Announcement: 2nd TT FRME

Vidadi Zamanov sent two PDF files. Here is the other announcement. The original file contained also examples.

2nd TT FRME, 2020The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 2nd TT FREM, in four 7 sections:A) Twomovers (#2) Theme: One-phase-cycle of double defensive motifs against only one threat. (aAB/bBC/cCA;
aAB/bBC/cCD/dDA etc.). Two or more threats are not allowed.Judge: Karol Mlynka (Slovakia)Send to tournament director: Twomovers (#2) to Youness Ben Jelloun (Marocco) E-mail: ubenjelloun@outlook.frB) Threemovers (#3) Theme: At least two different white pieces play to the same square, on the 2nd and on the 3rdmoves.Judge: Alexander Melnichuk (Russia)C) Moremovers (#4-6) Theme: White active sacrifice of at least two pieces (not pawns!) in sequence and sacrifices
of pieces are accepted by black. The sacrifice on the first move is not thematic.Judge: Aleksandr Sygurov (Russia)D) Endgame studies Theme: Double Sacrifice. During the solution, a White minor piece (bishop or knight) moves
to a square where is can be captured by at least two of the opponents pieces.Judge: Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark)E) Selfmates (S#3-5) Theme: Destruction of a black battery: In the initial position, there is a black X / Y battery,
where Y is the back piece of the battery. In at least one variant or threat, the figure X plays and gives a battery-mate
to the white king. After that, in at least one variant, the piece Y plays and destruct the battery giving mate to the
white king without battery.Judge: Petko Petkov (Bulgaria)
Send to tournament director: Threemovers (#3), Moremovers (#4-6), Endgame studies and Selfmates (#3-5)to Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan) E-mail: vidadi_zamanov@mail.ruF) Helpmates (H#2) theme: “The solution must have a double check to the white king at least once.” Additives
any other theme are welcome. Multiple solutions, twins are acceptable. Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.Judge: Viktor Zaitsev(Belarus)G) Helpmates (H#3) theme: In set play, two or three black officers (not pawns) are captured. The same officers
are in the solution used to block the squares around the black king. Twins are allowed, but there must be a set play
and solution for each twin. All forms of twins are allowed.Judge: Ladislav Packa (Slovakia)Send to tournament director: H#2 and H#3 to HJamal M Elbaz (Morocco) E-mail: allamjamal2@gmail.com
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded. Send problems in format PDF.
Closing date: 15. 08. 2020. The award – 2020
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: http://frme.cf/

Announcement: 6th FRME Composing Tourney

Vidadi Zamanov sent two PDF files. Here is one announcement.

6th Composing Tourney of FRME, 2020The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 6th Composing Tourney in four 8
sections:Twomovers (#2) Judge: Mikhail Khramcevich (Belarus)
Send to tournament director: Youness Ben Jelloun (Marocco) E-mail: ubenjelloun@outlook.frThreemovers (#3) Judge: Oleg Efrosinin (Russia)Moremovers (#N) Judge: Valery Kirillov (Russia)

Studies	(+;=)	Judge: Yochanan Afek (Israel)Judge: Valery Kopyl (Ukraine)
Selfmates (S#)

Send to tournament director: Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan) E-mail: vidadi_zamanov@mail.ru
Helpmates H#2 Judge: Ladislav Packa (Slovakia)
Helpmates H#2.5-3 Judge: Kenneth Solja (Finland)
Helpmates H#3.5-N Judge: Hans Gruber (Germany)
Send to tournament director: Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco)
E-mail: jamalelbaz3@gmail.com
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.
Send problems and studies in format PDF.
Closing date: 30. 09. 2020. The award – 2020
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: http://frme.cf/
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Announcement: "Physical Distancing" tourney by SCHACH

The German magazine SCHACH in connection with ChessBase (prizes) and several members of the German Problem Federation "Die Schwalbe" announces a "Physical Distancing" chess problem tourney.

Announcements (PDF files):
German - http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/images/2020/coronawettbewerb.pdf
English - http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/images/2020/corona-competition.pdf

 Magazine SCHACH (Germany) presents:ª http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/images/2020/corona-composition.pdfThe ›Corona Composition Tournament‹Physical Distancing is on everyone’s lips and now it is also on the chessboard! We are looking for previously unpublished problems with the topics of ›mate in two (or more) moves‹, ›helpmate‹, ›win‹ or ›draw‹. It is required that in the starting position all pieces keep physical distance, ie, they don’t touch each other but instead all surrounding squares are unoccupied. This specification is retained in the solution process; exept with captures, side lines and the last move of the solution. The judge will favour compositions in which distance is maintained throughout!

[There are three examples in the announcement which are omitted here. SH]

Send your composition(s) by email to tournament director Thomas
Brand by Friday 10 July at the latest: t.brand@gmx.net. Judge Hans
Gruber will announce his decision in the October issue of SCHACH(to be published on 25 September 2020).

[The prizes promised by SCHACH can't easily be copied because of the layout. They are:
1st prize: 200 EUR ChessBase voucher
2nd prize: 150 EUR ChessBase voicher
3rd prize: 100 EUR ChessBase voucher
4th prize:  annual subscription of SCHACH (12 issues)
5th prize: book "Emanual Lasker", volume I, signed by the authors
special prize for the composition with the most pieces: 100 EUR (tiebreak: quality of the composition).
SH]

 

Announcement: 8th FIDE World Cup in Composing

https://fide.com/news/464
https://fide.com/calendar/50617

Composers will be surely pleased to know that the used time controls for composing are "Standard". Due to technical limitations, composers will need to self-regulate this to make sure they don't use "Blitz" or "Correspondence" time controls for composing. Or the dreaded "My wife wants me to stop composing but I only need five more minutes" time controls.

Announcement: 4th Composing Tourney of FRME, 2018

                                                                               4th Composing Tourney of FRME, 2018

The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 4th Composing Tourney in four 6 sections:

Twomovers (#2) Judge: Mark Basisty (Ukraine)
Send to tournament director: Twomovers to Youness Ben Jelloun №6 Rue 9 hay salam ain kadous Ville FES Postale code 30000 Marocco ubenjelloun@outlook.fr

Threemovers (#3) Judge: Elmar Abdullayev ( Azerbaijan) 
Moremovers (#N) Judge: Oto Mihalčo (Slovakia)
Studies (+;=) Judge: Mario Guido García (Argentina)
Selfmates (S#) Judge: Miodrag Mladenovic (Serbia) 

Send to tournament director: Threemovers, Moremovers, Studies and Selfmates to Vidadi Zamanov, Vidadi Street, 4/6, Goychay, Azerbaijan. vidadi_zamanov@mail.ru

Helpmates (h#2) Judge: Francesco Simoni (Italy)
Helpmates (H#3 and H#N) Judge: Valery Kirillov (Russia)

Send to tournament director: H#2, H#3 and H#N to Jamal M Elbaz, Résidence Imane, Bloc B immeuble D appt 13. Avenue Tarik ibno Ziad Temara Morocco. jamalelbaz6@gmail.com

Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.

Send problems and studies in format PDF.

Closing date: 30. 09. 2018.

The award – 2018

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Best wishes, Vidadi Zamanov 03.11.2017

Announcement: Peter Siegfried Krug 50 JT

(submitted by Mario Guido Garcia)

JT50 PETER S. KRUG

To celebrate the  50th  birthday of Peter Siegfried Krug  a composing tourney for endgame studies is announced.  -Theme: free – In two sections : A Studies Win –   B Studies Draw –  Maximum 3 entries are allowed in each section – Judge: Peter S. Krug  – Send your original entries to director: Mario G. García   by e-mail to:  marioggarcia@ gmail.com   Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.- The provisional award will be issued in December   2017,   will be sent-to-participants-by-e-mail , and may see in the websites of ARVES and UAPA –  Closing date: september 30 , 2017

Azerbaijan Chess Composition Tournaments 2017

Azerbaijan Chess Composition Tournaments 2017

Samir Badalov - 55 MT, 2017 (Studies)
(13.02.1962- 25.08.2011)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing “Samir Badalov-55 MT”' memorial tournament for studies (free theme).
Judge: Muradkhan Muradov (Azerbaijan).
Send (please PGN) to tournament director: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)
abdullaev-elmar@bk.ru
Closing date: 31. 05. 2017. The award – 2017.

Agshin Masimov - 55 JT, 2017 (Studies)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing
“Agshin Masimov - 55”' jubilee tournament for studies (free theme).
Judge: Agshin Masimov (Azerbaijan). Send (please PGN) to tournament director: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)
abdullaev-elmar@bk.ru
Closing date: 31. 05. 2017. The award - 2017.

Suleyman Abdullayev – 50 JT, 2017 (#2 - Miniature)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing
“Suleyman Abdullayev – 50”' jubilee tournament for miniature twomovers (free theme).
#2 - Judge: Suleyman Abdullayev (Azerbaijan) . Send to tournament director: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan) abdullaev-elmar@bk.ru
Closing date: 31. 05. 2017. The award - 2017.

Islam Kazimov – 65 JT, 2017 (#2, #3)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing
“Islam Kazimov – 65”' jubilee tournament for twomovers and threemovers (free theme).
Judge: #2, #3 - Araz Almammadov (Azerbaijan).
Send to tournament director: Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan) vidadi_zamanov@mail.ru
Closing date: 31. 05. 2017. The award – 2017.

More tourney announcements

After the posts in German language in the past days, let us hopefully return to the "business as usual". This time we have some tourney announcements, starting with one for a problemist who died in 2009 in a terrorist attack or school shooting, depending on what information you believe. The following announcements were sent by Vidadi Zamanov who asks to reprint them, a wish we fulfill here. Speaking of great Azerbaijanian authors, the composer Ilham Aliev, unrelated to the politician, also has recently written a book "Şahmat yaradıcılığım" which from what we understand can be ordered at bestechi@mail.ru


Mejnun Vahidov -70 MT, 2016
(27.07.1946- 30.04.2009)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing Tourney “Mejnun Vahidov-70”' memorial tournament for twomovers and threemovers (free theme).
M.Vahidov was a co-author of several themes in chess composition, like, the Azerbaijan
(Vladimirov) theme (1977), the Azerbaijanian Novotny (1981), the Bakunian Novotny (1985) and others.
Section: #2 (twomovers) and #3 (threemovers) - (free theme).
Judge: #2- Anatoli Stepochkin (Russia) and #3- Alexander Melnichuk (Russia).
Send to: abdullaev-elmar@bk.ru
Closing date: 31. 08. 2016. The award – 2016.

Sabuhi Huseynov - 65 МТ, 2016
(29.03.1951 – 12.10.2000)
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission announces an International Composing Tourney “Sabuhi Huseynov-65”' memorial tournament for twomovers (free theme).
#2 - Judge: Anatoli Stepochkin (Russia) .
Send to tournament director: Vidadi Zamanov vidadi_zamanov@mail.ru
Closing date: 31. 08. 2016. The award - 2016.

2nd Ali Tebrizi Shatranji (14th-15th century) MT, 2016
The Azerbaijan Chess Composition Commission organizes an International Tourney of
Composition for studies of the Ali Tebrizi Shatranji (14th-15th century chess player).
Theme: free. Judges:
Studies - Judge: Muradkhan Muradov (Gobustan, Azerbaijan).
H#2 - Valery Barsukov (Russia).
Send to: abdullaev-elmar@bk.ru .Studies please send PGN files.
Closing date: 31. 08. 2016. The award - 2016.

Kings & Pawns tourney of chessproblem.net

ChessProblem.net in cooperation with Yours Truly announces the 2nd TT.

 ChessProblem.net announces its second tourney. All future announcements will be posted to this topic.

Theme: Artistic King and Pawns Endgame Studies. Studies with a primary focus on promotions are unthematic. Promotions are allowed if the promoted pieces are exchanged quickly or at the end of the study. If an introduction is added where pieces other than kings and pawns are on the board, it will not be considered thematic for the tourney. Although all examples below feature thematic wrong tries (TWT), these are not necessary for the theme. There is only one section for win and draw studies; there is no separate judging. The final decision about whether an entry is thematic will rest with the judge.

Deadline: December 1, 2016.

Procedure: Participants should register at ChessProblem.net and submit original studies either via PM or via e-mail (housekeeper@chessproblem.net). Studies should be accompanied by a full solution. Limit of three entries per composer. The judge will received anonymized entries shortly after the deadline. The preliminary award should be made by March 1, 2017. (The usual period for claims will be three months following the award; if no claims are received in that period, the award will be considered final.)

Judge: Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe.

Prize: The winner will receive a specially designed prize mug, to be shipped after the awards become final.

Please see the link above for the complete announcement.

Valentin Rudenko (19.ii.1938 - 02.iv.2016)

Valentin Rudenko has passed away recently, on 2 April 2016. The grand master of chess composition was involved in bringing satellites into space, and was most likely the first chess composer who ever had an own composition in space, aboard the mission SOYUZ 9.

His life was one of the highest contribution to mankind and chess alike.

An obituary and discussion is found on the MatPlus forum.


EDIT: Here is the MT announcement:

Valentin RUDENKO Memorial Tourney

The Chess Federation of Ukraine, its Commission for Chess Composition, and the editors of The Problemist of Ukraine announce a composing tourney in memory of outstanding modern problemist Valentin Rudenko (19.02.1938 – 02.04.2016) in the following sections:

Twomovers – judge V. Dyachuk (e-mail: v.dyachuk@i.ua)

Threemovers – judge V. Kryzhanivsky (e-mail: krizha.vasil@mail.ru)

Moremovers – judge A. Karamanits (e-mail: anat.karamanits@gmail.com)

Helpmates – judge A. Semenenko (e-mail: a.semenenko@mail.ru)

Selfmates – judge Y. Gordian (e-mail: gordian37@mail.ru)

Problems are to be sent to the email address of the judge of the respective section before September 1, 2016.

The Memorial Tourney award will be published in a separate booklet and sent to the participants whose problems are included in the award. Other participants will receive an electronic version of the award.

A prize fund for the winners has been set up.

Мемориальный турнир Валентина РУДЕНКО

Федерация шахмат Украины, комиссия по шахматной композиции ФШУ и редакция журнала «Проблеміст України» объявляют турнир по составлению, посвященный памяти выдающегося проблемиста современности Валентина Руденко (19.02.1938 – 02.04.2016), в следующих разделах:

Двухходовки – судья В.Дячук (e-mail: v.dyachuk@i.ua)

Трехходовки – судья В.Крижановский (e-mail: krizha.vasil@mail.ru)

Многоходовки – судья А.Караманиц (e-mail: anat.karamanits@gmail.com)

Коопматы – судья А.Семененко (e-mail: a.semenenko@mail.ru)

Обратные маты – судья Ю.Гордиан (e-mail: gordian37@mail.ru) 

Задачи следует посылать на электронный адрес судьи соответствующего раздела до 1 сентября 2016 года.

Итоги мемориального конкурса будут изданы отдельной брошюрой и разосланы участникам, чьи произведения получат отличия. Остальным участникам будут высланы электронные версии итогов.

Для награждения победителей предусмотрен призовой фонд.

Milan Velimirović 64 Memorial Tourney (announcement)

 Milan Velimirović 64 Memorial Tourney (21.04.2015 – 21.04.2016) 

The Serbian Problem Chess Society announces Memorial tourney devoted to Grandmaster Milan Velimirović. There will be three sections in Milan’s favourite thematic fields: direct #2 and #3, without fairy elements. 

A) Single-phase #2

Judge: Barry Barnes (Great Britain).

B) Multi-phase #2 with cyclic combination named Velimirović Attack

Judge: Touw Hian Bwee (Indonesia).

C) #3 – free theme

Judge: Hans-Peter Rehm (Germany). 

With the selection of sections and judges, whose work and friendship Milan especially admired, we tried to remain faithful to his unique spirit. 

Group A covers the field Milan loved and suggested in his concept of the 7th WCCT theme, believing it would give composers many hours of pleasure. 

Group B is devoted to one of Milan’s favourite cyclic invention. Contrary to group A, it will be a real challenge for composers to compete with the small number of existing examples, all composed by Milan himself. The definition and the name of the theme were suggested by him, in the article published in Mat Plus Review Summer 2008”, pages 100-103: 

“In tries White self-invalidates two out of three thematic elements, which are almost inevitably white lines. Each try provides compensation for one invalidation so that black can utilize only the remaining one to reject the try. In this way all thematic tries contain two degrees of attack, i.e. each one is at the same time a correction and an error to be corrected.” 

Link: http://matplus.net/pub/VelimirovicAttack.pdf 

Group C represents the field where Milan produced some of his best known masterpieces. It is not devoted to cyclic concepts only, because Milan loved all kinds of attractive chess ideas. 

The closing date, April 21st 2016 will mark Milan’s 64th birthday – the milestone he found to be the most appropriate one for a chess player or composer. 

The method of entering originals for the tourney directly to the Mat Plus website (with automatic confirmation) was created by Milan (click “Originals” on the main Mat Plus Menu on the left side). It is one of his numerous sophisticated tools for the benefit of chess composition. Composers unable to use it may send their entries by e-mail to the Mat Plus administrator: borislav.gadjanski@gmail.com.

PLEASE REPRINT!

 http://matplus.net/pub/MilanVelimirovic_64_MT.pdf

WCCT 10 Announcement

The WCCT 10 has been announced in memorial of the late Uri Avner. The announcement is available on the website of the WFCC:
http://www.wfcc.ch/10th-wcct-announcement/
http://www.wfcc.ch/competitions/composing/10-wcct/

Yours Truly hopes to be able to participate again. An article on section D will be written for eg with several more studies.

The themes unfortunately can't be copied easily without breaking their markup, resulting in ugly empty lines and other issues. For the full announcement, including regulations and examples, please visit the website given above and download/open the PDF document.

Afek 64 Jubilee Tourney (31.1.2016)

The Israeli chess composition society (ICCS) announces an endgame study tourney to celebrate the 64th birthday, on 16 April 2016, of the composer and promoter of the art of the endgame study Yochanan Afek.

Theme: free

Maximum 2 entries per composer; Joint compositions are allowed.

Closing date: 31/1/2016

The award will be published in "Variantim" in mid-2016.

Total prize fund: 1400 US$. 5 money prizes: 400$, 300, 250, 200, 100 and additional 150$ value in books prizes.

Judge: Yochanan Afek.

Tourney director: Amatzia Avni

Send your original studies (diagram, detailed solutions and postal address) by e-mail (avniam@zahav.net.il) or by post (Amatzia Avni, 9 Oranim, Givaat-Shmuel 54052, Israel). Studies sent by e-mail should be in Word or PDF; an additional attached pgn file would be appreciated.

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Tourney announcement: José Mugnos MT110 2014

MT110 JOSE MUGNOS - 2014

The Union Problemistas’s Argentina of Chess announces the tournament of composition of studies MT110 José Mugnos.
Studies – Theme free – Judge: Richard Becker (USA)
Entries – not more than three per composer – send to the tourney director: Mario G. García (Argentina). Email: marioggarcia@gmail.com
Prize , honourable mentions and commendations and special nominations will be awarded. The preliminary award of the tourney will be sent to participants by e-mail and will be published on the websites-a) Unión Argentina de Problemistas de Ajedrez (UAPA) http://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar/  b)  Iuri Akobia’s  http://akobiachess.gol.ge
Closing date: 31.12.2014

[SH: This is a repost of an e-mail sent by Mario Guido Garcia. An article about José Mugnos by Joaquim Travesset can be found here, in portuguese: http://www.ajedrez365.com/2011/09/jose-mugnos-compositor-finales-ajedrez.html. Unfortunately the books about Mugnos are very expensive, so I can't add more information about the composer.]