Awani Kumar: Celebrating 112th birth anniversary of Genrikh Kasparyan

Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparyan was a railway engineer by profession but is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of endgame studies. He was awarded the titles of International Judge of Chess Compositions in 1956 and International Grandmaster of Chess Composition in 1972, the first composer to receive this title from FIDE. He wrote several books and collections and composed about 600 studies, many on the theme of domination, winning 57 first prizes. He won the USSR Composing Championship several times. Kasparyan was also an active chess player, winning the Armenian championship ten times. He also reached the USSR Championship finals four times. Kasparyan was born on 27 February 1910 and Armenia issued a postal stamp featuring him on his birth centenary in 2010. Let us celebrate his 112th birth anniversary with some interesting tour of knight on 8×14 (= 112) board. Readers of PAT A MAT are well aware of the millennium old knight tour puzzle. The challenge is to move a knight on an empty board so that it visits all the cells only once. Figure 1 is a magic tour of knight on 8×14 board. Here sum of all the columns is 452 and that of the rows is 791.

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Skladateľské turnaje SOKŠ 2022


Slovenská organizácia kompozičného šachu vypisuje na rok 2022 dva medzinárodné turnaje v skladaní šachových skladieb a to:
1. Jubilejný turnaj Vasil Ďačuk-50 vo dvoch oddeleniach
a) mat 2. ťahom v ortodoxnom šachu (rozhodca jubilant)
b) mat 2. ťahom v exošachu, pričom sú povolené ľubovoľné exofigúry a exopodmienky (rozhodca Juraj Brabec)
Zasielacia lehota je 27. marca 2022.

 
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2. Jubilejný turnaj Zoltán Labai-80
Mat 2. ťahom v ortodoxnom šachu (rozhodca Juraj Brabec).
Zasielacia lehota je 1.10.2022.

 
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Vo všetkých troch oddeleniach budú za najlepšie skladby udelené peňažné ceny (40, 30, 20 Eur), ako aj ďalšie vecné ceny.
Zásielky do obidvoch súťaží posielajte elektronickou poštou, s označením o aký turnaj ide, na adresu usporiadateľa: Ivan Jarolín ijarolin@gmail.com.
Prosíme o propagáciu týchto turnajov.
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O. Ralík 70 JT C 19.12.2015 – vypísanie

Pri príležitosti životného jubilea Olivera Ralíka je vypísaný turnaj pre akékoľvek skladby, v ktorých ten istý kameň vytvorí v priebehu riešenia aspoň 2 výrazné geometrické obrazce. Podrobnosti v priloženom pdf súbore: Ralik 70 JT announcement 2

A jubilee tourney is announced on occasion of the 70th birthday of Oliver Ralík. It is dedicated to any compositions in which the same piece makes at least two distinctive patterns during solution. See details in the attached pdf file: Ralik 70 JT announcement 2