14th of February, 2014
Happy Valentine’s Day! Wishing love, happiness and a very nice day to all of you! – Julia
Creation of hs#s for WCCT in cooperation – Juraj Lörinc
13th of February, 2014
I’ve a pleasure to publish an article by Juraj Lörinc “Creation of hs#s for WCCT in cooperation“. Author shows two steps of creative work for thematic tournaments and also a series of interesting originals.
My gratitude to Juraj and his co-author in the problems, ?udovít healthsavy.com Lehen, for sharing with us their creative process!
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11th of February, 2014:
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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.
New Forum Content – 11.02.2014
11th of February, 2014
While Forum is not active enough, I believe I should turn your attention to the New Forum contents added! New posts to the Forum you can see on the right panel under Recent posts to Forum section (for a while I’ve moved it before the Recent Comments section). Your posts to the Forum are very welcome, as this way you can open some new topics which are out of my publications, but might be interesting to the others.
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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.
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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.
Photos – Gifts and diplomas (dec2013-jan2014)
A Gallery section (under Tourneys menu) is updated with some new pictures:
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20th-31st of January, 2014:
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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.
Award of KoBulChess Fairies 2012
(19.01.2014) Here is the Award of KoBulChess Fairies 2012. It is on english and german languages. Congratulations to the awarded composers and many thanks to the judge Manfred Rittirsch!
(Diyan Kostadinov)
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15-18th of January, 2014:
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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I) – Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014 – Hans Gruber.