 (17.11.2015) To castle or not to castle -- this is the theme of this nice original helpmate moremover by Fadil Abdurahmanovic and Ioannis Kalkavouras!
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(16.11.2015) This four-phase miniature threemover by Karol Mlynka shows multiple themes.
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(14.11.2015) Helpmate in 4 solutions by Abdelaziz Onkoud. Starflight of black king and four different promotions of the wPf7. It also shows the 'wigwag' theme using the white pawn.
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(13.11.2015) Happy to publish this nice helpmate in Tanagra from the Russian expert Dmitri Turevski. The two solutions are a great example of unity in diversity! I take the opportunity to thank him for all the wonderful work he is doing apart from composing -- the Popeye interface 'Olive' the free database 'Yacpdb' and the latest addition "Py2web" (the animation software)!
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(12.11.2015) The beautiful miniature of Viktoras Paliulionis shows an unusual reciprocal Bristol! A classic for the future collections!
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(10.11.2015) The beautiful HOTF helpmate from Morocco shows line openings and closings!
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(09.11.2015) The threemover from Leonid Makaronez shows selfpinning and unpinning.
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(03.11.2015) Two nice helpmates from Anatoly Stepochkin. In the first he adds dual avoidance blocks to a well known setting. Can it escape anticipation? The other slightly longer one has active white sacrifices with model mates.
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 (02.11.2015) Nice twomover with elegant position and rich strategy by Fedir Kapustin and Evgeny Permyakov.
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(31.10.2015) Miodrag's original helpmate shows the recently popular and complex idea "Perpetuum Mobile" in which twins are the first black move of the previous two solutions!
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(30.10.2015) Interesting fairy Tanagra with exotic pieces and nice twin form by Kenneth Solja.
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(25.10.2015) Fairy Meredith by Pierre Tritten with two model mates after KoBul Kings transformations.
Here is also a version 617.1. with co-author Miodrag Mladenovic.
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(21.10.2015) Helpmate moremover with a great sacrificial key by Srecko Radovic.
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(18.10.2015) A neat miniature helpmate from our Russian expert. Hope it escapes anticipation!
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(18.10.2015) The Lithuanian chess composers` society announces a memorial tourney of Mecislavas Palevicius.
Theme: serial (all kinds) mate or stalemate problem with neutral pawns. Other fairy pieces or conditions are allowed. No more than 15 moves.
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