Mémorial Denis Blondel – postponed for 3 months (April 30, 2014)
In order to honour the memory of Denis Blondel, deceased on 21th June 2012, Phénix organizes a composing tourney in two sections :
Section A) : all types of problems with only one type of fairy piece, which will be either the Rose or Locust.
Section B) : all types of problems with one or two types of fairy pieces, which will be the Rose and Locust.
See full announcement in English and in French!
Announcement of informal tourney in the newspaper
„Saesische Zeitung“ 2014/15
Judges for 2014/15 are:
2#: Franz Pachl; 3#: Frank Richter; n#: Michael Barth
Please send your originals to Dr. Frank Reinhold, e-mail: frank.reinhold@arcor.de
Springaren Winter Tourney 2013-2014
Problems of all kinds where at least one Knight move to a corner is an important part of the solution. Entries to Rolf Uppström (rolf.uppstrom@springaren.se) before 1.4.2014.
Judge: Christer Jonsson.
MT120 ARNOLDO ELLERMAN -2013
The Argentinian´s Union of Problemists of Chess announces the tournament of composition MT120 Arnoldo Ellerman. →See full announcement!
Will be awarded: Prizes, books,honourable mentions and commendations. 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/
The 2nd Israel Open Chess Problem Composition Tourney
The Israel Chess Composition Society is announcing the second thematic composition tourney which is open for all composers in the world. Prizes will be given to award winners.
Section 1: Two-movers. Dedicated to Aaron Hirschenson on occasion of his 70’s birthday.
Section 2: Help-mates in three moves. Dedicated to the memory of Baruch Lender on occasion of his 100’s birthday
Entries to: Omer Friedland, Harimon 8, Givat Shmuel 54403, Israel, omrfree@gmail.com
Deadline: August 31, 2014.
René J. Millour 70 Jubiläumsturnier
(71. feenschach-Thematurnier)
Announcement of the René J. Millour 70 JT:
Required are problems of any genre which show promotions.
Closing date is March 18th 2014.
Entries should be sent to the tournament director Hans Gruber, preferably via email hg.fee@t-online.de
The judge will be René J. Millour. Prices (money or books) are offered as a reward for the best entries.
Announcement
of Karol Mlynka 70 Jubilee Tourney C 11.08.2014
Theme: Cyclic change of defense motifs or harmful effects.
Section A – orthodox, section B – fairy. Any stipulations, conditions and fairy pieces are allowed.
Closing date: August 11th 2014.
The judge will be the jubilant.
Entries should be sent preferably via email: karol.mlynka@pobox.sk with the remark KM70JT or snail mail to:
Karol Mlynka, Wolkrova 3, 85101 Bratislava 5, Slovakia.
Prizes, Honourable Mentions and Commendations. → See full announcement with examples!
Dear Friends,
Don’t miss the tournament Zabunov-85MT 2013 organized by KoBulChess.com website! It’s a memorial tourney on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the famous Bulgarian chess composer of the recent past FM Vladimir Zabunov (1928-1997).
The judge of the tourney is GM Petko A. Petkov (Bulgaria).
Send problems to Diyan Kostadinov by email: dkostadinov@abv.bg
Deadline: 15.11.2013. → See the whole announcement at KoBulChess.com website!
Mémorial Denis Blondel
In order to honour the memory of Denis Blondel, deceased on 21th June 2012, Phénix organizes a composing tourney in two sections :
Section A) : all types of problems with only one type of fairy piece, which will be either the Rose or Locust.
Section B) : all types of problems with one or two types of fairy pieces, which will be the Rose and Locust.
See full announcement in English and in French!
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Orbit announces 2014 informal tourney for Unorthodox help-play original problems. |
JUGEMENT des #2 de PROBLEMISTE 2012
Par Claude WIEDENHOFF
Online, 2012’s judgements are (will be) at :
http://www.problemiste.fr/#/
Juges/Judges : 2013
#3, #n : Antonio Garofalo (ITA) ♦ h#2, h#n : Thomas Maeder (CHE) ♦ s#, Féériques : Diyan Kostadinov (BGR)
Please send your originals to Alain Biénabe : admin (AT) problemiste.com
See HERE (in English and Russian) the information about
Regular tournaments by Variantim and also
Alex Ettinger 90 Memorial Tourney
The Israel Chess Composition Society is announcing a composition tourney to commemorate the 90’s birthday of Alex Ettinger (1923-2005). Alex, born in Frankfurt, Germany, immigrated to Israel in 1933 and was a dedicated member of our society. Required are fairy-miniatures with free theme. All types of problems are accepted but with at least one fairy condition and one fairy piece. Judge: Michael Grushko. Please send entries to the director, Paz Einat (paz@pazeinat.com; 45a Moshe Levi St. Nes Ziona, 74207, Israel). Closing date: 30.11.2013
The Italian Problemist Association (API) organizes
The 4th Mini-Tour called NEUTRAL PIECES
Will be admitted any type of problems from 2 to 6 moves. Every problems must to have one or more neutral piece(s) in initial position. (See original announcement in Italian/English in PDF here!)
More solutions and twins are allowed, but not zero-position and duplex. It’s allowed also only one fairy condition. Problems must be C+, please point out the software used. Sent to this address: valerio.agostini@gmail.com
Sinfonie Scacchistiche with the problems (and award) published will be sent to all participants. Deadline: August 31, 2014.
