AWARD OF THE
‘SEETHARAMAN-64 JUBILEE TOURNEY’
for Superguards PROBLEMS
I received 50 problems from C.G.S.Narayanan in anonymous diagrams. It was nice to get so many entries though the Superguards condition was programmed only in Winchloe. It is gratifying to know that so many leading composers liked the new fairy condition and that 17 of them (from 13 countries) participated in the tourney.
Many correspondents helped and encouraged me with valuable inputs before I publicized the new Fairy condition ‘Superguards’. Apart from my Indian colleagues, special mention should be made of C.J.Feather, J.M.Rice (who suggested the name Superguards), Kevin Begley, Diyan Kostadinov, Petko A.Petkov, Christian Poisson & Julia Vysotska. I thank all the participants especially Mr.Jacques Rotenberg (20 entries!) and the Tourney Director. Congratulations to the award winners. Here is myaward which will be final after 15 days. ?See the Award!
Diyan correctly points out that my comment on his problem #2, First comment, is wide off the mark ! WPb7 cant subsitute the WSa7 as the diagonal a8-d5 has to be kept open, otherwise there will be dual after 1…Qd5. Apologies Diyan.
The award of final as no other claims were received. I request the Prize-winners to contact me with their Postal address so that I can send them their Bookprizes (may or may not be a Chess problem book 🙂 )