feenschach/Die Schwalbe Theme Tourneys extended!

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Theme Tourneys extended!

The joint theme tourneys of feenschach / Die Schwalbe to celebrate the birthdays of Hemmo Axt, Zdravko Maslar, and Hans Peter Rehm  have been extended: New closing date is October 31, 2013 !

All themes are open for orthodox and fairy, even retro presentation. You may find the description in German and English with some example problems e.g. at http://www.thbrand.de/downloads/f67-69TT.pdf

Also do not miss the Werner Speckmann 100 memorial tourney by Die Schwalbe for n# with Empress (combination of Rook and Knight); you may find details at http://www.dieschwalbe.de/kompositionsturniere.htm

Closing date is August 21, 2013 (Werner Speckmanns centenary).

Have fun and good luck!

The AWARD – JF-2013/I – FINAL version

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FINAL Award JF-2013-I

FINAL version
of the AWARD JF-2013/I
is ready!

 

I’m happy to announce that Final version of the Award for Julia’sFairies-2013/I is ready! I’ll add also PDF version of it soon! Diplomas will be sent as well in a week! My gratitude to the judge, Juraj Brabec, for his work under the Award!

Your original problems are always appreciated at Julia’s Fairies! /Julia

Objections and final award JF-2013/I

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Final result

To the Preliminary Award of Julia’s Fairies 2013-I received one objection, regarding 9th Prize (No.273, Skoba&Golha). A problem with the same content was earlier published by Cornel Pacurar (PS2514F,  The Problemist Supplement 09/2011).

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The judge’s decision is: 

The problems have the same main content – the black Rook helps the white King and pawn to gradually move to the other end of the board. But there are also differences in favour of No.273:

  • mate with a promotion into Rook;
  • in a) a Rook is captured on black squares, in b) – on white.

In my opinion this is enough to justify the independent existence of problem No.273. But, of course, it is not enough for such a high score, so it loses its prize and is instead awarded with 4th-11th commendation. As a result, the Award has 8 prizes, 10 hon.mentions, 11 commendations.

No other objections were received, so the Award of Julia’s Fairies 2013-I becomes final as mentioned above.

The Final Award of Julia’sFairies-2013/I will be published in few days, but for now the appendix about changes mentioned above is added to Preliminary Award.

WCCI 2010-2012: Preliminary results coming…

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WCCI 2010-2012 – Preliminary results –
The most interesting sections 🙂 are coming!

  • (15.06) See the corrected results of Section E (helpmates) published!
  • (16.06) See the results of Section F (selfmates) published! Congratulations to Diyan Kostadinov for his 3rd Prize!
  • (16.06) The results of Section G (FAIRIES) are published at WFCC website! So much happy for our winners – Petko A. Petkov, Vlaicu Crișan, Peter Gvozdják! 

Congratulations and the very best wishes to all participants! Congratulations to the winners!!

The AWARD – JF-2013/I – English version ready!

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Preliminary Award JF-2013-I

English version
of the AWARD JF-2013/I
is ready!

 

I’m happy to announce that English version of the Award for Julia’sFairies-2013/I is ready! I’m so much grateful to Geoff Foster who’s worked together with me under this translation, has helped me to understand many problems and comments better and to make the result so close to original text. I have to tell also, that with all the work we still appreciated all detailed comments a lot and were thankful for them to the judge! I believe that many of you, who will read the Award, will understand some of the problems much better.

The Award is preliminary now and will become final after two weeks, on the 17th of July. The final version will be corrected in accordance with comments and objections you send.

One more time my congratulations to the winners and thanks a lot to all participants!

Back-Home Thematic Tournament

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The 5th ChessProblems.ca Thematic Tournament requires original chess compositions employing the Back-Home fairy condition, recently invented by Nicolas Dupont. Entries should be submitted to the tourney director, Nicolas Dupont, via email at tt5@chessproblems.ca. The closing date is December 31st, 2013. The tournament sections and judges are as follows:

Section 1: Help and Help-Self
Any type of help and help-self stipulations. Fairy units are allowed, but no additional fairy conditions.
Judges: Vlaicu Crisan and Eric Huber (Romania).

Section 2: Series-Movers
Any type of series and parry-series stipulations. Additional fairy conditions are allowed, but no fairy units.
Judge: Paul Raican (Romania).

Section 3: Proof Games
No fairy units or additional conditions are allowed.
Judge: Michel Caillaud (France).

See full announcement in pdf file or the original publication at http://tt5.chessproblems.ca/!

See also The back-home fairy condition article by Nicolas Dupont.

MARIO G. GARCIA 65 JT

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MARIO G. GARCIA 65 JUBILEE TOURNEY

The Union Problemistas’s Argentina of Chess announces the tournament of composition to commemorate 65 Mario Guido García’s birthdays

Prizes: Books,honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded
The preliminary award of tourney will be sent to participants by e-mail and will be published on the website of Unión Argentina de Problemistas de Ajedrez (UAPA) http://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar/   ?Read more… (click to show/hide)

The AWARD – JF-2013/I

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The AWARD – JF-2013/I

June, 17th, 2013

Dear Friends,

First of all I should apologize for the delay with the Award for Julia’sFairies-2013/I! As I have written before, I’ve got it from the judge, Juraj can u buy cialis online Brabec, yet in May, but needed some time to prepare for publication. The original Award is in Russian and I’d like to thank Dmitri Turevski, who’s helped me a lot with correction of Russian terminology.

English version is not ready yet, but will be presented soon, with a help of Geoff Foster who’s so kind to help me with language corrections in many cases. For now just the introduction to the Award is translated. 

My congratulations to the winners! Thanks a lot to all participants!  

My gratitude to Juraj Brabec for so fast judging and so detailed and interesting comments in the Award!