(24.02.2014) The International Solving Contest was held all over the World on Sunday, January 26th 2014. There were two categories - "1" for more experienced solvers and "2" for beginners. The tourney directors were Gligor and Ivan Denkovski from Macedonia. Here are the results and some problems from the competition.

(16.02.2014) As we can see in the message by Thomas Maeder in the Mat Plus forum the new version 4.65 of the solving program Popeye is now available! Here is the full message:

(14.02.2014) The selection of “The Study of the Year“ is organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition and aimed at introducing a single friendly endgame study to the general public. The study should appeal to chess players of various levels and encourage them to pay more attention to endgame studies. Composers were invited to submit a single study (either their own or by others) that was published (either in a magazine or

(29.12.2013) The new version of the chess composition app for smartphones with Android OS - ChessComposer v2.3 is here! See the new features and also the freeware version which can be downloaded and used from everybody for free!

(25.12.2013) Here is my Christmas problem with wishes for a very successful and Happy New Year 2014!

(24.12.2013) Today is Christmas Eve! Here you can see three special Christmas problems by Juraj Lorinc, Kenneth Solja and Gabor Tar! I wish to all chess composers, solvers, players and KoBulChess.com visitors Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014!

(06.12.2013) The results of the FIDE World Cup 2013 are published now. Here you can see many of the top problems from almost all sections of the competition with complete solution and some comments.

(23.11.2013) The KoBulChess team is proud to announce the first ever Chess composition app for smartphones - the ChessComposer! Now you can compose EVERYWHERE and EVERYTIME directly on your phone with no need of any other chess set anymore!

(25.10.2013) Soon after the end of the congress in Batumi I received from Geoff Foster an improved version of his Wine Tourney 1st-2nd Prize winner problem where he was found a way to make all 16 moves as thematic captures  (which is very difficult with this dynamic combination of fairy conditions).

(27.07.2013) This is the second part with news and photos from WCCC Batumi 2013.

(26.09.2013) Here is the first part with information and photos from the 56th World Congress of Chess Composition in Batumi (Georgia)!

(20.09.2013) Today with my wife Snejina we celebrating our 5 years marriage anniversary. This is a good moment to present on the site the fairy condition which I have invented in 2010 and named to her - the "SneK Chess". ("Sne" from hers first name Snejina and "K" from hers family name "Kostadinova"). It has been presented in my lecture during the WCCC in Crete 2010.