Chess composition news (9 January 2016 edition)

Here's a few news about recent chess composition activities:

Yehuda Hoch 70 JT
Ofer Comay sent me an e-mail that the Variantim 2016 tourney will also serve as the birthday tourney Yehuda Hoch 70 JT. Please send your originals to Ofer Comay at his gmail.com address (first name and last name together without any point in the middle at gmail.com). As I checked for this article, the official website has no announcement yet but builds up an archive of old issues of Haproblemai and Variantim.

Didukh's pseudonyms
In the comments on his always interesting blog, Sergiy Didukh has admitted to using two pseudonyms. The article is to be found here, with thanks to Martin Minski for showing it to me. Yours Truly is interested if the pseudonym himself once used will also be found out eventually.

hhdbv
The endgame study collector Harold van der Heijden has published the fifth version of his database, now containing a total of 85,619 entries, 164 of them bear the name of Yours Truly. The internet address to order the database (download only, 14 MB, PGN format) is http://hhdbv.nl/ and the price of 50 Euro that, while looking steep at first, are made up for by the huge content. For hhdbiv owners, there are over 9000 new studies - literally, as it had 76,132 entries. Most of the year 2015 is covered, seeing as the database was issued in December (the previous one was of October 2010). For those who decide to wait, the next version is scheduled for 2020, which Yours Truly expects to be around the same price, unless the Euro breaks apart. (As a full disclosure, Yours Truly received as EG editor a free database download. The EG Archive has the issues 1 to 152 for download but those were long before he became an editor.)

Study of the Year 2014 entries
The entries for the annual contest Study of the Year for the year 2014 are online. The contest does not want to show the best study, but rather the one most suitable for the general chess public. In the past, we saw easily accessible studies without deep analysis but with a memorable ending or idea as the winner, suggesting that this time again analytical endgames would be without a chance - rightfully so, as they lack appeal to newcomers, even if they might importantly contribute to the theory.

EDIT, 14 January 2016: I found all previous "Study of the Year" winners on Sergiy Didukh's blog, with PGN.
Article on Didukh's blog in Russian