http://didok2.esy.es/
As always, worth checking out (use Google Translate if necessary).
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Two masterpieces by Árpád Rusz
Sometimes studies are simply brillant! Two of those simply brillant ones are to be found on Árpád Rusz's blog:
http://ruszchessstudies.blogspot.com/2016/06/study-89.html
http://ruszchessstudies.blogspot.com/2016/06/study-93.html
http://ruszchessstudies.blogspot.com/2016/06/study-89.html
http://ruszchessstudies.blogspot.com/2016/06/study-93.html
A helpmate by me, recently published
Siegfried Hornecker
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, 10 June 2016
Helpmate in 3, two solutions
Enjoy! I hope it's not anticipated.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Viktor Kortschnoi (23.iii.1931 - 6.vi.2016)
It is with great sadness that I have to report that Viktor Kortschnoi, the former world championship contestant and player of the alleged "chess game with beyond" with Géza Maróczy, which is still under investigation, has died yesterday at 15:30h local time in Wohlen, Kanton Aargau, Switzerland.
Kortschnoi's wish he once expressed was to receive a chess set as burial object. We will hope this is taken care for.
Kortschnoi came into the international spotlight for abandoning the Soviet Union and playing several world championship matches against Anatoly Karpov in de facto 1975 (Fischer refused to defend his title so the qualification match between Kortschnoi and Karpov essentially decided the title) as well as officially 1978 and 1981, as is most likely known anyway to our readers. As a small reward for his persistence he won the senior world championship in 2006, being as of January 2007 on place 85 of the world Elo ranking list, and the oldest player in the top 100.
Yesterday the world has lost an exceptional personality. The Soviet Union has lost a great and fierce enemy, chess has lost a legend.
Kortschnoi's wish he once expressed was to receive a chess set as burial object. We will hope this is taken care for.
Kortschnoi came into the international spotlight for abandoning the Soviet Union and playing several world championship matches against Anatoly Karpov in de facto 1975 (Fischer refused to defend his title so the qualification match between Kortschnoi and Karpov essentially decided the title) as well as officially 1978 and 1981, as is most likely known anyway to our readers. As a small reward for his persistence he won the senior world championship in 2006, being as of January 2007 on place 85 of the world Elo ranking list, and the oldest player in the top 100.
Yesterday the world has lost an exceptional personality. The Soviet Union has lost a great and fierce enemy, chess has lost a legend.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Franjo Vrabec, StrateGems 2013, 2nd prize
For those participating at the 2nd tt of chessproblem.net, the following study will be interesting. It is completely thematic.
Franjo Vrabec
StrateGems 2013, 2nd prize
Win
1.Kf2! b6! 2.Ke2! Kd7 3.Kd3 Ke7 4.Ke3 Ke8! 5.Kd4! Kd8! 6.Ke4 Ke8 7.Kf5! Ke7 8.Ke5 a4 9.Kf5! Ke8! 10.Ke4! Kd8 11.Kd4 Ke8 12.Kc3! Kd7 13.Kd3!! Ke7 14.Ke3 Ke8 15.Kd4! Kd8 16.Ke4! Ke8 17.Kf5 wins
Dear Franjo, I am sure Grigoriev himself would be proud of you!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
[German] Zitat aus aktuellem Anlass
Sackdoof, feige und verklemmt
ist Erdogan, der Präsident.
Er ist der Mann, der Mädchen schlägt
und dabei Gummimasken trägt.
- Jan Böhmermann, deutscher Satiriker, "Schmähkritik", Neo Magazin Royale, 31.iii.2016
Das ist wohl der Großteil der erlaubten Passagen aus dem Gedicht über den Kurdenmörder vom Bosporus. Begrüßenswert ist, dass auch eine Passage entfernt wurde, in der Erdogan mit dem Kindermörder Joser Fritzl und dem Entführer Wolfgang Přiklopil verglichen wurde. Selbst diese beiden Schwerverbrecher müssen sich nicht derartig beleidigen lassen, dass sie mit jemandem wie Erdogan gleichgesetzt werden.
ist Erdogan, der Präsident.
Er ist der Mann, der Mädchen schlägt
und dabei Gummimasken trägt.
- Jan Böhmermann, deutscher Satiriker, "Schmähkritik", Neo Magazin Royale, 31.iii.2016
Das ist wohl der Großteil der erlaubten Passagen aus dem Gedicht über den Kurdenmörder vom Bosporus. Begrüßenswert ist, dass auch eine Passage entfernt wurde, in der Erdogan mit dem Kindermörder Joser Fritzl und dem Entführer Wolfgang Přiklopil verglichen wurde. Selbst diese beiden Schwerverbrecher müssen sich nicht derartig beleidigen lassen, dass sie mit jemandem wie Erdogan gleichgesetzt werden.
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