Quartz 42, November 2015:
Award of Quartz TT9 (Meinking fairy MT)
judge Kjell Widlert
is online at: http://quartz.chessproblems.ca/pdf/42/Quartz42.pdf
Mečislavas Palevičius MT
Mečislavas Palevičius memorial tourney
The Lithuanian chess composers` society announces a memorial tourney of Mečislavas Palevičius.
Theme: serial (all kinds) mate or stalemate problem with neutral pawns. Other fairy pieces or conditions are allowed. No more than 15 moves. Entries must be sent by 1st of January, 2016, to director of tourney Borisas Gelpernas, Vytenio g. 27-15, LT-03112 Vilnius, Lithuania or by e-mail: Borisas2011@gmail.com.
Write your post address. The judge will be announced latterly. Prizes: books.
The award will be announced in „Šachmatija“ in the middle of 2016.
AWARD JF-2014/III
…and now goes the last Award of the informal tournaments on JF in 2014!
I should tell I’ve received it yet in July, but as two others came almost the same time, I’ve decided to keep the natural order and to start from JF-2014/I and JF-2014/II. Also, I wanted so much to keep more or less regular publications on JF that hadn’t enough time to prepare all awards faster. Today I was really very happy to write to the judge, Kjell Widlert, that the Award is going to be announced this evening; and here it is for you, dear authors and readers:
This 3rd competition of 2014 had the most of published problems. And the Award looks really as a monumental work with so many wonderful problems and so many detailed comments! To tell you how strong was this tournament, I want to quote Kjell’s words from the Award: “I don’t think I have ever felt the need to give 8 prizes in a tourney before!“.
I’m very grateful to Kjell for his work! And, one more time this month, I wish to tell to all the winners how great you are, and to all participants how much I appreciate your activity here!
The Award uses animated diagrams. Only one of them couldn’t be animated (Invisibles), and several problems have some parts of the solutions impossible to animate as well. I’m sorry about it! I’ve tried to check all diagrams several times, but they are many, 33(!), and I apologize for any mistakes I might have made. I appreciate your corrections, if needed!
The Award is provisional and will become final after one month. Also, previous cialis black no prescription years I’ve made diplomas for all JF’s competitions. So I’ll do this year! Just have to ask you for some more patience again.. – Julia.
Václav Kotěšovec 60 JT – C 29.7.2016
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AWARD JF-2014/II
Dear Friends, I’m happy to announce one more Award of JF-2014 –
The Award of Julia’sFairies-2014/II
by Dmitri Turevski
My gratitude to Dmitri for this big and complicated work! Also, I’d like to use this chance to thank Dmitri one more time for the animation program, Py2Web, I use for a year on JF. The program was implemented exactly during period 2014/II, so half of the problems were animated already, but in the Award I’ve made all problems animated. Enjoy!
My congratulations to all the winners and participants of this competition!
The Award is provisional and will become final after one month. The Award for 2014/III is coming soon. – Julia
AWARD JF-2014/I
Dear Friends, I have a pleasure to announce
The Award of Julia’sFairies-2014/I
by Vlaicu Cri?an
As always, I am very grateful to the judge for so big, so complicated work of analyzing many different kinds of fairy problems! I’m sure, that readers will enjoy the problems themselves and also detailed comments and pleasant writing style of Vlaicu!
I heartily congratulate all the winners and participants of this strong competition! Thank you for all kinds of contributions to JF – compositions, articles, comments..!
The Award is provisional and will become final after one month. The Awards for 2014/II and 2014/III are coming xanax soon. – Julia
Quick Composing TT-150: Proca Retractor
Quick Composing TT-150 by SuperProblem
Tourney name: “Forward Defense”
Stipulation: Proca Retractor
Theme: Proca Retractor with white try refuted by a Forward Defense (see below). Fairy pieces are not allowed. Fairy conditions are allowed. Proca Retractor is a defensive Retractor. Black is defending by trying to retract the moves that will forbid (or delay) the achievement of White’s goal. Examples of orthodox or fairy Proca Retractors is here.
Judge: Vlaicu Crişan & Eric Huber. Closing date: October 4, 2015
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru. Download the announcement in English [pdf, 180 KB]
WCCI 2013-2015: Announcement
The WFCC is inviting composers of all countries to participate in the 2013-15 WCCI. The tourney director is Dmitry Turevsky (email: dmitri.turevski@gmail.com). Participants may submit their entries by January 20, 2016. Details can be found in the announcement. Deadline for the submission of entries to the director: January 20th 2016.
Judges for Fairies&Retros:
G) Fairies: Juraj Brabec (SVK), Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR), Georgy Evseev (RUS), Petko Petkov (BUL)*, Kjell Widlert (SWE)
*the change as of 08.09.2015: Yury Gordian (UKR) → Petko Petkov (BUL)
H) Retros: Dmitry Baibikov (ISR), Nicolas Dupont (FRA), Andrey Frolkin (UKR), Bernd Graefrath (GER), Kostas Prentos (GRE)
Frank Richter + Sven Trommler = 100 JT
Jubilee tournament “Frank Richter + Sven Trommler = 100”
In March resp. April 2016 the problemists Frank Richter and Sven Trommler celebrate their 50th birthdays. On this occasion a jubilee tourney is announced in two sections:
A: Orthodox selfmates in 2-15 moves, free theme
B: Logical direct-play fairies (#n, s#n, r#n, etc.) in 4-15 moves.
Authors are kindly requested to indicate the software used in testing and to which extend the test was partial or full. Both sections will be judged jointly by Frank and Sven. The prize fund of 300€ will be divided among the sections according to the quality of the entries. These should be sent to the tourney director Arnold Beine, Grund 15, 65366 Geisenheim, Germany; arnold.beine@web.de, by 28 March 2016.
Jubilee tourney Oliver Ralík 70 C 19.12.2015
Jubilee tourney Oliver Ralík 70 C 19.12.2015
Theme: Composition with any stipulation, in which the same piece makes at least two distinctive patterns during solution. Authors are recommended to point the pattern in the comment to composition to ensure the intention is not missed.
Sections: a) Only orthodox pieces; b) Fairy pieces allowed.
In both sections fairy conditions are allowed. See detailed announcement with examples!
Judge: Juraj Lörinc
Deadline 19.12.2015, submissions to the director – jubilee Oliver Ralík, either by e-mail to oliver.ralik@gmail.com or by letter to Oliver Ralík, Javorová 9, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia.