Dear Friends,
Don’t miss the tournament Zabunov-85MT 2013 organized by KoBulChess.com website! It’s a memorial tourney on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the famous Bulgarian chess composer of the recent past FM Vladimir Zabunov (1928-1997).
The judge of the tourney is GM Petko A. Petkov (Bulgaria).
Send problems to Diyan Kostadinov by email: dkostadinov@abv.bg
Deadline: 15.11.2013. → See the whole announcement at KoBulChess.com website!
Mémorial 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. |
JUGEMENT des #2 de PROBLEMISTE 2012
Par Claude WIEDENHOFF
Online, 2012’s judgements are (will be) at :
http://www.problemiste.fr/#/
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
See 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
The Italian Problemist Association (API) organizes
The 4th Mini-Tour called NEUTRAL PIECES
Will be admitted any type of problems from 2 to 6 moves. Every problems must to have one or more neutral piece(s) in initial position. (See original announcement in Italian/English in PDF here!)
More solutions and twins are allowed, but not zero-position and duplex. It’s allowed also only one fairy condition. Problems must be C+, please point out the software used. Sent to this address: valerio.agostini@gmail.com
Sinfonie Scacchistiche with the problems (and award) published will be sent to all participants. Deadline: August 31, 2014.
Reminder! The last days to submit your problems to the
3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing 2013
The International Chess Federation (FIDE), within the framework of its “Chess Composition” special project, is organising the 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing for 2013 in eight sections.
The tournament is coordinated with the WFCC Presidium and is a part of the joint efforts by FIDE and WFCC for the popularization and development of chess composition worldwide. →Read more…
The closing date is September 1st, 2013.
Orbit 1st Fairy TT for Alphabetic Chess Help-play problems
One month left before closing! Requested are helpmates or series-helpmates in any number of moves, no zero-position, no fairy pieces, optionally one of the conditions Circe, Madrasi or PWC may be used in addition to ABC.
Problems must be computer-tested by Popeye or WinChloe.
The judge is Michael McDowell, problems are to be sent to Pierre Tritten’s Orbit address: pt.orbit@yahoo.fr until 30/09/13.
Dear Friends,
I hope that all of you had a beautiful summer! In some countries there’s still pretty warm, in others becoming colder… But September is coming in 5 days everywhere!
I’d like to remind you that the second part of informal tourney Julia’s Fairies-2013 (judge: Diyan Kostadinov) is over on the 31st of August. If you’d like to participate in this part – please send your problems by the 30th of August preferably, so I’d have some time to publish them.
Also, September is the last month for submitting your problems to Julia’s Fairies Marine TT ! I know there’re many other tournaments now, plus WCCC. I wish you luck in all of them!!! And still I believe you’ll find some time for the Marines as well! Thanks a lot to the active participants! –Julia
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF 
The Macedonian Problemist announces its informal tourneys for 2013 in the following sections:
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Send to: Zoran Gavrilovski, p. fah 137, MK-1001 Skopje, Macedonia; e-mail: mprobl@yahoo.com
ŽIVKO JANEVSKI – 60 JT 2013
The Macedonian Problemist announces a formal jubilee tourney for h#2s to mark the 60th birthday of its regular contributor Živko Janevski (born on 4 August 1953), Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess Compositions, International Judge of the FIDE for Chess Compositions, the leading Macedonian problemist in the last several decades and one of the world’s best and most successful composers (4th on the total FIDE Album points list up to the 2004-2006 Album). ?Read more… (click to show/hide)
THE MACEDONIAN PROBLEMIST – THE LEAGUE (TMP – TL) 2013: ANNOUNCEMENT
Composers are invited to submit their originals (free themes) for TMP – tL 2013 in four sections – #2 (judge: Juraj Brabec), #3 (Zlatko Mihajloski), h#2-3 (judge: Nikola Stolev) and s#2-6 (judge: Živko Janevski). The awards will be published in 2013.
Please send original problems to: Zoran Gavrilovski, P. fah 137, Skopje MK-1001, Macedonia, mprobl@yahoo.com by 1.9.2013.
Announcement of the 72nd feenschach TT
Required are series help-selfmate move-length records with 5-24 (or more) units (legal position and no promoted force). Series help-selfmates exceeding the current overall length record of 196 moves with promoted force (legal position) are also welcome! Closing date is December 31st 2013. Entries should be sent to the tournament director Thomas Brand, preferably via email. All entries that are length records for the different numbers of total normal force will be published in one of the first feenschach 2014 issues. Books or brochures prizes are offered as a reward to all tournament participants who send at least one actual length record if the total number of such records from all tournament participants is equal or exceeds the total number of records submitted by Arno Tüngler!
See full announcement with examples at http://www.feenschach.de/downloads/f72TT.pdf !
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See composing tourneys already posted to the official website for the 56th WCCC & 37th WCSC in Batumi! |
56th WORLD CONGRESS OF CHESS COMPOSITION
Batumi, Georgia September 21-28, 2013
11th Romanian Tzuica Tourney
Judges: Vlaicu Crişan & Eric Huber (Romania)
Theme:
Help-selfmates (hs#n) or help-selfstalemates (hs=n) with at least two switchbacks in each phase and at least two phases.
See Definitions and Examples in original PDF announcement!
Prizes are bottles of Tzuica (The tourney is open worldwide, however the prizes for congress participants only).
Entries to Eric Huber by e-mail at hubereric@yahoo.fr until September 22nd, or during Congress to the Romanian delegate Dinu-Ioan Nicula until Wednesday, September 25th, 9 p.m.
