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Jaroslav Stun passed away… With a deep condolences to family and friends Dear Jaroslav’s colleague and friend, It is with deep sorrow and sense of loss in my heart when I write these lines. However, as his colleague and friend, I wanted to let you know that my father has recently, shortly before » celý článok »

ANDA FAIRY PLANET No.3 by Petko A. Petkov (included in the Articles sec.) The worldwide viral pandemic turned out to be much stronger than my plans for the regular release of ANDA FAIRY PLANET and the publication of results from the international DANKA PETKOVA 100 MT, which aroused great interest – I received over 60 originals » celý článok »

17th International Solving Contest (ISC) 24th January 2021: referring to the post from February 5, 2021: The presentation page of ISC 2021 Results with a gallery of participants is ready now! With a gratitude to ISC 2021 Central Controllers, Axel Steinbrink & Luc Palmans! » celý článok »

Composers are welcome to take part in the 9th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2021 ! (the Regulations are published on the page COMPOSING COMPETITIONS) The Director of the tournament is Juri Bazlov (Russia). The sections are:      A. Twomovers – Judge: Vasil Dyachuk (Ukraine)      B. Threemovers – Judge: C.G.S. Narayanan (India)      C. Moremovers – Judge: Mark Erenburg (Israel)      D. Endgame studies – Judge: Oleg Pervakov (Russia)      E. Helpmates » celý článok »

As most of the scheduled solving tournaments have been canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Presidium agreed with the solving committee’s suggestion to cancel the current 2020-21 cycle of the World Solving Cup and only restart a new cycle after the next congress or after a new » celý článok »

  PDF   Nos ha preparado Pedro Cañizares, en esta ocasión, una selección de problemas relacionados con la subpromoción en torre. Gyula NEUKOMMConcurso Húngaro 19241er PremioWhite Bc8 Bf8 Pd7 Rg7 Sd6 Re4 Kd3 » celý článok »

JF Original Problems | February 2021 The judge of JF-2021: not appointed yet. The judge of Retro & PG problems 2021-2022: not appointed yet.  Dear authors, I’m very sorry for a long delay! Working overtime in my office, enjoying financial audit, annual report and related issues   Now slowly getting back to normal life, feeling » celý článok »

Click to read the article in PDF, 5 pages Günther Weeth (1935-2020) himself had prepared this translation of his article published in Die Schwalbe 306-2/2020. p.821 ff. in November 2020 in German language. We have made some small adaptions replacing examples 5&9 with new versions as the Schwalbe-originals had turned out » celý článok »

Das Heft 307 der Schwalbe ist verschickt worden. » celý článok »

17th International Solving Contest (ISC) 24th January 2021 This year the ISC suffered under the circumstances of the Corona-pandemic. In many countries it was not possible to organize a tournament. But not only the pandemic led to less tournaments and solvers but also very deep temperatures in Siberia (-47°C in Nizhnevartovsk) » celý článok »