The 7th ARVES Jenever tourney

Yochanan Afek, the famous IM and studies expert from the Netherlands, invites to the 7th ARVES Jenever Tourney in the memory of the Swiss composer Samuel "Sam" Isenegger (2.xi.1899 - 15.xi.1964), about whom can be learnt a bit on the German language Wikipedia page. The announcement of the tourney as well as several others can be found at the website of the Swiss chess problem federation who hosts the WCCC 2014. Yours Truly likes to present two more studies of his own, one of which surely fits the theme and the other debatably also fulfills it.



Siegfried Hornecker
Europa Rochade, 03/2007, 4th honorable mention
Draw

1.b6! Sc5+ 2.Kb5 Kd4 3.b4, and:
- 3.-Sd7 4.Kc6 Se5+ 5.Kc7 Tf8 6.b7 Tf7+ 7.Kc8! Sc6 8.b5 Sa7+ 9.Kb8 S:b5 10.Ka8 Sc7+ 11.Ka7! Se6 12.Ka8 Sc7+ 13.Ka7 Sd5 14.Ka8! with positional draw; or:
- 3.-Sa4!! 4.K:a4 Kc4 5.a6! R:b6 6.b5! Rb8! 7.a7 Ra8 8.b6 Kc5 9.Ka5 Kc6 10.Ka6 Rh8 11.b7 Rh4! 12.b8S+! with positional draw
The interesting battle between the pawns and pieces received the fourth honorable mention in the tourney that I think was only open to German composers.



Siegfried Hornecker
Problem Paradise, April-June 2007
White wins

1.h8Q B:h8 2.b8Q Bd4 3.Q:b6 B:b6 4.d8S Bd4 5.S:c6 Bg7 6.e8S wins
Promotion to queen on b8 and h8, promotion to knight on d8 and e8. It is however arguable if this fits the Jenever theme.