For a long time I was silent about the Führer, but it is time to speak out again today against a crime against women perpetrated by the FIDE! The FIDE gave the next Women World Chess Championship to the Iran. The same nation that would love to see Israel destroyed forever.
The Iran has essentially a fascist government that suppresses women and humiliates them in public by forcing them to wear a hijab (for those who don't know what an enforced hijab means: essentially a jew star like the nazis had, but for women). Thanks, Kirsan, it finally shows what you think of human rights, even better than any earlier photos with Gaddafi!
Today, Kirsan, I accuse you of supporting Islamic Nazism, both against jews and women! You overstepped the line where I will rather be killed than remain silent!
Friday, September 30, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Mark Israilevich Dvoretzky / Mark Israilewitsch Dworetzki (9.xii.1947 - 26.ix.2016)
Yesterday, the Russian super trainer Mark Dvoretzky has died in his 69th year, i..e. at 68 years old.
I had rether few connections to Dvoretzky apart from being a reader of his great masterpiece "Die Endspieluniversität", which is a great endgame book, the greatest if you can choose only one, although of course if you can afford it you will want the Chéron as well.
I had the second edition first and later bought the third edition. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, I participated with three handful of studies (some published in my own "Weltenfern" in 2013 instead). One of them only was selected for the award, and I received the German edition of the book "Studies for Practical Players" as a reward for my study.
At some point in my life I read "Positionelles Schach", a wonderful book that I lost later, where Dvoretzky explained prophylactic thinking and all aspects of positional chess, how it usually is - in my opinion - an extension of tactical chess, as more often thatn not a prophylactic move enables a defense against an opponent's plan that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Yesterday the great master has died, but let us hope that his books never will!
I had rether few connections to Dvoretzky apart from being a reader of his great masterpiece "Die Endspieluniversität", which is a great endgame book, the greatest if you can choose only one, although of course if you can afford it you will want the Chéron as well.
I had the second edition first and later bought the third edition. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, I participated with three handful of studies (some published in my own "Weltenfern" in 2013 instead). One of them only was selected for the award, and I received the German edition of the book "Studies for Practical Players" as a reward for my study.
At some point in my life I read "Positionelles Schach", a wonderful book that I lost later, where Dvoretzky explained prophylactic thinking and all aspects of positional chess, how it usually is - in my opinion - an extension of tactical chess, as more often thatn not a prophylactic move enables a defense against an opponent's plan that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Yesterday the great master has died, but let us hope that his books never will!
Saturday, September 17, 2016
How to win any chess game at the first move - but lose the full point!
http://matplus.net/start.php?px=1474101069&app=forum&act=posts&fid=prom&tid=1898&pid=15007#n15007
(1) Posted by Siegfried Hornecker [Saturday, Sep 17, 2016 10:27]; edited by Siegfried Hornecker [16-09-17]
So the simple way to win is to set up any position where you can checkmate in one move as the starting position and make that move. This ends the game, so the starting position can not be corrected anymore or the game cancelled since the game is already over (note how it says "during"). Since the opponent is late, he also won't have checked the setup of the pieces, so you have been able to set it up the way you want. If you would have Black usually, just assign White to yourself, as...
...this obviously also only applies when a game has not ended yet.
Articles 3 and 4 regard the movement of pieces, but nothing prevents you from starting from a wrongly set up board and make a legal move that immediately checkmates. This is a major oversight that I did not see in action yet, but it is a theoratical possibility to cheat in accordance with the rules.
Of course, you have one small issue...
So the arbiter can...
...increase your opponent's score to 1 and yours to 0. But you still won, even though the result shows the opposite! And that counts. Or not?
(1) Posted by Siegfried Hornecker [Saturday, Sep 17, 2016 10:27]; edited by Siegfried Hornecker [16-09-17]
Major gamebreaking oversight - winning any game in the first move if the opponent is late (and still get a 0:1 result)
QUOTE
5.1
a. The game is won by the player who has checkmated his opponent’s king. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the checkmate position was in accordance with Article 3 and Articles 4.2 – 4.7.
QUOTE
7.2
a. If during agame it is found that the initial position of the pieces was incorrect, the game shall be cancelled and a new game shall be played.
If during a game it is found that the chessboard has been placed contrary to Article 2.1, the game shall continue but the position reached must be transferred to a correctly placed chessboard.
So the simple way to win is to set up any position where you can checkmate in one move as the starting position and make that move. This ends the game, so the starting position can not be corrected anymore or the game cancelled since the game is already over (note how it says "during"). Since the opponent is late, he also won't have checked the setup of the pieces, so you have been able to set it up the way you want. If you would have Black usually, just assign White to yourself, as...
QUOTE
7.3
If a game has begun with colours reversed then it shall continue, unless the arbiter rules otherwise.
...this obviously also only applies when a game has not ended yet.
Articles 3 and 4 regard the movement of pieces, but nothing prevents you from starting from a wrongly set up board and make a legal move that immediately checkmates. This is a major oversight that I did not see in action yet, but it is a theoratical possibility to cheat in accordance with the rules.
Of course, you have one small issue...
QUOTE
11.1
The players shall take no action that will bring the game of chess into disrepute.
So the arbiter can...
QUOTE
11.6
Infraction of any part of Articles 11.1 – 11.5 shall lead to penalties in accordance with Article 12.9.
QUOTE
12.9
Options available to the arbiter concerning penalties:
warning
increasing the remaining time of the opponent
reducing the remaining time of the offending player
increasing the points scored in the game by the opponent to the maximum available for that game
reducing the points scored in the game by the offending person
declaring the game to be lost by the offending player (the arbiter shall also decide the opponent’s score)
a fine announced in advance
expulsion from the competition.
...increase your opponent's score to 1 and yours to 0. But you still won, even though the result shows the opposite! And that counts. Or not?
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Zoltan Sarosy 110
Hungarian/Canadian chess master Zoltan Sarosy turns 110 today! Born on 23 August 1906, he breaks the age record for active chess players.
Congratulations, Mr. Sarosy! May you live for another 110 years!
Congratulations, Mr. Sarosy! May you live for another 110 years!
Monday, August 8, 2016
Sergiy Didukh exposed
We have collected evidence to expose the greatest fraud in chess composition history. The winner of many awards, the logical composer Sergiy Didukh... does not exist!
We draw our conclusions based on the following evidence:
- Nobody ever has seen Sergiy Didukh. Sergiy Didukh never was at any congress.
- Sergiy Didukh writes sometimes strange things, pointing to an angry, a trolling personality.
- Nobody knows Sergiy Didukh personally.
- Sergiy Didukh based one of his pseudonyms on a professional sportsman that his brother played against.
So here we have the evidence to finally prove...
SERGIY DIDUKH DOES NOT EXIST!
On the contrary, today we are able to expose who is behind that pseudonym. It must be a table tennis enthusiast, it must be someone who lives in the Ukraine, it must be someone with internal knowledge of a certain celebrity.
There is only one possibility.
Sergiy Didukh is finally exposed. He does not exist. Nobody ever saw him. The real "Sergiy Didukh", the great chess composer, the controversial writer, is using the last name of Oleksandr Didukh! He pretends to be the brother. He must be a table tennis enthusiast, living in Ukraine. But nobody ever saw him. He lives in Feodossija. But the great Zinar would not compose like Sergiy Didukh.
So we have only one conclusion. There is only one real Sergiy Didukh. We have seen one study with a slip of mind, one study that by accident was published under the real name of the author. The author who has the studies sent to his accomplice, the professional table tennis player Oleksandr Didukh. So he does not need to live in the Ukraine to receive the studies.
The author is possibly afraid of racism, as he lived through it. He chose another country of origin. He chose to remain anonymous. But then he made a mistake.
There is only one possibility. Sergiy Didukh admitted it on his blog, but he confused the truth. Not Darius Knight is Sergiy Didukh. The truth is more inconvenient. We never received a negative reply from our inquiry to the British table tennis professional, so there can only be the truth...
Sergiy Didukh is in reality... Darius Knight!
We have a superstar of another profession in our midst, another Franz Pachl. Well played, Mr. Knight!
We draw our conclusions based on the following evidence:
- Nobody ever has seen Sergiy Didukh. Sergiy Didukh never was at any congress.
- Sergiy Didukh writes sometimes strange things, pointing to an angry, a trolling personality.
- Nobody knows Sergiy Didukh personally.
- Sergiy Didukh based one of his pseudonyms on a professional sportsman that his brother played against.
So here we have the evidence to finally prove...
SERGIY DIDUKH DOES NOT EXIST!
On the contrary, today we are able to expose who is behind that pseudonym. It must be a table tennis enthusiast, it must be someone who lives in the Ukraine, it must be someone with internal knowledge of a certain celebrity.
There is only one possibility.
Sergiy Didukh is finally exposed. He does not exist. Nobody ever saw him. The real "Sergiy Didukh", the great chess composer, the controversial writer, is using the last name of Oleksandr Didukh! He pretends to be the brother. He must be a table tennis enthusiast, living in Ukraine. But nobody ever saw him. He lives in Feodossija. But the great Zinar would not compose like Sergiy Didukh.
So we have only one conclusion. There is only one real Sergiy Didukh. We have seen one study with a slip of mind, one study that by accident was published under the real name of the author. The author who has the studies sent to his accomplice, the professional table tennis player Oleksandr Didukh. So he does not need to live in the Ukraine to receive the studies.
The author is possibly afraid of racism, as he lived through it. He chose another country of origin. He chose to remain anonymous. But then he made a mistake.
There is only one possibility. Sergiy Didukh admitted it on his blog, but he confused the truth. Not Darius Knight is Sergiy Didukh. The truth is more inconvenient. We never received a negative reply from our inquiry to the British table tennis professional, so there can only be the truth...
Sergiy Didukh is in reality... Darius Knight!
We have a superstar of another profession in our midst, another Franz Pachl. Well played, Mr. Knight!
Review: Ilham Aliev - Sahmat Yaradiciligim
While we were at the WCCC in Belgrade, we bought the book of Ilham Aliev for only 10 Euro and on top of that received a personal signature. It is titles "Sahmat Yaradiciligim" with two Azerbaijani special letters.
The book contains of around 375 pages, filled with chess diagrams and some dozens of photos. While we can't read Azerbaijani, there seems to be roughly the following content:
Chapter 0. Some favorite studies, a game, some pupils (?). Around 40 pages, 28 diagrams, many photos
Chapter 1: Studies by Ilham Aliev with the material "Kings and pawns". 76 diagrams plus more with predecessors at the solutions. Total of around 60 pages.
Chapter 2: Studies by Ilham Aliev with Malyutka material. 10 diagrams plus one in the solutions. Around 10 pages total.
Chapter 3: Miniature studies by Ilham Aliev. 56 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 30 pages total.
Chapter 4: Other studies by Ilham Aliev. 108 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 75 pages total.
Chapter 5: Selected study tourneys (possibly those judged by Ilham Aliev?). 198 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 60 pages total.
Chapters 6 to 10: Compositions by Ilham Aliev in other genres. 19 (#2) + 5 (#3) + 6 (#n) + 13 (h#) + 2 (s#) diagrams plus one at the solutions. Total around 20 pages.
Chapter 11: Antalya 2008 study solving contest. 6 diagrams, 4 pages (the last one with two photos from Ostroda).
Chapter 12: Practical play combinations by Ilham Aliev. 94 diagrams, partially complete games. Total around 40 pages.
After this follows another around 15 pages of text we don't understand, including a few photos. Then thankfully a person register is provided, showing that two studies of Yours Truly are also included (MatPlus 2008 and Olympia dünyasi 2010 "Study of the Year" with Didukh).
For the price of 10 Euro we can recommend this book that provides a complete work of Aliev. In fact, we could recommend it for double or possibly even triple that price.
The author kindly provided a photo of Yours Truly with the book on Facebook.
The book contains of around 375 pages, filled with chess diagrams and some dozens of photos. While we can't read Azerbaijani, there seems to be roughly the following content:
Chapter 0. Some favorite studies, a game, some pupils (?). Around 40 pages, 28 diagrams, many photos
Chapter 1: Studies by Ilham Aliev with the material "Kings and pawns". 76 diagrams plus more with predecessors at the solutions. Total of around 60 pages.
Chapter 2: Studies by Ilham Aliev with Malyutka material. 10 diagrams plus one in the solutions. Around 10 pages total.
Chapter 3: Miniature studies by Ilham Aliev. 56 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 30 pages total.
Chapter 4: Other studies by Ilham Aliev. 108 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 75 pages total.
Chapter 5: Selected study tourneys (possibly those judged by Ilham Aliev?). 198 diagrams plus more at the solutions. Around 60 pages total.
Chapters 6 to 10: Compositions by Ilham Aliev in other genres. 19 (#2) + 5 (#3) + 6 (#n) + 13 (h#) + 2 (s#) diagrams plus one at the solutions. Total around 20 pages.
Chapter 11: Antalya 2008 study solving contest. 6 diagrams, 4 pages (the last one with two photos from Ostroda).
Chapter 12: Practical play combinations by Ilham Aliev. 94 diagrams, partially complete games. Total around 40 pages.
After this follows another around 15 pages of text we don't understand, including a few photos. Then thankfully a person register is provided, showing that two studies of Yours Truly are also included (MatPlus 2008 and Olympia dünyasi 2010 "Study of the Year" with Didukh).
For the price of 10 Euro we can recommend this book that provides a complete work of Aliev. In fact, we could recommend it for double or possibly even triple that price.
The author kindly provided a photo of Yours Truly with the book on Facebook.
Impressions from the WCCC 2016
29 July
We arrived in the Serbian capital of New Belgrade (Novi Beograd, often and further in this article just called Belgrade) as one of the earliest WFCC participants. Upon the registration I was handed a special bag with a personalized WCCC ID and a noteblock with double-colored pen.
30 July
I used the second day, prior to the official start, to get myself acquainted with some people and the hotel "Metropol Palace" in Belgrade. Unfortunately we used the Miloseva Kuzina (with some Serbian letters) restaurant too late, missing out a few days of great breakfast (four scrambled eggs, french fries, two small blocks of cheese and three tomato slices for together 350 RSD ~ 3 EUR). So I usually would have some bakery items from across the hotel and water or when the congresses got late some coke from the kiosk nearby.
The official opening of the WCCC was held by the Serbian organizers, but was not too spectacular. There was a kind of domestic demonstrator attack on the mayor of Belgrade where someone had thrown toilet paper on him some days ago, leading him to not show up. Instead we were greeted by one of his replacements. Luckily, the prepared movies about the Serbian chess events of the past (sadly only in Srpski) and some drinks saved the evening.
31 July
Yours Truly attended the 15:00 (3:00 PM) opening session of the WFCC on the Sunday of 31 July 2016. Much to his delight, the German team, apparently bernd ellinghoven, had forwarded his request for a small change of titles giving (permanently instead of for life, in accordance with the practice of giving posthumous titles) to the WFCC. The sad news was heard that among other famous men such as the space hero Valentin Rudenko and the national German hero's nephew Wichard von Alvensleben also the never-tiring humorous publicist and prolific chess composer Fritz Hoffmann had died. The e-mail news had been sent a few hours after the departure of Yours Truly to Belgrade and so was left unread until the return, so this was a kind of shocking but mainly sadness inducing news to us.
The evening saw a "quick composing" of which we would like to (re-?)produce a good twomover we composed, but unfortunately the award is not yet online. We believe that the twomover should be in the award, unless it was found to be anticipated.
1 August
The participation of Yours Truly in the Open Solving Tournament was unsuccessful. We solved one twomover and one study, for a total of 11 points. Martin Minski's original (which we can not reproduce here for that reason) proved difficult to solve. With more time we could have solved a selfmate in three in the second round, but we spent all time looking for a point in a study that simply had none.
The Studies committee met under the good leadership of Yochanan Afek in the afternoon, whereupon unfortunately it was decided the "Study of the Year" contest was not successful to promote chess composition to the general public. Yours Truly reeived a great offer by Afek, which we accepted. If this will fall onto open ears on the necessary third party we will have a great possibility to promote endgame studies soon. More will be given on this in about a month.
In the evening lectures were held. Avni and Afek talked about studies, and Yours Truly could have been seen crying by a close observer as Afek prior to his lecture talked about his personal relationship to the dearly missed Milan to which Afek dedicated the complete WCCC. Yours Truly wants to believe that the ever kind spirit was attending the lecture himself.
2 August
The day was mostly used for activities related to personal contacts with other composers. The lectures at the evening were with the exception of that by a newly crowned Honorary Master of Chess Composition, not interesting to Yours Truly. Misha's hour long lecture where he demonstrated his solving tourney organizing program might have been a bit too long, as bernd ellinghoven canceled his lecture afterwards. It is without a doubt that the program is great, but we believe there is not a large audience that is interested in such demonstrations.
3 August
As the day before, we mostly got personal contacts up. The evening saw an OTB match of the hosts vs. guests - or rathre the WFCC against the Serbian olympia team. Who could win such an event? Well, of course the WFCC - a lucky John Nunn scored 1.5 points out of his two games! A photo of John Nunn will be uploaded later, when we got to processing them all. Of course it was also his suggestion that was the best one at the committee meeting a few days before...
4 August
Just no! With the excursion that was tiring to Yours Truly, he regret not listening to Yochanan Afek on this topic who warned against the heat in Novi Sad where Afek attended the chess olympiad 1990. Oops!
Out hero of the day was Alexander "Stop the bus!" Bulavka who was worried about Yours Truly. Thanks!
5 August
After the "business as usual", the afternoon until the late evening saw the prizes being given for tourneys etc.
One Darko Hlebec won some study awards while Yours Truly left without any. Not even for the twomover. Oh vey!
At the evening the Yacht proved to be an interesting experience, but for the future we would like clearer markings on which food is vegetarian. Some bread, cheese and potatoes saved the meal.
6 August
After the offficial end of the WCCC, the never tiring Brank Djurasevic helped Yours Truly with one request we had. The evening saw Yours Truly visiting Darko Hlebec's house, where his family provided a nice talk.
7 August
Upon leaving Belgrade, we had enough of the city, mostly due to the extreme noise and heat. The travel back home took all day since for reasons far beyond our imagination planes fly the route Munich - Belgrade, but not Berlin - Belgrade.
Youtube videos, provided by Julia Vysotska and the WFCC:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2tO_SLX1FvCV7RuSxbLhA
We arrived in the Serbian capital of New Belgrade (Novi Beograd, often and further in this article just called Belgrade) as one of the earliest WFCC participants. Upon the registration I was handed a special bag with a personalized WCCC ID and a noteblock with double-colored pen.
30 July
I used the second day, prior to the official start, to get myself acquainted with some people and the hotel "Metropol Palace" in Belgrade. Unfortunately we used the Miloseva Kuzina (with some Serbian letters) restaurant too late, missing out a few days of great breakfast (four scrambled eggs, french fries, two small blocks of cheese and three tomato slices for together 350 RSD ~ 3 EUR). So I usually would have some bakery items from across the hotel and water or when the congresses got late some coke from the kiosk nearby.
The official opening of the WCCC was held by the Serbian organizers, but was not too spectacular. There was a kind of domestic demonstrator attack on the mayor of Belgrade where someone had thrown toilet paper on him some days ago, leading him to not show up. Instead we were greeted by one of his replacements. Luckily, the prepared movies about the Serbian chess events of the past (sadly only in Srpski) and some drinks saved the evening.
31 July
Yours Truly attended the 15:00 (3:00 PM) opening session of the WFCC on the Sunday of 31 July 2016. Much to his delight, the German team, apparently bernd ellinghoven, had forwarded his request for a small change of titles giving (permanently instead of for life, in accordance with the practice of giving posthumous titles) to the WFCC. The sad news was heard that among other famous men such as the space hero Valentin Rudenko and the national German hero's nephew Wichard von Alvensleben also the never-tiring humorous publicist and prolific chess composer Fritz Hoffmann had died. The e-mail news had been sent a few hours after the departure of Yours Truly to Belgrade and so was left unread until the return, so this was a kind of shocking but mainly sadness inducing news to us.
The evening saw a "quick composing" of which we would like to (re-?)produce a good twomover we composed, but unfortunately the award is not yet online. We believe that the twomover should be in the award, unless it was found to be anticipated.
1 August
The participation of Yours Truly in the Open Solving Tournament was unsuccessful. We solved one twomover and one study, for a total of 11 points. Martin Minski's original (which we can not reproduce here for that reason) proved difficult to solve. With more time we could have solved a selfmate in three in the second round, but we spent all time looking for a point in a study that simply had none.
The Studies committee met under the good leadership of Yochanan Afek in the afternoon, whereupon unfortunately it was decided the "Study of the Year" contest was not successful to promote chess composition to the general public. Yours Truly reeived a great offer by Afek, which we accepted. If this will fall onto open ears on the necessary third party we will have a great possibility to promote endgame studies soon. More will be given on this in about a month.
In the evening lectures were held. Avni and Afek talked about studies, and Yours Truly could have been seen crying by a close observer as Afek prior to his lecture talked about his personal relationship to the dearly missed Milan to which Afek dedicated the complete WCCC. Yours Truly wants to believe that the ever kind spirit was attending the lecture himself.
2 August
The day was mostly used for activities related to personal contacts with other composers. The lectures at the evening were with the exception of that by a newly crowned Honorary Master of Chess Composition, not interesting to Yours Truly. Misha's hour long lecture where he demonstrated his solving tourney organizing program might have been a bit too long, as bernd ellinghoven canceled his lecture afterwards. It is without a doubt that the program is great, but we believe there is not a large audience that is interested in such demonstrations.
3 August
As the day before, we mostly got personal contacts up. The evening saw an OTB match of the hosts vs. guests - or rathre the WFCC against the Serbian olympia team. Who could win such an event? Well, of course the WFCC - a lucky John Nunn scored 1.5 points out of his two games! A photo of John Nunn will be uploaded later, when we got to processing them all. Of course it was also his suggestion that was the best one at the committee meeting a few days before...
4 August
Just no! With the excursion that was tiring to Yours Truly, he regret not listening to Yochanan Afek on this topic who warned against the heat in Novi Sad where Afek attended the chess olympiad 1990. Oops!
Out hero of the day was Alexander "Stop the bus!" Bulavka who was worried about Yours Truly. Thanks!
5 August
After the "business as usual", the afternoon until the late evening saw the prizes being given for tourneys etc.
One Darko Hlebec won some study awards while Yours Truly left without any. Not even for the twomover. Oh vey!
At the evening the Yacht proved to be an interesting experience, but for the future we would like clearer markings on which food is vegetarian. Some bread, cheese and potatoes saved the meal.
6 August
After the offficial end of the WCCC, the never tiring Brank Djurasevic helped Yours Truly with one request we had. The evening saw Yours Truly visiting Darko Hlebec's house, where his family provided a nice talk.
7 August
Upon leaving Belgrade, we had enough of the city, mostly due to the extreme noise and heat. The travel back home took all day since for reasons far beyond our imagination planes fly the route Munich - Belgrade, but not Berlin - Belgrade.
Youtube videos, provided by Julia Vysotska and the WFCC:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2tO_SLX1FvCV7RuSxbLhA
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