Quartz 39, February 2014, is online at:
“Women chess composers” by Diyan Kostadinov
A post by Diyan Kostadinov “Woman Chess Composers” dedicated to the International Women’s Day was so nice surprise! Thank you very much, Diyan!
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Popeye 4.65 released!
Thomas Maeder has announced the new release of Popeye – see citation from MatPlus, 9-Feb-2014:
The Popeye team is happy to announce Popeye 4.65, available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess/files/Popeye/4.65/. Many bugs have been fixed, and some new fairy conditions are supported. For details, see the Release notes displayed at the bottom of the download page. ? read more…
Thanks a lot to Thomas and to all Popeye team!!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
14th of February, 2014
Happy Valentine’s Day! Wishing love, happiness and a very nice day to all of you! – Julia
Wolfgang Dittmann (14-06-1933 – 05-02-2014)
Wolfgang Dittmann (14-06-1933 – 05-02-2014)
German composer and International Master, the grand old man of retro-composition, Wolfgang Dittmann, deceased on the 5th of February in Berlin suffering from pneumonia.
Wolfgang Dittmann had composed in his life direct mates and selfmates mainly in the style of the New-German school. In the period 1970 – 1990 he was one of the worldwide leading experts in the field of orthodox retro-problems. After a break of about 12 years (for family reasons) in 2002 he found his way back to chess composition. The Anticirce Proca Defensive Retractor became then Wolfgang’s speciality and he has enriched the problem world with many masterpieces of this kind. Wolfgang’s book “Der Blick zurück” (2006) is a reference work for retrograde analysis theory and practice.
WFCC has acknowledged Wolfgang’s merits by granting the titles International Master and International Judge for Chess Composition. (information from Klaus Wenda and http://chesscomposers.blogspot.com/)
Thomas Brand, a close friend of Wolfgang, has written an obituary on his blog.
JF website expresses deep condolences to Wolfgang’s family, relatives, friends.
6th Sant’Ambrogio Chess Problems Meeting
Associazione Problemistica Italiana
PRESENTS THE BULLETIN
of traditional Italian meeting which took place in Milan last December
6th Sant’Ambrogio Chess Problems Meeting!
ChessComposer app by KoBulChess.com!
(23.11.2013) The KoBulChess team is proud to announce the first ever Chess composition app for smartphones – the ChessComposer! Now you can compose EVERYWHERE and EVERYTIME directly on your phone with no need of any other chess set anymore!
Tragedy in Riga, November,21st
23.11, 9pm: 54 people had died after the roof of a supermarket “Maxima” collapsed in Latvian capital, Riga. The roof smashed down on customers during peak shopping hours around 6:00 pm on Thursday in the Riga suburb of Zolitude. Search teams have stopped working this evening, after the last remaining section of the roof caved in. No more hope for any alive people to be found.. The tragedy shocked the Baltic states. Latvian government has declared three days of mourning starting on Saturday and planning to hold a moment of silence on Monday.
Julia’sFairies website expresses its deepest condolences to the victims of the tragic accident, their families and friends.
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)
I’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)
56th WCCC & 37th WCSC in Batumi!
The 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!