanks to José Copié  !!

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A new Video by Zhukov, Alexander 1963 at YouTube: 

250 Chess Moves by Alexander Zhukov

Chess Extravaganza

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Some new articles were lately added to honor our Composers:

Umnov, Evgeny 1913-1989

Smit, Arjan 1956

Pallasz, Edward 1936-2019

Reddmann, Hauke 1961

Schiffmann, Israel 1903-1930

Burger, Robert 1931-2019

Wason, Peter 1924-2003

Preti, Jean-Louis 1798-1881

Prandstetter, Eduard 1948

Kubbel, Arvid 1889-1938

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The prize winners for the Chess Study Art - Ukraine 2022 tournament are:

1. Vladislav Tarasiuk,

2. Michael Pasman,

3. Jan Sprenger.

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Two new PDF files see Awards Files :

Prize winners in the 7 Chess Notes 2022 tournament:

1. Sergey Radchenko,

2. Volker Hergert and Martin Minski,

3 Pavel Arestov,

4. Viktor Zheltukhov and Sergei Osintsev,

5. Oleg Pervakov.

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Also magazine Variantim 88 with al lot of Endgame Studies like by Michael Pasman

and an interesting article by Gady Costeff about composer Simkhovich.

Also a lot of Original studies to be found.

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Happy new year 2023 to all chess art lovers !

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Good news:

Chief Editor of EG, Harold van der Heijden, has announced to issue new PDF files with olders EG-issues.

They will come available at this website soon.

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Sad news:

Dutch composer Van Breukelen, Gijs 1946-2022 

passed away last wednesday 21.12.2022.

At the website of chessclub Paul Keres an in memoriam in Dutch is written:

https://paulkeres.nl/?p=26902

Also at the website of HMC Den Bosch an in memoriam.

At ChessBase this nice article was published in 2018 about his famous study called the Tractor problem.

 

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The final award: Skovoroda 300 - 2022 is available, with a slight improvement, See Awards section.

Steffen Nielsen sent an improved version of his study, which is given the 5th prize to this study in the final award.

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For the German Schach-magazine ty 2020-2021,

the first prize winners are Martin Minski with Amatzia Avni.

Special prize for Worldchampion Steffen Nielsen.

Schach 2020-2021

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Interesting new book issued by Elk and Ruby 

about Chess-victims of the former Soviet Totalitarianism.

Book review: The Lubyanka Gambit

First published in Russian in 2004 and now available in English for the first time,

The Lubyanka Gambit is a classic work investigating the darkest side of chess history in the Soviet Union. 

It is the culmination of nearly two decades of research

by Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, historian and human rights campaigner Sergei Grodzensky,

whose own father was sent to the Gulag in Stalin’s times.

It describes the careers and life stories, based on archival documents and witness testimony, of Soviet chess composers,

players and famous amateurs who were repressed by the Soviet authorities, ending up either executed or sent to the Gulag.

Featured names include Lazar Zalkind, Arvid Kubbel, Mikhail Platov, Sergei Kaminer among many others.

The theoretical contribution to the history of composition is one key theme in this work.

The Lubyanka Gambit also looks in detail at the historical context of the purges of chess players a

nd describes how chess was played by prisoners in the Gulags and internal exile.

Perhaps the icing on the cake is provided by Grodzensky’s personal memories of the Soviet Union’s foremost Gulag writers

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (his schoolteacher) and Varlam Shalamov (his father’s close friend).

This book contains 72 full games and fragments analyzed by the participants, contemporaries,

the author and other leading players, as well as 145 computer-checked compositions.

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In the magazine tournament StrateGems 2022,

the first prize winner is Richard Becker,

2nd prize to Jan Timman,

3rd prize to Sergey Osintzev.

See the PDF report in the Awards Files

 

Task on the cover of the book, white plays and wins:

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Book written by Chessfriend Beasley, John 1940 

At this website it is for sale with this text:

The endgame study shows chess at its simplest, and yet at its most fascinating.

The board is wide open, every man has a role to play, and one or more moves are delightfully unexpected.

This book contains the cream of British endgame study composition.

It features a hundred studies from the thirteenth century to the present day,

ranging from elegant trifles to masterpieces in which subtlety follows subtlety.

Each study is expounded in simple terms, with multiple intermediate diagrams to give easy reading.

It will give pleasure to beginner and experienced player alike.

 

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More about this book in:

Book review: The Pawn Study Composer's Manual, Mikhail Zinar

New edition by Sergei Tkachenko.

 

Text from the back of the book:

 

"Have you ever thought about trying your hand at composing endgame studies?

Probably not, it always seemd far too difficult. But now, your chance to learn the tools is finally here!

Mikhail Zinar's composition manual, first published, first published in Ukraine in 1990 with a 100.000 print run that has long sold out

and now updated and revised by Sergei Tkachenko, revelas the secrets that will give you a head-start in composing chess poetry!

 

Dissecting over 400 examples, Zinar's manual begins by explaining the basic tactics of pawn studies: simplest maneuvres, roundabout way, feint, luring into check,

Grigoriev anti-check feint, anti-check retreat and king double threat (Eilazyan branch).

It then goes on to consider key study ideas, including beacons, winning a pawn, checkmate, stalemate, anti-stalemate,

underpromotions, studies with two or more phases, domination, anti-domination and logical studies.

Further sections of the book cover artistic requirements for endgame studies, pratical tips and a series of demanding tests that you may spend days, weeks or even months completing.

 

Careful study of this book will not turn you into an overnight prize-winning sensation, but following its recommendations and putting in hard work will place you firmly on the right path.

Today's leading Ukrainian studies composer Sergei Didukh told Sergei Tkachenko that he read Zinar's manual several times before he composed his first study."

More about Zinar, Mikhail 1951-2021

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The results of the  Ukraine 23rd Individual Champ 2019-2021 with 6 of the best studies.

The report in the PDF-file at the Awards Files page


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In the  Skovoroda 300 - 2022 tournament

(in rememberance to the Ukrainian humanist educator, traveling philosopher, poet and teacher,

born 300 years ago, on December 3, 1722, in the village of Chernukhy, in the Poltava Region)

1st prize winner is Jan Timman.

2nd prize for David Gurgenidze,

3rd prize to Michael Pasman,

4th prize for Igor Jarmonov.

(See PDF report (Ukranian language) in Awards Files)

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The winner of the Jenever bottle for the fast composing tournament Arves Jenever 14th 2022 is

Michael Pasman.

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Nine nice studies in the 6th Youth CCC 2022.

1st prize winner:  Ilija Serafimović 

2nd place for:  Ben Smolkin 

3rd place:  Dylan Schenker 

4th place:  Ural Khasanov 

5th: Taras Rudenko,  6th: Anirudh Daga 7th: Sergiienko Andrii  8th: Nikita Ushakov 9th: Andrew Vodinh-Ho

See also the PDF-report in Awards Files

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The UAPA 18th 2022 has 3 sections.

In thematic Section A the winner is Oleg Pervakov, 2nd prize to Michael Pasman,

3rd prize to Pavel Arestov, 4th prize to Mario Garcia.

 

In the free section B1 (wins) 1st prize also to Oleg Pervakov, 2nd prize to Jan Timman.

In the free section B2 (draws) 1st prize to David Gurgenidze, 2nd prize again to Michael Pasman 

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In the FRME 8th 2022 ty the prize winners are:

1st rpize to Mario Micaloni & Daniele Gatti (Italy)

2nd prize for Jan Rusinek (Poland),

3rd prize for Michael Pasman (Israel),

4th prize to Sergiy Didukh (Ukraine).

See the PDf in Awards Files

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In the this pdf file in Section-D you may find 14 Endgame studies in the report for the

21st Russian Team Championship for Composing.

On the picture of the winning team on the right: Pavel Arestov

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In the 4rd FRME TT 2022 tournament

the 1st prize winner is Luis Gonzalez.

2nd prize winner Michael Pasman.

See the complete report in  PDF in Awards Files

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Sad news from Armenia.

At 13-10-2022 Kasparyan, Sergey 1952-2022 passed away.

At the website of Selivanov an obituary in Russian language.

The translation to English is also available in the above article about him.

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With all the sad news which daily comes from Ukraine,

at least we have some nice art coming from it with the results in the:

Problemist Ukraine 2021

1st prize winner: Amatzia Avni and second prize to Oleg Pervakov.

Lets hope for peace as we as chess players live by: Gens Una Sumus.

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In the Awards Files is the pdf with the Moscow-2022 tournament report.

12 interesting studies with winner Oleg Pervakov.

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EG 230 is issued:

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Two studies awarded for the Slovakia Pravda magazine 2020-2021, (See section D. Studie)

both from the specialists Ľuboš Kekely and Michal Hlinka

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Chessbase India brings another interesting article in the series Chess Artistry Adventure 

with 7 studies.

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Interactively showing and solving Endgame Studies by Top Grandmasters becomes popular.

Here Anish Giri  and top Indian GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi are tested at Chessbase India.

Also Praggnanandhaa is asked to solve these difficult studies i.e. of Martin Minski, Jan Timman, Yochanan Afek and David Gurgenidze.

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Chessbase often shows a study of the month.

Here some links to them,

September 2022 with an article about Jan Sprenger;

August 2022 about Aliens and Alexander Kazantsev;

July 2022 about Malyutka's

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At page 9-10 of the Variantim magazine no. 87, Michael Pasman extensively reports and comments 5 Israeli studies.

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After the results of the WCCI 2019-21 there are some new titles for study composers:

FIDE International Master titles for: Amatzia Avni and Árpád Rusz

 FIDE Master titles for: Branislav Djurasevic, Luis Miguel Gonzalez and Jan Timman

Congratulations !!

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Great article from Satanick Mukhuty on Chessbase India for the Global Chess festival.

The same fantastic studies now in article to reread and replay.

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Suomen Tehtäväniekat has published its old catalogue of members.

About finnish composers https://www.tehtavaniekat.fi/index.php/matrikkeli/

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Chessbase India on Youtube with Judith Polgar about her Global Chessfestival and interesting Studies to be solved.

Excellent presentation by Judit Polgar and Sagar Shah for 1hour and 47 minutes.

With studies and stories about composers like Yochanan Afek, Martin Minski, Jan Timman and David Gurgenidze.

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Article in Spanish language at this Argentinian website, with studies composed by

Martin Minski with spectacular Queen sacrifices!

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Interesting and long Interview with

World Champion Steffen Nielsen 

at Chess.com

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 Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen

of Denmark is the new

FIDE World champion

in the section of Endgame studies composing !!

Slumstrup Nielsen, Steffen 1975

 

2nd place to former world champion Oleg Pervakov, Russia

3rd place for Serhiy Didukh, Ukraine

Use this PDF to see the complete Ranking list.

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Preliminary (anonymous) results for the 10th FIDE World cup are available !

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In the magazine tournament organized by the British Chess Problem Society The Problemist 2020-2021 

the first prize winner is: Gady Costeff

2nd prize for Amatzia Avni with Martin Minski,

3rd prize goes to Jan Timman,

4rd prize is for Petr Kiyakov with Pavel Arestov.

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The prize winners of the Polish Chess Federation 2021 tournament are:

1st prize Steffen Nielsen, Denmark
2nd prize Mikhail Gromov, Russia
3rd prize Andrzej Babiarz, Poland
4th prize David Gurgenidze & Martin Minski, Georgia and Germany
5th prize David Gurgenidze & Vazha Neidze, Georgia
6th prize Mario MICALONI & Marco Campioli, Italy
7th prize Vladislav Tarasiuk, Ukraine

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Great composers meet yesterday as friends at the home of Jan Timman in Arnhem (NL):

(from left to right: Jan Sprenger, Jan Timman, Martin Minski and Yochanan Afek).

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In the French Phenix 2021 Tournament, Judge Jan Sprenger only gave honorable mentions to

Sergey Osintsev, Michael Pasman and Itay Richardson and 3 recommendations.

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Preliminary results of the 7-Chess-Notes-2021 tournament are:

1st prize to L.M. Gonzalez,

2nd prize to Pavel Arestov

3rd prize to Martin Minski

4th prize to Vladislav Tarasiuk

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Interesting article about creating studies from games in the Macedonian Problemist

"Strip or massage?" by Steffen Nielsen

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The winners of the Shakhmatnaya-Kompositzia 2021 tournament (see PDF) are:

First prize for N. Rjabinin with K. Sumbatjan.

2nd and 3rd prize !! both for Jan Sprenger 

4th prize is for Pavel Arestov.

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In the Japanese Problem Paradise 2021 tournament there were two theme sections:

For the theme: "Up till 10 pieces".

The 1st/2nd prize are shared by Michael Pasman and Sergey Osintsev.

The 3rd prize is for the late Marco Campioli.

 

For the theme: "More than 10 pieces"

The 1st/2nd prize are shared by Peter Krug and  Michael Pasman.

3rd prize to Michael Hlinka with Lubos Kekely.

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The UAPA 17th 2022 tournament had 3 sections.

The winner for the theme sections ""Two Rooks and a minor piece (White or black) , against equivalent forces.

Slogan: Win or Draw (other pieces may be presented at the beginning)" is Michael Pasman.

For the Win section the winner is: Richard Becker. 2nd prize for Lubos Kekely with Michael Hlinka, 3rd prize to Micahel Pasman

For the Draw section the winner is Sergey Osintsev, 2nd prize for Peter Krug with Mario Garcia.

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Winners of the double MT tournament: Babich-115 and Olimpiev-85 MT 2022 are

Martin Minski with Jan Sprenger.

2nd prize for Michal Hlinka with Lubos Kekely and Pavel Arestov.

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Again some new pages about composers added:

Mendheim, Julius 1781-1836

Meyer, Heinrich 1839-1928

Murkisch, Godehard 1940

Wrobel, Marian 1907-1960

Sedlak, Ludek 1954

Khenkin, Viktor 1923-2010

Muradov, Muradkhan 1950

Pomogalov, Vasily 1935-2020

and personal birth/death data found about: Bahr, Walter 1905-1986

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Michael Pasman is the first prize winner in the Suomi Tehtäväniekka 2020–2021 tournament.

2nd prize to David Gurgenidze.

In the PDF you can find the Finnish comments as of page 63.

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EG readers possibly have read the article by Emil Vlasak who explains the latest developments about CQL.

He also mention the new tool CQLi.

You can check out the powerfull possibilities?

See also: Chess Query Language 6

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In magazine Variantim 86 there is an interesting article about Underpromotion by Gady Costeff.

And also the report of the Israeli Ring Tournament 2021 judged by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe with 8 nice studies .

The first prize winner is: Jan Rusinek.

2nd prize goes to Jan Sprenger.

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A flaw found for Bahr's pawn endgame rule by Francesco Santelli !

The flaw in Bahr's rule

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The popular book by Yochanan Afek now also translated into Turkish !

For Turkish readers available at: https://market.satrancokulu.com/zorlu-satranc-taktikleri

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Following its English, French, Spanish and Italian editions the book Extreme Chess Tactics
by Yochanan Afek is now out by the publishing house of the Russian Chess Federation!
https://ruchess.ru/books/y_afek_ekstremalnaya_shakhmatnaya_taktika/
The book is aimed at shaping and improving one's tactical skills by solving friendly classical endgame studies and combinations of world champions.
 
The book is available in English by Gambit:
http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/EXtreme_Chess_Tactics.html?fbclid=IwAR14PaPnnPdA9M7AggjlFaKgoeFN7i9Ond1_34SE2HXbtgWpnLoA1ITxPPM
 
The publishing house of the Russian Chess federation also realeased last year a 2-volume edition of the title Practical Chess Beauty by the same author
which had been originally released in English by Quality Chess and is a selection of the author's best studies and games.
https://ruchess.ru/books/?PAGEN_1=2

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The legendary Russian grandmaster Yuri Averbakh passed away in Moscow.

Yuri Averbakh was the world’s oldest living Grandmaster.

He became 3 months older than 100 years !

He was very important to Chess Endgame theory.

 

(Picture taken by Harold van der Heijden, 2002)

 

See more about him at ChessBase news.

and look at his Endgame studies: Averbakh, Yuri 1922-2022

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The study below is dedicated to the 70th birthday of Yochanan Afek.

"This study was inspired by an analysis of a recent game.

See:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr/15/chess-teenagers-top-reykjavik-while-english-hopes-fade-at-the-finish

(diagram 3811: Johann Hjartarson against Mats Andersen, Reykjavik 2022)

In the game a bishop promotion was possible. Ilham Aliev had the great idea to add a second underpromotion.

Yochanan is a very strong OTB player and a great composer. We hope he will like this game-like study! Happy birthday to our friend Yochanan!"

This picture of congress in Ostroda 2015, (Afek, Aliev, Minski).

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Book issued by

Gatti, Daniele 1987:

 

The book is named "Professione Problemista" (literally "Job: Problemist"),

subtitled "Avvicinamento alla composizione scacchistica" (literally "invite to chess composition")

and was published in March 2022 by the Italian publishing house Messaggerie Scacchistiche

(an historical one, and the only one in Italy specialized in chess books).
The book is written in Italian language.

It is his first book about chess (He wrote others but about other matters).

The purpose of the book is teaching composition to the total newbies, showing theory and practice

with progressive increase of difficulty and examples proposed (some "live composing" also included)

and added are also a collection of his best selfmates AND endgame studies (40 of each).

In endgame studies Daniele like bizarre ideas so there are many selected, together with more classical themes and configurations.

 

Buying the book is possible with these links:

Messaggerie Scacchistiche

or Amazon

Lees meer: Latest News

Tournament Awards

Please send new awards (if possible PDF and PGN) to 

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In the Vecherny Peterburg tournament (See PDF page 43 in Awards Files)

the winner is: A. Popov

and for 2/3rd place: A. Popov and  Pavel Arestov.

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The winners in magazine 64-Shakhmatnoye Obozrenye 2021 tournament,are:

1st prize N. Ryabinin with K. Sumbatyan,

2nd prize for Pavel Arestov with Peter Krug,

3rd prize Robin Swinkels with Jan Sprenger.

See for the full report (Russian language) in the PDF file in the Awards Files.

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In the Vratnica 2021 tournament, for the Win-section the winners are: 

Pavel Arestov with Peter Krug (Russia-Austria),

2nd:  Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine),

3rd:  Amatzia Avni with Yochanan Afek (Israel)

For the Draw section the winners are 1st/2nd : 

Sergey Osintsev (Russia) and Michael Pasman (Israel)

See for the full report the PDF file in the Awards Files.

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The provisional award for the 16th UAPA 2021 or Jose Copie 80 JT is available.

UAPA 16th 2021

There are 4 sections:

A. Studies up to 8 pieces A1 Win or A2. Draw.

B. Theme free B1 Win or B2 Draw.

For A1 the 5 price winners are: 1. Arpad Rusz, 2. Michael Pasman,

3. Oleg Pervakov, 4. Sergey Osintsev. 5. Michael Pasman;

For A2 the 6 price winners are: 1. Michael Pasman, 2. Richard Becker, 3. R.Becker with Mario Garcia,

4. Poul Rewitz, 5. Pavel Arestov, 6.David Gurgenidze;

For B1 the 5 price winners are: 1. Vladislav Tarasiuk, 2. Oleg Pervakov with Karem Subatyan,

3.Jan Timman, 4.Evgeny Kopylov, 5.Michael pasman;

For B2 the 6 price winners are: 1/2 Peter Krug 1/2 Sergey Osintsev, 3.Michael Pasman,

4.I Jarmonov with Vladislav Tarasiuk, 5.Pavel Arestov, 6.Marc Gelly.

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The magazine Pat a Mat 2020-2021 tournament is won by Amatzia Avni,

Second prize for Martin Minski 

Third prize for the duo: Michael Hlinka with Lubos Kekely.

Pat a Mat 2021

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Winner of the Strategems 2021 tournament are the duo David Gurgenidze with Martin Minski,

Second prize for Franjo Vrabec.

See Awards Files

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The winner of the Jana Lercha MT or

Ceskoslovensky Sach 2021 tournament is:

Martin Minski,

2nd and 3rd prize for to two co-productions:

PolasekJaroslav with Vlasak,Emil and with Navara,David

Krug, Peter with Garcia,Mario

4th prize to Michael Pasman.

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For the memorial tournament of the birthday of Henri Rinck 150 there were two sections.

In the Free Theme section A the winners are: 

1st prize: Amatzia Avni with Yochanan Afek.

2nd prize for: Oleg Pervakov wth Karen Sumbatyan

3rd prize to: Yuri Bazlov.

Henri Rinck 150 MT 2020 A

In Section B: "Studies after compositions of Rinck, Henri 1870-1952 "

the prize winners are:

Daniel Keith with Pavel Arestov

Henri Rinck 150 MT 2020 B

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For now the prelimanary results of the Chessstar 2021 tournament are available in the PDF

Winner Michael Pasman,

2nd prize to Steffen Nielsen and

3rd prize for Lubos Kekely with Michal Hlinka.

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In the b-section the winner is Igor Jarinmonov,

2nd prize for Rainer Buhmann with Martin Minski

3rd prize for Luis Miguel González and Vidadi Zamanov

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In the c-section some nice studies as well.

The notation study of Kuzmichev is not properly done in the pdf

(Should be: 1.e7! (1.Kd7? Rf6! 2.e7 Rxd6+! 3.Kc8 Rc6+! 4.Kd7 Rc7+!)  

1…Ke6! (1… Kxd6 - stalemate ) 2.d7 Rh4 3.d8N+! 

a) 3…Bxd8 4.edN+!draw, 

b)3…Kd6 4.Sb7+! (4.Sf7+? Kc7! 5.Sg5 Bc3! 6.Kf7 Rf4+! 7.Ke6 Rf6+!)

4…Ke6 5.Sd8+! Kf6 6.Sc6! (6.Kd7? Rd4+! 7.Kc8 Rc4+! 8.Kb7 Rc7+! 9.Ka6 K*e7!) 6… Rh5 7.Sxa5! Rxa5 8.Kf8! Rh5 

9.e8N+! draw – echo-chameleon transformation into a knight!)

Also in the PDF a d-section with 5 nice Maljutka's !

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The (late) result of Sachova Skladba 2015-2016 tournament available.

Winner L. Salai, 2nd prize to J.Polasek with A. Fica, 3rd prize to Vladislav Tarasiuk.

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In the Israeli Variantim 85 magazine interesting study articles by

Amatzia Avni, Gady Costeff and Michael Pasman

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The Die Schwalbe 2019-2020 tournament is won by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen.

He also won the 2nd prize !

3rd prize to Gunter Sonntag.

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Amatzia Avni introduces his article in Chess Magazine issue Jan 2022 with 3 studies.

One Good Idea is Enough

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For the Jan Timman 70 Jubilee tournament

the first 5 prize winners are:

1. Michael Pasman

2. Yuri Bazlov

3. Steffen Nielsen

4. Geir Ostmoe

5. Pavel Arestov

Timman 70 JT

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The Moscow 2021 is won by Michael Pasman. 

2nd prize for Pavel Arestov with Steffen Nielsen,

3rd prtize goes to Martin Minski and

4th prize to Jan Sprenger.

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David Gurgenidze and Martin Minski win the 1st prize of the FRME 7th Moroccon 2021

2nd prize to Sergei Osintsev, 3rd prize to Pavel Arestov and Daniel Keith

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For the Ukraine 20th Championship 2021 tournament there was this theme set:

After White's move, a position arises where three white pieces (rooks, bishops or knights) are attacked by one or more black pieces.

Attacked piece might be defended when it is threatened by a pawn.

The winners are:

1st place - Vladislav Tarasiuk

2nd place - Eduard Eilazyan

3rd place - Andrii Sergiienko, Vladislav Tarasiuk, Vladimir Samilo (joint)

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Martin Minski with Michael Roxlau enjoy a drink from the Jenever bottle, which Martin did win in the 13th Arves Jenever contest.

(The position on the Chessboard is of there co-study, winning the 7th prize in the Sergey Zakharov MT 2021)

 Martin Minski wins the prize for the  Arves Jenever 13th 2021

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Winners of the Magazine Zadachy i Etyudy 2020 tournament are

SN.Tkachenko with K.Shevchenko

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In the Springaren 2019-2020 tournament

the first prize winner is Michael Pasman.

2nd prize for Lubos Kekely and Michal Hlinka and

3rd prize goes to Amatzia Avni and Vladislav Tarasiuk.

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Jan Sprenger wins the first prize for the Magyar Sakkvilag 2021 tournament !

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Winner of the Strategems 2021 tournament are the duo David Gurgenidze with Martin Minski,

Second prize for Franjo Vrabec.

See Awards Files

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Read More About Awards

 Tournament Calendar.

On this page a calendar of all known Endgame study tournaments which are running with information:

Also a very good page to check tournament announcements is on UAPA: Informal Tournaments, Formal Tournaments.

 

Latest update on 1-3-2023.


Polish Chess Federation 2023 Tourney

Polish Chess Federation announces an informal international composing tourney in the following sections:
• twomovers [#2] – judge Bogusz Piliczewski
• threemovers [#3] – judge Stefan Parzuch
• selfmates in 2 moves [s#2] – judge Marcin Banaszek
• selfmates in 3 – 6 moves [s#3-6] – judge Eugeniusz Iwanow
• helpmates in 2 moves [h#2] – judge Walerij Kopyl
• endgames [eg] – judge Jan Rusinek
There are 3 prizes in each section.
Problems are published up to date on the Polish Chess Federation site.
Closing date: December 1st 2023.
Please send problems on diagrams or in notation with the complete solution to:

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See also this article: Creating studies from games, Steffen Nielsen


JT75 MARIO G. GARCIA 2023

The Argentinian´s Union of Problemists of Chess announces the tournament of composition JT75 Mario Guido García

Studies- Sections:

A) Theme free in two sections :

A.1.) Win and

A.2.) Draw –

B) Thematic: Miniature ( 6 to 7 pieces) –

B.1. Studies Win –

B.2.) Studies Draw; Judge : Mario G. García

– Problems – Sections : 2# – 3# – N# – (#4 to #6 ) and (#7 to more moves)

– If the number of miniatures are significant, they will be evaluated in a special section

- Judge : Mario G. García

– Will be awarded:

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

- The provisional award , will be available in the website of the UAPA http://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar/ , and will be sent to all participants by e-mail.

Not more than three studies or problems per composer for each subsection

– Send to director Sebastián Palomo– <Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.;

Closing date: 30th june 2023


 

 

 TOURNEY MAGAZINE “PHENIX” 2023

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 2023

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until october 31 2023.

Judge: Ľuboš Kekely (Slovakia)


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.


5th TT FRME, 2023
The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 5th TT FREM, in  6 sections.

See: 5 th TT FRME, 2023 


ChessStar.com announces an annual composing contest in the following sections: #2, #3, #N, Etudes, H# , S#.

– ChessStar-2023 can only be entered by registered users Standard.
Entries are accepted (unlimited) from January 1 to December 31, 2023.
Prizes, honorary and commendable reviews have been established.
Preliminary results will be published on the website on January 31, 2024.

– Chief judge for all sections: Ferhat Karmil (Turkiye)

-Tournament Director Elmar Abdullaev Karmil (Azerbaijan)


CESKOSLOVENSKY SHACH – 2023 – JT 70 Stanislav Nosek

The contest will include all original studies published in the journal during 2023.

Send your originals on any topic (maximum 6 by one author) before November 20, 2023 to the address of Michal Hlinka (Slovakia): Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.,

Judge : Stanislav Nosek (Rep.Checa).

More detailed analyzes and the pgn file can be found in the studies section on our website www.sach.cz.

 


UAPA 20th jubilee tournament.

Section A : Thematic:

In study (win or draw) White or Black piece (Bishop,Knight, Rook or Queen) goes into a corner under at least one capture.

The piece should not be protected and goes to the corner without taking enemy piece.

Promotion of pawn is not theme -

EXAMPLE

-Judge: Oleg Pervakov (Russia)

Section B : Theme free
B.1.) Win   – Judge : Jan Timman (Netherlands)
B.2.) Draw – Judge : Jan Rusinek (Poland)


Entries : not more than three per composer (in each section)

– Send studies to: Sebastian Palomo
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– All selected original
Studies will be posted periodically on the UAPA website: http://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar/

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

- The provisional
award will be issued in July 2023, will be available in the same website and will be sent to all participants
by e-mail.

– Closing date 30.04.2023 


 Variantim 2023

Judge: Jan Sprenger
 
Closing date: November 15 2023
 
Award: April 2024

Nikolay Griva 70 JT

Five piece study tournament on the occasion of Nikolay Griva‘s 70th birthday


Griva collects studies and endgames with at most five pieces since 1970 using Chess Assistant.

His collection has more than 8700 positions.

He would like to see studies inspired by practical play.


Judges: R. Staudte & M. Schlosser (Germany)

Closing date: 10th Feb. 2023

The judges get the entries anonymously.

Book prizes are donated by Griva.

The participants get the award by email.

Send your entries to: Olaf Jenkner, Beckerstraße 20c, D-09120 Chemnitz (Germany)

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Minski and Nielsen 100 JT

  

To celebrate their combined 100th birthday and promote peaceful cooperation among composers,

Martin Minski and Steffen Nielsen arrange a formal tournament for joint studies.

 

Only joint compositions are allowed!

Composers may submit as many studies as they like but not more than 1 study with the same co-author.

 

Theme: Free

Deadline: December 31st, 2022

Award: Before April 1st, 2023
Judges: Martin Minski and Steffen Nielsen

Money prizes: 1st place: 150 euros, 2nd place: 100 euros, 3rd place: 50 euros


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SINFONIE SCACCHISTICHE 2023


Informal tournament

 

–  Judge : Daniele Gatti

 

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Closing date 30.09.2023 ?


PAT A MAT Magazine has pleasure in announcing international tourneys for

See also: 

ChessStar.com


a) orthodox twomovers 2022: Bogusz Piliczewski, Poland),
b) threemovers 2022-2023 (judge not yet specified),
c) moremovers 2022-2023 (judge not yet specified),
d) studies 2022-2023 :Yochanan Afek (Israel/Netherlands),
e) helpmates 2022 (judge Béla Majoros, Hungary),
f) selfmates and reflexmates 2022- 2023 (judge not yet specified),
g) fairies 2022 (judge not yet specified).

Entries should be sent to the editors of the sections (see below) or to Ladislav Packa as soon as possible but before 15th October of the year.

Entries should be sent to the editors of the sections (see below) or to Ladislav Packa as soon as possible but before 15th October of the year.

Chief editor and h#: Ladislav Packa, Agátová 2504/10, SK-924 00 Galanta, e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.
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#3: Juraj Šťastný, M. M. Hodžu 2417/11, SK-960 01 Zvolen, e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.
#n and fairy: Juraj Lörinc, Pažítková 5, SK-821 01 Bratislava 2, e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.
s#: Jozef Havran, Kukučínova 15, SK-927 01 Šaľa, e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.;
+/=: Ľuboš Kekely, SK-023 32 Snežnica 128, e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.


MAGAZINE  «64» – 2023

Informal international composing tourney in following sections: # 2, # 3, #n judge: A. Kuzovkov,

studies judge : A. Stavrietsky 
Section winners are awarded a yearly subscription to a magazine

- Entries should be sent to
Director – A. Kuzovkov– e-mail Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

Closing date: 01.11.2023 

 


For the 70th birthday of the famous composer
 
Yochanan Afek

Yochanan (left) with David Gurgenidze (right)
 
Afek, Yochanan 1952
 
 
Judge: Árpád Rusz
 
3 prizes: $300 $200 $100 (limit one per composer)
3 book prizes for composers under 20 (limit one per composer)
Limit 3 entries per composer.

All studies will be published in Variantim during 2022 in order received.

Last date for entries: October 31, 2022.

Award date: April 2023

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The  Problemistic  Curierul 2021- 2022

Entries should be sent to :

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Sections:

#2 Judge Viktor Sizonenko 

#3-n Judge ?; H#2 Judge ?

H#3-n Judge?;

Selfmates Judge Anatoly Stepochkin 

Endgamestudies Judge Sergey Osintsev (Russia)

Helpselfmate Judges Zoltán Laborczi & Gábor Tar

Series-Movers and Stalemates Judge Karol Mlynka

Retros and Proof Games Judge Kostas Prentos. 

 

The magazine  http://e4e5magazine.eu/ 

–  Look  Publications 2021 (all  genres )

 
 

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 : Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken. 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.


 
    

 The Problemist composing tourney 2023 by the British Problem Society

The Problemist composing tourney 2023
 

Judge: Árpád Rusz

Entries to the editor Yochanan Afek ( preferably in a PGN file and the earlier the better) by e-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

 
 
 
 

DIE SCHWALBE 2021- 2022

The German chess problem society’s magazine «Die Schwalbe»  informal tourney for original studies,
Please send your originals per e-mail to Michael Roxlau: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.
Judge: Yochanan Afek  (Israel)

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.


MAGYAR SAKKVILAG 2023

Please, send your original work in PGN format.

Tournament director Peter Gyarmati to the e-mail address of the study : E-Mail Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken. 

– Judge: Michal Hlinka (Slovakia)

– Deadline: 20th November 2023.

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

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


CESKOSLOVENSKY SHACH – 2023 –  JT 70 Stanislav Nosek

The contest will include all original studies published in the journal during 2023.

Send your originals on any topic (maximum 6 by one author) before November 20, 2023 to the address of Michal Hlinka (Slovakia): Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.,

Judge : Stanislav Nosek (Rep.Checa).

More detailed analyzes and the pgn file can be found in the studies section on our website www.sach.cz.


PROBLEM PARADISE (JAPAN) 2023

Studies, informal tourney, no set theme

– Judge: Mario G. García (Argentina)


Entries should be sent to Director : Ryo Shiomi,  E-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

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

- The award will be sent to participants by e-mail. –Closing date: 31th October 2023


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: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.,

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.

 

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 – Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

– Closing date: september 30th 2022/23

 


 PROBLEMBLAD 2023 -2024

Studies,

Judge: Gady Costeff (Israel/USA)

Entries in .pgn format are appreciated.

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

Send to : Marcel van Herck Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

 

Sachova Skladba 2022

Studies, no set theme

– Judge : Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine)

More info at: http://problem64.beda.cz/ss/rozhodci.htm

- Send studies to: Jiri Jelinek or Jaroslav Polasek Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.  or  Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.


VRATNICA 64- 2022-2023

Studies, no set theme – Judge: Mario G. García (Argentina)

–Entries should be sent to: Bosko Miloseski, E-mail: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

–Clarifications: If the number of entries in the year 2022 is 15 or more studies, the contest closes and the judge issues the verdict.

Then in 2023, a similar rule applies. Prizes, honorable mentions, commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

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

Closing date: 15th October of the year 2022 or 2023

 

DIE SCHWALBE 2021- 2022

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

Please send your originals per e-mail to Michael Roxlau: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

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- 2023


Studies, no set theme – Judge:Luis Miguel González (Spain)

- The studies will be published as originals in the magazine Shakmatnaya Kompozicia during 2023.

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

-Send to S. Osintsev- – Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.


 TEHTÄVÄNIEKKA 2022

Finnish Chess Problem Society's magazine Tehtäväniekka 2022

Original studies for an informal tourney

The composer will receive a PDF file of the publication issue and award.

A sample issue (1/2020) can be downloaded via https://www.tehtavaniekat.fi/index.php/tehtavaniekka/

Studies: No set theme.

Judge: 2022: Vladislav Tarasiuk

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The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 9th Composing Tourney

Twomovers (#2) Judge: Bogusz Piliczewski(Poland)
Send to tournament director: Mustapha Bakani (Marocco) E-mail:Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.


Threemovers (#3) Judge: Marcin Banaszek (Germany)
Moremovers (#N) Judge: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)

Studies (+;=) Judge: Luis Miguel González (Spain)

Selfmates (S#) Judge: Sergey Borodavkin (Ukraine)

Send to tournament director:Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan) E-mail:Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.


Helpmates H#2 Judge: Valery Gurov(Russia)
Helpmates H#2.5-3 Judge: Viktor Sizonenko (Ukraine)
Helpmates H#3.5-N Judge: Kjell Widlert (Sweden)
Send to tournament director: Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco)


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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. 2023. The award – 2023
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: frme.fr.nf


 
INTERNET TOURNAMENT CHESS MAGAZINE CHESSSTAR – 2022
 
– Works are accepted (no more than 3 from the author) from January 1 to December 1, 2022.
Prizes, honorary and commendable reviews have been established.
Preliminary results will be published on the website and sent to all subscribers on December 30, 2022.
 
Judges for 2022 :
# 2- Vasily Dyachuk (Ukraine) 
# 3- Elmar Abdullaev (Azerbayan)
# N- Сергей Абраменко– (Russia)
 
– Studies  Richard Becker (USA)
 
- H# Valery Barsukov (Russia)
-S#- .Yuri Gordian (Ukraine)

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

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