(08.02.2019) The first threemover of the year is from our Israel master. Interesting play with try and light construction.
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(08.02.2019) Happy to publish the first twomover of the year from our Russian expert!
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(25.01.2019) The editorial board of Phenix are annoncing their 16th Thematic Tourney. It is asked to compose problems with these options of WinChloe : Conditionsfromply=n and / or Conditionsuntilply=n
There are four sections :
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(19.01.2019) Here you can see an interesting article by Petko Petkov about the new fairy options in WinChloe which looks very promising for a future work. It was published in Phenix 288-289 in September-October 2018
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(15.01.2019) Few days ago I saw an old topic in the MatPlus forum about probably a "new theme for S#2" which grab my attention and few hours later I was ready with this selfmate. Is this the first realisation of the theme in an orthodox selfmate? Opinions!?
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(13.01.2019) The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 5th Composing Tourney in 6 sections:
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(13.01.2019) Here is the announcement of the Fadil Abdurahmanovic & Mike Prcic 80 -JT organized by Strate Gems.
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(11.01.2019) Here is the Award of KoBulChess Helpmates in 2 moves 2016. Many thanks to the judge Shankar Ram! The award is open for claims for 1 month period.
Corrections in the Final Award:
- the 4th Prize winner now is with it's correct diagram;
- the 5th HM problem by Valery Gurov is removed because of the anticipation. Other HM problems which was behind it, now are 1 place up.
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(04.01.2019) Zoran Gavrilovski is one of the most talented and versatile composers in the world (and an editor of The Macedonian Problemist magazine). He has a lot of masterpieces and here you can see the Award of his 50th Jubilee Tourney which was in 5 sections: #2, #3, S#, H#2, H#n. In the article are included the problems of all winners (and the two selfmates by the bulgarian participant Petko Petkov), three selected compositions by Zoran and also a link to the full award.
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(04.01.2019) Wish you all a very Happy and successful new year! Here is the first Helpmate for the year - a simple one showing check prevention. This should encourage all to attempt more complex themes!
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(04.01.2019) Here is the first original for 2019! A fantastic fairy problem by Vaclav Kotesovec in the author's typical style.
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(31.12.2018/23:59h) One of my most difficult and thematically rich selfmate composed few minutes before the end of year 2018 is here! I dedicate it to my daughter Martina! She turned 1 year old on 06.12.2018.
Happy new 2019 year to everybody!
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(31.12.2018) Two selfmates by Viktor Syzonenko. Sorry for their view, but I hurry to just publish them before midnight. Will update them soon.
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(31.12.2018) New original by Kenan Velikhanov which is the last Helpmate for 2018.
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(30.12.2018) Two Fairy originals by Sergej Smotrov.
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