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The Last composer of Rebetico songs, Nikos Pergialis (28.02.1931 - 04.12.2019), would be pleased with today's post.Some biographical elements you may find here: https://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.com/2008/09/nikos-pergialis.htmlI had proposed in June 2016 the theme Pergialis, which I had described here: https://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.com/2016/06/proposal-for-theme-pergialis.htmlToday I present the Award (01/06/2021, Judge: Mario Guido Garcia) of an Iternational Thematic Tourney for » celý článok »

(31.12.2020) Here is the last Selfmate for year 2020 - it is by Valery Kopyl. » celý článok »

(31.12.2020) Helpmate with active sacrifices and change of functions by the famous Ukrainan tandem. » celý článok »

(31.12.2020) A Selfmate with AUW and white Phenix from the russian master of this genre.  » celý článok »

(21.12.2020) A nice helpmate from the Israeli master showing opening of lines and pin model mates.  » celý článok »

(18.11.2020) Nice fairy tanagra by Sergej Smotrov with excellent using of KoBul Kings and neutral Eagle for creating of 4 Chameleon Echo Ideal mates. » celý článok »

In chess composition there is the Fairy Chess, where we see other conditions, others pieces, other chessboards. For the question "which fairy elements are mostly used?", a statistic comes to our help, based on the about 785,000 problems that are contained in the database WinChloe by the French Christian Poisson. The statistic » celý článok »

A good article about women composers you may find at the link : https://chessbase.in/news/Women-in-the-world-of-chess-composition » celý článok »

Today we present a problem by Ioannis Garoufalidis, awarded Greek solver and composer. Condition: Because of the corona virus CoVID19 … the pieces must be kept in a distance from each other! The condition is known as Anti-ContactChess or Anti-koko. Problem-840 FEN: 8/3P2p1/8/8/8/k7/4p3/7K h#2, (2+3) twin: bKa3 to g5Ioannis Garoufalidis (GRE) original Black plays and helps White mate in two » celý článok »

We present today a well-timed problem by Nikos Mendrinos, awarded Greek solver, champion and new composer. Condition: Because of the corona virus CoVID19 … the pieces must be kept in a distance from each other! The condition is known as Anti-ContactChess or Anti-koko. Problem-839 FEN: 4k3/b7/4S3/2q4s/K7/2p2Q2/8/1R6 #2, (4+5)Nikos Mendrinos (GRE) original White plays and mates in two moves Fairy » celý článok »