Issue 17, December 2019
, of the ChessProblems.ca Bulletin is available online at http://Bulletin.ChessProblems.ca. Includes Originals, 4 articles (Andreas Thoma, Jeff Coakley & Andrey Frolkin, Arno Tüngler, Adrian Storisteanu), TT9 & TT10 Report, Blast from the Past IV.
The bulletin is published by Cornel Pacurar since March 2014 and is mainly dedicated to Fairies, Series-Movers in particular.
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Original Problems JF-2020/I
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March, 2020 The judge of JF-2020/I: Eric Huber. Coming soon: Nobody in the waiting list..
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All previously published problems & informal competitions you can find on the top menu page of Original Problems or its subsections. Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson |
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Original Problems
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February, 2020 (2) The judge of JF-2020/I: Eric Huber. Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…
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All previously published problems & informal competitions you can find on the top menu page of Original Problems or its subsections. Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson |
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46th FairyChessFriendsMeeting at Andernach, May 21-24, 2020The first Andernach FairyChessFriendsMeeting took place in 1975, now we invite you to paricipate in the 46th meeting. Again we’ll meet at Hotel Stammbaum (Marktgasse 1, 56626 Andernach, Germany). All rooms are reserved for our meeting, for booking please contact the hotel or any other accommodation directly. Thursday, May 21 Friday, May 22 Saturday, May 23, 12.30 pm: Schwalbe board meeting Sunday, May 24, 11 am: Awards ceremony (composing, solving) | End of the 46th FairyChessFriendsMeeting. |
Announcement Munich Fairy Chess Tourney 2020
h#2 Point Reflection
The mpk-Blätter announce the Munich Fairy Tourney 2020 in two sections:
A) h#2 with the fairy condition Point Reflection
B) h#2 with the fairy condition Point Reflection plus one of the conditions Circe or Anticirce
The theme is free. Fairy pieces and/or further fairy conditions are not accepted. Problems in more than one phase are allowed, whether with set play, multiple solutions, twinnings or some combination of those methods.
In the case of low participation, the judge reserves the right to merge both sections into one single award.
Judge: Thomas Brand | Tournament director: Rolf Kohring | Closing date: October 10th, 2020 | Announcement in PDF
Submissions should be sent to mpk-blaetter@gmx.de (preferred) or Rolf Kohring, Bolkamer Straße 5a, D-83104 Tuntenhausen, Germany. The definition of the fairy condition Point Reflection can be looked up in the fairy chess lexicon of ’Schwalbe’ as well as in the award of the 19. Sake tourney at WCCC 2019
Quick Composing TT-238 by SuperProblem
Tourney name: “Full-length reflex defense“
Stipulation: r#n (n>=3)
Theme: required to compose Reflexmate in 3-n moves with:
– full-length threat, i. e. with the threat that ends with a mate to White King on n-th Black move exactly;
– at least one “full-length reflex defense”, i. e. with at least one variation that defenses from the threat and has a White try that starts on 2nd move and ends with a mate to Black King on nth White move exactly. At that, in this try 2nd, 3rd, … and (n-1)-th White moves must coincide with the same ones in the full-length threat.
Any kinds of twins are not allowed. Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Miodrag Mladenović. | Closing date: March 19, 2020 | Download the announcement (pdf, 228 KB)
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
“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: 1st Prize – Petko Petkov; 2nd Prize – Jean-Marc Loustau & Michel Caillaud; 3rd and 4th Prizes – Hubert Gockel;
1st Special Prize – Michel Caillaud & Jean-Marc Loustau; 2nd Special Prize – Kjell Widlert.
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Original Problems
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February, 2020 The judge of JF-2020/I: Eric Huber. Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list!
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All previously published problems & informal competitions you can find on the top menu page of Original Problems or its subsections. Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson |
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Original Problems
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January, 2020 The judge of JF-2020/I: Eric Huber. Coming soon: nobody in the waiting list…
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All previously published problems & informal competitions you can find on the top menu page of Original Problems or its subsections. Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson |
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