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Phenix_logoMémorial Denis Blondel

In order to honour the memory of Denis Blondel, deceased on 21th June 2012, Phénix organizes a composing tourney in two sections :
Section A) : all types of problems with only one type of fairy piece, which will be either the Rose or Locust.

Section B) : all types of problems with one or two types of fairy pieces, which will be the Rose and Locust.

See full announcement in English and in French!

 

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Orbit announces 2014 informal tourney for Unorthodox help-play original problems.
Requested are h# <=4, h= <=4, ser-h# <=15 ‘almost-orthodox’ problems, composed using chessboard rather than using computer, showing effects enabled by the use of a limited set of fairy elements.
The judge is Klaus Wenda.
Send to Pierre Tritten‘s Orbit address : pt.orbit@yahoo.fr

 

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JUGEMENT des #2 de PROBLEMISTE 2012
Par Claude WIEDENHOFF

Online, 2012’s judgements are (will be) at :
http://www.problemiste.fr/#/2012/4200366

Juges/Judges : 2013

#3,  #n : Antonio Garofalo (ITA) ♦ h#2, h#n : Thomas Maeder (CHE) ♦ s#,  Féériques : Diyan Kostadinov (BGR)

Please send your originals to Alain Biénabe  :   admin (AT) problemiste.com 

 

variatim-logoSee HERE (in English and Russian) the information about
Regular tournaments by Variantim and also

Alex Ettinger 90 Memorial Tourney

The Israel Chess Composition Society is announcing a composition tourney to commemorate the 90’s birthday of Alex Ettinger (1923-2005). Alex, born in Frankfurt, Germany, immigrated to Israel in 1933 and was a dedicated member of our society. Required are fairy-miniatures with free theme. All types of problems are accepted but with at least one fairy condition and one fairy piece. Judge: Michael Grushko. Please send entries to the director, Paz Einat (paz@pazeinat.com; 45a Moshe Levi St. Nes Ziona, 74207, Israel). Closing date: 30.11.2013

 

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Updates as of the 1st-3rd of October, 2013:

  • (03.10) No.385 – Pierre Tritten – Nice cyclic problem, Take & Make effect in 3 half-moves! 
  • (02.10) The final and modified award of the Sabra tourney (“Due to the identification of a full anticipation to the 1st prize that problem was removed from the award.”) is uploaded and added to the Tourneys→Awards section as some other Awards from Batumi.
  • (01.10) No.384 – Ralf Krätschmer – A very nice reciprocal anti-batteries! Warm welcome to Ralf !

All problems published during September-December, 2013, you can found in the section Julia’sFairies-2013(III).
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber. 

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You are welcome to download the new issue of Problemas, the bulletin of the Spanish Society of Chess Problemists (SEPA), at the Society’s web page:http://sepa64.blogspot.com.es/p/revista-problemas-nueva-epoca.html

The October 2013 issue consists of 24 pages and includes 17 articles with a total of 89 diagrams. We hope you’ll find it interesting! If you need further information feel free to get in touch with me. (Joaquim Crusats)


julia-redI’d like to comment this issue: it has a special meaning for me as it contains the first article I’ve written myself: “The Chameleon – a colorful piece to start off with” (pages 80-81). I’m thankful to Joaquim for the invitation to write it and I’m very grateful to Geoff Foster who always helps me with generic viagra england English correction! (Julia)

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Updates as of 17th-29th of September, 2013:

  • (29.09) No.382, 383 – Kostěj Šoulivý – Two nonstandard four-men! Author considers them as independent problems. Warm welcome to Kostěj !
  • (28.09) No.381 – Karol Mlynka –  А four-men with surprising stalemates!
  • (27.09) No.379,380 – Václav Kotěšovec – Two excellent Miniatures in elegant style!
  • (26.09) No.378 – Paul Rãican –  A complicated for solving problem with interesting addition of  material on the board applying Sentinels condition!
  • (17.09) No.377 – Igor Kochulov – Interesting Duplex-HS#3 with Zilahi theme!

All problems published during September-December, 2013, you can found in the section Julia’sFairies-2013(III).
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber. 

56th WCCC & 37th WCSC in Batumi!

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56WCCC-logoThe 56th WCCC & 37th WCSC in Batumi
22nd-28th of September, 2013!

(29.09) Two new Awards available: Award 1° Azemmour and 4th Bulgarian Wine Tourney 2013 ! Congratulations to the winners and participants!

(28.09) I don’t see any official announcement yet, but have heard that the next Congress will take place in BERN, Switzerland, in the end of August 2014. 

(27.09) Composing tourneys – almost nothing is published… I have only  11th Tzuika Award and VODKA TOURNEY – 2013 is published on A.Selivanov’s website.

(27.09) Problems & Solutions are added for Open Solving. WCSC results are published at WFCC website! Congratulations to the World Champion – Piotr Murdzia! To the team’s Champion –  Poland! And to all other medal winners and participants!!

(25.09) For now I know just two things about the Congress:  it was raining in Batumi the first days; and the results of Open Solving Tournament Batumi, 23rd September 2013, are just published at WFCC website! Congratulations to the winners – Ofer Comay and Arno Zude! And congratulations to all participants!

I wish to all participants of the meeting to have a great time in Georgia! Quick composing competition is waiting for you already tonight, and an Open solving competition the next morning will continue to keep you up! I wish a good luck to composers and solvers in these first competitions, I admire the ability of solvers to go through a very hard two days of WCSC on 24th-25th of September, I wish to all of us to be successful in the composing competitions announced for the 56th WCCC! 

I’d like to invite the participants of the Congress to send your comments and maybe some photos of the events – I’d be happy to publish them here!

Reminder – JF Marine TT

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marine-tt-announcement-enDear Friends,

Let me remind you that just two weeks are left to submit your problems to  Julia’s Fairies Marine TT ! 

For more information about Marine pieces read also the articles by IGM Petko A. Petkov “Do you know the Marine Pieces?” – Part I, Part II, Part III.

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Judge: IGM Petko A. Petkov – International Judge of FIDE.

Please send your problems till 24:00 September, 30th, 2013 by e-mail only to Julia, julia@juliasfairies.com

The Award will be published on Julia’s Fairies website before the end of 2013. And I’ll try to send Prizes to the Prize Winners and Diplomas to the authors of awarded problems before Christmas! Good luck to everybody!

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Updates as of 16th of September, 2013:

  • (16.09) No.376 – Petko A. Petkov  – My lovely “horses” actively play in this wonderful birthday gift! I’m very touched and grateful to Petko!
  • (16.09) No.375 – Julia Vysotska – One and the same square is touched in each half-move! Looks like a toy, but also has a rich content not easy to comment. Fortunately finished on the night before my birthday!

All problems published during September-December, 2013, you can found in the section Julia’sFairies-2013(III).
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber. 

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Updates as of the 7-12th of September, 2013:

  • (12.09) No.374 – Neal Turner – A very seldom fairy combination – SAT with Royal Grasshoppers – in s#! Welcome to Neal on Julia’s Fairies !!
  • (11.09) Author’s correction to solution and also a comment is added to No.372! 
  • (11.09) No.373 – Julia Vysotska – Parrying double check to the black King with the one black piece which simultaneously gives mate to the white King. The idea was inspired by the theme of Juraj Lörinc 40 JT, but in the opposite to it, my black piece is not pinned and can parry double check.
  • (10.09) No.372 – James Quah – 4-fold Djurasevic theme! Warm welcome to James!
  • (07.09) No.371 – Geoff Foster – An aristocratic octet with three nice solutions! Author writes that this problem was inspired by No.359 and No.359.1. 

All problems published during September-December, 2013, you can found in the section Julia’sFairies-2013(III).
The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(III) – Eric Huber.