StrateGems 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (4 issues per year)
#2: Evgney Fomichev, P.O. Box 13, Post Office, 607700 Shatki, Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia - e_fomichev13@mail.ru
#3: Rauf Aliovsadzade, 5600 Randolph St. Lincoln, NE 68510, USA - bakili97@netzero.net
#n: Richard Becker, 510 Pleasant Ave., Oregon City, OR 97045, USA - richard-becker@comcast.net
Endgame studies: Franjo Vrabec, Bläkullagatan 31C, 25457 Helsingborg, Sweden - franjo.vrabec@live.se
Helpmates: Nikola Stolev, Bukovic 3a, n. Lisice, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia - stolev@t-home.mk
Series-movers and Stalemates: Radovan M. Tomasevic, Djure Salaja 19b/4, SRB-19000 Zajecar, Serbia - rasatom@open.telekom.rs

Selfmates, Fairies: Petko A. Petkov, Janko Sakazov N 38, whod W, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria - ppetkov2702@gmail.com or pap1_petkov@yahoo.com

Retros and Proofgames: Kostas Prentos, 6924 Carmelito Loop NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113, USA - prentos@gmail.com

Judges for 2013
#2: Anatoly Vasilenko
#3: Sergey Bilyk
#n: Evgeny Fomichev
Studies: Zlatko Mihajloski
H#2: Petre Stojoski
H#3: Zoran Gavrilovski
H#n: Bosko Miloseski
Series and Stalemates: Mike Neumeier
Selfmates: Diyan Kostadinov
Fairies: Krasimir Gandev
Retros and Proofgames: Thomas Brand

Problemist Ukraïni 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (4 issues per year)
#2: Vasil Dyachuk, Mlynska str. 1, 89600, Mukachevo, Transcarpathia, Ukraine - v.dyachuk@i.ua
#3: Anatoly Karamanits, pr. Herois 32, ap.72, Dnipropetrovsk, 49106, Ukraine - anat.karamanits@gmail.com
#n: Mikhaïl Marandyuk, Chapaeva str. 25, ap. 23, Novoselitsa, Chernivtsi reg., 60300, Ukraine -
marandyuk@cv.ukrtel.net
Studies: Eduard Eilazyan, P. Popovicha str. 33a, ap. 105, Donetsk, 83056, Ukraine - edeilstudy@mail.ru
Helpmates: Yuri Bilokin, Post Box 579, Poltava, 36021, Ukraine - jvb579@meta.ua
Selfmates: Ivan Soroka, Koshica str. 4, ap.141, Lviv, 79058, Ukraine - i_soroka@yahoo.com
Fairies: Anatoly Vasilenko, pr. Pravdy 76, ap. 118, Kyiv, 04208, Ukraine - a-vasylenko@yandex.ru

Website: http://www.chess-kopyl.com.ua/ru/problemist-ukrainy/

Judges for 2013
#2: Vasil Markovtsy
#3: Valentin Rudenko
#n: Valery Kopyl
Studies: Alekseï Sochnev
Helpmates: Vladislav Nefyodov
Selfmates: Anatoly Styopochkin
Fairies: Aleksandr Bulavka

Robert Brieger memorial tourney C 31 XII 2013

For studies (4 entries per composer at a maximum)
Director: Richard Becker - richard-becker@comcast.net
Judge: C. Bill Jones
Theme: free
Award: to be published in StrateGems

Closing date: 31 December 2013

QuartzTT9 (Meinking fairyMT), C 31 XII 2013

QuartzTT9 (Meinking fairyMT)

Quartz launches a complementary fairy section and requests Parry Series of any type, with fairy pieces or/and additional fairy conditions. 
Due date is December 31, 2013.

Send please your entries to the director Dinu-Ioan Nicula by email only: tt9quartz@gmail.com

The judge will be announced.

You can find more information here : http://quartz.chessproblems.ca/pdf/38/Quartz38.pdf

Source : Paul Răican

ChessStar.com 2013 informal tourneys

ChessStar.com is a web-magazine organising annual tourneys for originals since 2009.

http://www.chessstar.com/competitions/standard/annual/

Note: In order to submit a composition for publication, you should register as a user and use the "Diagram Editor" on-line form of the site.

Judges for 2013
#2: Mikola Chernyavsky
#3: Mike Prcic
#n: Alberto Rosa Rodriges
studies: Mario Gudio Garcia

Closing date: 31 December 2013

Tehtäväniekka 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (6 issues per year)
#2, #3, #n: Mikael Grönroos, Savenottotie 10 C 8, 65280 Vaasa, Finland - mikael.gronroos@fimnet.fi
Studies: Pauli Perkonoja, Parolanpolku 12 B 20. 20360 Turku, Finland - kurka@saunalahti.fi
Helpmates: Terho Marlo, Lehmustie 5a, 01360 Vantaa, Finland - terho.marlo@hotmail.com
Selfmates: Johan Beije, Korenbloemweg 83, NL-1338 XT Almere, Netherlands - johan.beije@live.nl
Fairies and Retros: Hannu Sokka, Kastuntie 47 B 20, 20300 Turku, Finland - hannu.sokka@pp.inet.fi

Suomen Tehtäväniekat
Website: http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/st/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SuomenTehtavaniekat

Judges for 2013
#2 (2012-13): NN
#3 (2012-13): NN
#n (2012-13): NN
Studies (2011-13): Michal Hlinka
H#2, H#3, H#n (2012-13): NN
Selfmates (2012-13): Diyan Kostadinov
Fairies and retros (2012-13): NN

Julia's Fairies Informal Tourney 2013 (III)

Announcement : http://juliasfairies.com/informal-tourneys-2013/

Original Problems Published at Julia’s Fairies in September-December, 2013. Fairy problems participate in informal tourney of this period. The judge: Eric Huber.

See original problems : http://juliasfairies.com/problems/jf-2013-iii/

Dan-Constantin Gurgui-50 jubilee tourney, C 31 XII 2013

The “e4 e5″ magazine announces a formal tournament for the 50th birthday of Romanian problemist  Dan-Constantin  Gurgui.  H#2, with a free theme, no zeropositions, duplex  or fairy pieces.
Start date: January 1st.
Closing date: December 31st 2013.
Judge: Zivko Janevski, International Judge of FIDE, P.Box 163, 1480 Gevgelija, Macedonia, zivko@t-home.mk

Please send your entries to chessplayerro@yahoo.com.

The problems will be published in “e4 e5″ magazine.
All participants will receive the award by email.
Maximum number of entries per composer: 5.

Award : http://www.chessplayer.ro/files/DCGurgui-50_JT_2013.pdf

KoBulChess Informal Tourneys 2013

Announcement : http://kobulchess.com/en/tournaments/announcements/155-kobulchess-it-2013.html

Originals : http://kobulchess.com/en/problems/originals2013.html

Award : http://kobulchess.com/en/tournaments/awards/679-kobulchess-helpmates-2013.html

Componist 2012-2013 informal tourney

Componist 2012-2013

Componist pubblicherà le composizioni inviate ( concorso informale )
Direttore: Árpád Rusz ( Romania )
Giudice: da nominare.
Tema libero.
Spedire i finali artistici a Árpád Rusz: ruszarpi@gmail.com
Comunicare l'indirizzo dell'autore.
Verdetto su Componist.

(Source : Tornei Di Studi : NewsLetter ASIGC n. 24 – Aprile 2013)


Award (2015) : http://www.frsah.ro/2015/compozitie-sahista/Componist-2012-13-sectia-studii.pdf

Die Schwalbe 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (6 issues per year)
#2: Hubert Gockel, Vogelherd 15, D-72555 Metzingen, Germany - zweizueger@dieschwalbe.de
#3: Hans Gruber, Ostengasse 34, D-93047 Regensburg, Germany - dreizueger@dieschwalbe.de
#n: Hans Peter Rehm, Durlacher Weg 66, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany - mehrzueger@dieschwalbe.de
Studies: Michael Roxlau, Heergermühler Weg 52, D-13158 Berlin, Germany - studien@dieschwalbe.de
Helpmates: Silvio Baier, Pfotenhauerstrasse 72, D-01307 Dresden, Germany - hilfsmatts@dieschwalbe.de
Selfmates: Hartmut Laue, Postfach 3063, D-24029 Kiel, Germany - selbstmatts@dieschwalbe.de
Fairies: Arnold Beine, Grund 15, D-65366 Geisenheim, Germany - maerchen@dieschwalbe.de
Retros and Math: Thomas Brand, Dahlienstrasse 27, D-53332 Bornheim, Germany - retros@dieschwalbe.de

Website of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach: http://dieschwalbe.de/

Judges for 2013
#2: David Shire
#3: Martin Wessels-Behrens
#n: Stephan Eisert
Studies (2013-14): Peter Schmidt
H#2, H#3: Zivko Janevski
H#n: Wilfried Neef
Selfmates (A: S#2, S#3 and B: S#>=4): Sven Trommler
Fairies: Manfred Rittirsch
Retros: Bernd Gräfrath
Math (2013-15): Bernd Schwarzkopf

Springaren 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (4 issues per year)
#2, #3, #n: Rolf Uppström, rolf.uppstrom@springaren.se
studies: Margus Sööt, margus.soot@springaren.se
h#, s#: Kenneth Solja, kenneth.solja@gmail.com
fairies: Kjell Widlert, kjell.widlert@springaren.se

Website of the Svenska Problemschackklubben: http://www.springaren.se/

Judges for 2013
Names not announced yet

Orbit 2013 informal tourneys

Editors (4 issues per year)
h#, s#: Zivko Janevski, zivko@t-home.mk
fairies (h#<=4, h=<=4, hs#<=4, ser-h#<=15): Chris. Feather, christopher.feather@btinternet.com
Retros and proofgames: Roberto Osorio, raosorio@fibertel.com.ar

Judges for 2013
h#2: Diyan Kostadinov
h#3: Nikola Stolev
h#n: Hans Gruber
s#2, s#3: Jiri Jelinek
s#n: Valery Kopyl
fairies: Juraj Lörinc
retros: Nicolas Dupont

Award

http://kobulchess.com/images/pdf/orbit65.pdf

Croatian International Championship 2013, C 31 XII 2013

CROATIAN  CHESS  FEDERATION

ZAGREB CHESS ASSOCIATION

(Organisation of the Croatian Chess Problemist’s Association)

announce

CROATIAN INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN CHESS COMPOSITION for 2013

 

Two sections: #2-6 and H#2-6 moves

Theme: promotion in white/black piece and then follow sacrifice of the other white/black identical piece. Duplex and “zero”- positions are not permitted.

 

Zvonimir Hernitz Croat. Inter. Championship, 2013 #3                                 7+9 1. c8D! (PA) ~ 2. Df5# 1. ... e2 2. Df5+  Ke3  3. Dbxd3# 1.  ... S~ 2. Dxd5+ Kxd5 (SA) 3. Dc6# 1. ....  Lh3 2. Dxd3+ Kxd3 (SA) 3. Dc2#  2X Wh. theme presentation..

Zvonimir Hernitz Croat. Inter. Championship, 2013 H#3            2 sol.        6+10 1. Tb4 exd7 2. Kd4 d8S (PA) 3. Kxc5 (SA) Se6# 1. d1S (pa) Sxa4 2. Kd2 Sc5  3. Kc1 Sxb3 (sa)# White and black presentation. In addition 2x white switchback.

Zvonimir Hernitz Croat. Inter. Championship, 2013 H#2             2 sol.       4+5 1. a1T (pa) Txf5  (sb) 2. Ta4 Tb5# 1. a1S (pb)  Th4 2. Sb3 Txb4 (sa)# Reciprocal black presentation .

NOTE P=white promotion, p=black promotion,  S=white sacrifice, s=black sacrifice,

           A, B, ... = white piece, a, b, ... = black piece.

 

JUDGE: Zvonimir Hernitz , international judge of the FIDE

Send problems till  Dec. 31, 2013.

Address: Croatian Chess Federation, ( Ervin Sindik ) Trg Krešimira Ćosića 11, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia, or by e-mail: ervin.sindik@zg.t-com.hr

The judgement will be published till Jan. 31, 2014.

ChessProblems.ca TT5 Back-Home, C 31 XII 2013

Announcement of Back-Home Thematic Tournament (ChessProblems.ca TT5)

The 5th ChessProblems.ca Thematic Tournament requires original chess compositions employing the Back-Home fairy condition, recently invented by Nicolas Dupont and publicized on Julia's Fairies. 
Entries should be submitted to the tourney director, Nicolas Dupont, via email at tt5@chessproblems.ca. The closing date is December 31st, 2013. 

Tournament sections:
Section 1: Help and Help-Self (Judges: Vlaicu Crisan and Eric Huber
Section 2: Series-Movers (Judge: Paul Răican)
Section 3: Proof Games (Judge: Michel Caillaud)

More details and examples on http://tt5.chessproblems.ca/
PDF : http://tt5.chessproblems.ca/pdf/ChessProblems-ca-TT5.pdf
Annonce en français: http://www.france-echecs.com/article.php?art=20130630073506718

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For Award see magazine here.

POLISH CHESS FEDERATION, informal tourneys, C 31 XII 2013

Polish Chess Federation announces an informal international composing tourney in following sections:
• twomovers [#2] – judge Stefan Milewski
• threemovers [#3] – judge Henryk Grudziński
• endgames [eg] – judge Andrzej Jasik
• selfmates in 2 moves [s#2] – judge Waldemar Tura
• selfmates in 3 – 6 moves [s#3-6] – judge Eugeniusz Iwanow
• helpmates in 2-3 moves [h#2-3] – judge Piotr Murdzia.
Problems will be published on the Polish Chess Federation site.
In each group there are 3 prizes. 
Problems on diagram or in notation with the complete solution send to:
a11z@interia.pl
Deadline 31.12.2013

Schweizerische Schachzeitung Year 2013, informal tourneys

Schweizerische Schachzeitung Year 2013

2# - Judge: Mirko Degenkolbe (+2012)
3# - Judge: Andreas Nievergelt (+2012)
n# - Judge: ??

Send to: Martin Hoffmann, Neugasse 91/7, CH-8005 Zürich, Switzerland
martin.hoffmann@swisschess.ch


Website:http://www.schachbund.ch/presse/ssz.php

PROBLEM - FORUM Year 2013, informal tourneys

PROBLEM - FORUM Year 2013

2# - Judge 2013: Franz Pachl
3# - Judge 2012-2013: Hemmo Axt
n# - Judge 2013:?
sn# - Judge 2013:?
hn# - Judge 2013:?

Send to: Martin Minski m.minski@web.de

PROBLEMISTE 2013, informal tourneys

Internet magazine http://www.problemiste.fr/

Judges for 2013:
#3,#n ....................... : Antonio GAROFALO (ITA)
h#2,h#n................... : Thomas MAEDER (SUI)
s#,Feeriques.......... : Diyan KOSTADINOV (BUL)


Send your originals to Alain Biénabe admin@problemiste.com

Best Problems Year 2013, informal tourneys

Best Problems Year 2013


2# - Judge: NN
3# - Judge: Antonio Garofalo
h2#, h2= - Judge: NN
h3#, h3=, h#n moves - Judge: NN
--- s2-3# - Judge: eliminated, no selfmate.
--- hs2-3# - Judge: eliminated, no hs.
fairy - Judge: ? NN


Send to: Antonio Garofalo, Via Collodi 13, 70124 Bari, Italy antgarofalo@alice.it

SCHACH 2013 Informal tourneys

Informalturniere SCHACH 2013 (tourney announcement for 2013)

SCHACH schreibt 1-Jahresturniere aus: (SCHACH announces 1-year-tourneys for:)

#2 Hans Gruber
#3 Michael Barth
#n Mirko Degenkolbe
h# Udo Degener
s# Abdelaziz Onkoud
eg (2012/13) N.N.

mailto:udo-degener@gmx.de
post: Udo Degener, Stephensonstr. 47, D - 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Award for #3 (May 2014) : http://www.schach-udo.de/pdf/pb3_1213.pdf

Shakhmatnaya Kompozitsiya 2013 informal tourneys

Editors for originals (4 issues per year)
#2: Pavel Murashev (Павел Мурашев), 141400, Московская область, г. Химки, Юбилейный пр-т, д. 14, кв. 109, Russia - paul-mur@yandex.ru
#3, #n: Aleksandr Sygurov (Александр Сыгуров), 446480, Самарская обл., Похвистневский р-н, с. Среднее Аверкино, ул. Спортивная 214, Russia - sygurov@bk.ru
studies: Oleg Pervakov (Олег Перваков), 121471, Москва, ул. Рябиновая, д. 4, кв.63, Russia - oper60@inbox.ru
helpmates, selfmates: Valery Gurov (Валерий Гуров), 123459, Москва, Ленинский пр-т, д. 88, кор.1, кв.88, Russia - valery_gurov@mail.ru
fairies: Petko A. Petkov - ppetkov2702@gmail.com or pap1_petkov@yahoo.com
retros: Nikita Plaksin (Никита Плаксин), 127282, Москва И-282, ул. Тихомирова, 2, кв. 30, Russia.

Judges for 2013
#2: Vyacheslav Pilchenko
#3: Valery Kirillov
#n: Aleksandr Sygurov
studies: Sergei Osintsev
helpmates: Boris Shorokhov
selfmates: Valery Surkov
fairies: Petko A. Petkov
retros: Nikita Plaksin

Closing date: 1 December 2013

Pat a Mat, issue 86, 12/2013

Issue 86 : http://jurajlorinc.com/chess/PAM_PDF/PaM_86.pdf

Contains originals, PaM tourneys announcement

Alex Ettinger-90 MT, C 30 XI 2013

The Israel Chess Composition Society is announcing a composition tourney to commemorate the 90′s birthday of Alex Ettinger (1923-2005). Alex, born in Frankfurt, Germany, immigrated to Israel in 1933 and was a dedicated member of our society. Required are fairy miniatures with free theme. All types of problems are accepted but with at least one fairy condition and one fairy piece.

Judge: Michael Grushko

Entries to the director, Paz Einat (paz@pazeinat.com; 45a Moshe Levi St. Nes Ziona, 74207, Israel).

Closing date: 30 November 2013

Magyar Sakkvilág 2013, C 15 XI 2013

Magyar Sakkvilág 2013

Magyar Sakkvilág pubblicherà gli elaborati trasmessi ( concorso informale ).
Direttore: Péter Gyarmati ( Ungheria ).
Giudice: Eduard Eilazyan ( Russia ).
Tema libero.
Inviare i finali artistici a Péter Gyarmati entro il 15 novembre 2013: petergy@freemail.hu
Verdetto su Magyar Sakkvilág.

(Source : Tornei di Studi : NewsLetter ASIGC n. 24 – Aprile 2013)

Zivko Janevski-60 JT, C 15 XI 2013

Announcement : http://kobulchess.com/en/tournaments/announcements/332-zivko-janevski-60.html

Vladimir Zabunov-85 MT, C 15 XI 2013

Announcement :
 http://kobulchess.com/en/tournaments/announcements/275-zabunov-85mt.html

Award (22.03.2014) :
 http://kobulchess.com/en/tournaments/awards/515-vladimir-zabunov-award.html

MAT PLUS CHALLENGE 2012 - PAPE THEME, C 03 XI 2013

MAT PLUS CHALLENGE FOR SPRING/SUMMER 2012
 - PAPE THEME -
http://www.milanvel.net/pub/pape_tt.pdf

COMMUNICATION

There have been 157 entries for this challenge, which were available to all participants at the Mat Plus site. Milan’s intention was to publish an article including all the correct entries in Mat Plus. We have decided that it would be appropriate to eventually publish this article dedicated to the memory of Milan. Owing to the impossibility to associate each diagram to its composer, we have decided to proceed as follows:

(1) All participants are asked to kindly send again the same original problems to me, preferably in PDF format, before November 3, 2013.
(2) I will organize all the problems classified by loci, including the solutions of the problems and the name of the authors, in article format in a preliminary document.
(3) The current status of the problems is that of “unpublished”, as they are not available to an unrestricted number of people. However, we believe that the entries somehow belong to Milan, and we have thus decided to include them all in the final article. Any unmatched entry will thus be published as “anonymous.”
(4) A preliminary version of the article will be circulated in December 2013 to any person who has contacted me stating his will to add some comments to the article.
(5) The final version of the article will be published in 2014.

Please circulate this communication to anyone who may have participated in the challenge.

Joaquim Crusats,
on behalf of the composers representing the majority of entries, see the Mat Plus forum thread with title “PAPE TT (Mat Plus Challenge for Spring-Summer 2012)”.
joaquimchessproblem@gmail.com

July 28, 2013

László Ányos-81 jubilee tourney C 31 X 2013

For helpmates, helpselfmates or reflexmates in 2-6 moves with fairy conditions and/or neutral pieces.
Allowed fairy conditions: Circe, Anticirce (no other Circe variation), Andernach, Anti-Andernach, Madrasi and Isardam. Use of two or more fairy conditions is allowed.
Allowed fairy pieces: neutral pieces of the traditional orthodox pieces.

Director: László Ányos, anyos3262@gmail.com
Judge: Imre Kirchner
Award: to be published in the monthly Hungarian magazine Magyar Sakkvilág.

Closing date: 31 October 2013

JT anyos-81, C 31 X 2013