Category: Awards, other

Dear Friends,
With great delay I publish the award of the tournament Danka Petkova 100 MT2020-2021, due to my long illness after a very unsuccessful and dangerous vaccination against Covid. I apologize to everyone who waited for this material. Many thanks to the participants in the tournament, to the winners – world-famous masters, as well as to the readers who will look with interest at the tournament problems!
Be Valium healthy, cheerful and happy in the New 2022
Yours: Petko Petkov

18^th TZUICA TOURNEY AWARD – 2020

ORTHODOX SECTION: Almost half of the received entries were orthodox. We had 19 entries from 13 composers from 10 countries. The overall level of the section was average, with no really outstanding compositions. We hoped to see more Schnoebelen promotions in Rook and Bishop, but alas, the Queen and Knight promotions prevailed. Due to the lack of surprise element, we decided to start our award from Honourable Mentions.

FAIRY SECTION: We must admit this section exceeded our expectations, due to the out-of-the-box interpretations of the theme. In spite of the rather reduced participation (23 entries from 19 composers from 9 countries), the level of the tournament was quite high, with many problems worth retaining. We could hardly refrain ourselves from including all of them in the award!

“Dear chess friends!

The Final Award in TT-232 (…and now it’s time for half-neutrals!; #2, fairies) has been published.

There are no changes compared to the provisional award. Please, check the correctness of names, positions and solutions.

We thank all participants of the tourney and congratulate the Prize winners!”

Aleksey Oganesjan

The Prize winners: 1^st Prize – Petko Petkov; 2^nd Prize – Jean-Marc Loustau & Michel Caillaud; 3^rd and 4^th Prizes  – Hubert Gockel;
1^st Special Prize – Michel Caillaud & Jean-Marc Loustau; 2^nd Special Prize – Kjell Widlert.

We received 65 problems, a new record for our Sake tourney. The level was very good overall, in spite of the lack of outstanding problems. We decided to give 4 Prizes, 3 Honorable Mentions and 14 Commendations (without order). The new condition Point Reflection, which was invented by a young Japanese composer Hiryu Todoroki, got praises from many composers as “great,” “inspiring,” “very interesting and promising.”

Tadashi Wakashima, Toshiki Kobayashi and Hitoshi Yanami

69 problems by 35 composers from 14 countries have taken part in this tourney. We initially thought that the theme was rather difficult, but the number of entries seems to have proven that we were wrong. As usual we awarded problems that showed the theme intensively and we praised rich strategy as well as a good and pleasant construction, with all white or black officers used in the solutions. Interplay must also play a role in the solution. Some entries with small constructional blemishes, such as unused white / black figures in at least one phase have been sadly left out of the present award. We hope, however, their authors will be able to find out improved settings and even win prizes in other tournaments.

Eric Huber & Vlaicu Crisan

Dear chess friends,
The Award in TT-222 (It’s time for neutral pieces, hs#3.5-N)
has been published!

We thank all participants of the tourney! – Aleksey Oganesjan

Send your claims to the director of quick composing tourneys Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail alexeioganesyan@gmail.com until 29.08.2019

The results of the WCCI 2016-18 are just announced! 
Sincere congratulations to the WINNERS of the  Section G – FAIRIES:
Vlaicu Crișan, Petko Petkov, Lev Grolman / Borislav Gadjanski !!!

Results in PDF:  G-Fairies | Winners’ problems | The presentation of Section G-Fairies

7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 – Fairies

Preliminary results of section G-Fairies of the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 are published! The winners of the competition are: Gold medal – MARIO PARINELLO (Italy), Silver medal –  VLAICU CRIŞAN (Romania), Bronze medal – ROLF KOHRING (Germany). 

Congratulations to the authors of rewarded problems!

The preliminary results in section H-Retros and Proofgames (PDF) of the 7^th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2019 are published! The prize winners are:  VLAICU CRIŞAN (1^st Prize), NICOLAS DUPONT (2^nd Prize), VALERY SEMENENKO (3^rd Prize), PER OLIN (4^th Prize).   Congratulations!!!