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Finnish Chess Solving Championship 2020 | 6th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 18 | Winner: Aleksey Popov (RUS) ahead of Maksim Romanov (RUS), Kari Karhunen (FIN – Finnish champion), Dolf Wissmann (NED) and Terho Marlo (FIN) Average rating of top ten solvers: 2236.23 | WSC category: 9Top 5 » celý článok »

Announcement Munich Fairy Chess Tourney 2020 h#2 Point Reflection The mpk-Blätter announce the Munich Fairy Tourney 2020 in two sections: A) h#2 with the fairy condition Point Reflection B) h#2 with the fairy condition Point Reflection plus one of the conditions Circe or Anticirce The theme is free. Fairy » celý článok »

Quick Composing TT-238 by SuperProblem Tourney name: “Full-length reflex defense“Stipulation: r#n (n>=3)Theme: required to compose Reflexmate in 3-n moves with: – full-length threat, i. e. with the threat that ends with a mate to White King on n-th Black move exactly; – at least one “full-length reflex defense”, i. e. with » celý článok »

Final Award in Quick Composing TT-232 “Dear chess friends! The Final Award in TT-232 (…and now it's time for half-neutrals!; #2, fairies) has been published. There are no changes compared to the provisional award. Please, check the correctness of names, positions and solutions. We thank all participants of the tourney and congratulate the Prize » celý článok »

Das Heft 301 der Schwalbe ist verschickt worden. » celý článok »

(08.02.2020) New fantastic fairy original by Franz Pachl! » celý článok »

“Now we have the completed preliminary results of the ISC 2020. The reports of the Solving Tournament Manager (STM): Preliminary results Cat.1 | Preliminary results Cat.2 | Preliminary results Cat.3 This year we had 885 solvers (cat-1 202, cat-2 241, cat-3 442) from 47 countries and 42 tournaments in 31 countries. Thank » celý článok »

RGSU-Cup 2020 (3rd Alexander Pochinok Memorial Tourney) | 5th tournament of World Solving Cup 2019/2020: Participants: 32 | Winner: Danila Pavlov (RUS) ahead of Aleksey Popov (RUS), Ural Hasanov (RUS), Mihail Ganzhin (RUS) and Danila Moiseev (RUS) 13 years old Ural Hasanov (RUS) with first FM and IM norm! Mihail » celý článok »

Original Problems JF-2020/I February, 2020 The judge of JF-2020/I: Eric Huber. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2019-2020: Vlaicu Crișan. Coming soon: Sergei Shumeiko, Geoff Foster, Anatoly Stepochkin, Seetharaman Kalyan, Vitaly Medintsev – I'm sorry for being slow! Will try to publish all the next week! All previously published problems » celý článok »

This year we have nearly 900 solvers in 31 countries who participated in the 16th ISC. This is the preliminary TOP10 result: Pl. Name Country Pts Time 1 Voigt GER 60 232 2 Piorun POL 58,75 210 3 Viktorov RUS 58 224 4 Van Beers BEL 56,75 210 5 Tummes GER 56,75 230 6 Nunn GBR 56,25 192 7 Solovchuk UKR 55,75 214 8 Zude GER 55,75 216 9 Murdzia POL 53,75 237 10 Limontas LTU 53,75 240 10 Sidiropoulos GRE 53,75 240 - Axel Steinbrink, Central controller of ISC 2020 » celý článok »