54th WCCC - Composing Tourneys |
| Aug 28th:
Most of the composing TT are in the booklet, some have been left out for lack of time, they will be included as soon as possible Bulgarian Wine TT Metaxa TT Sabra TT Tzuica Rumanian Wine Sake Cachaça TT Study of the Year 2010 |
| Aug 20th:
Metaxa TT, judged by Pavlos Moutecidis for maximummer selfmates with set play (here). Matrëska TT, judged by Valery Gurov for h#2 see theme here |
| Aug 18th:
Sabra TT, judged by Menachem Witztum, for orthodox H#2 (see theme here). Urals TT, judged by Andrey Selivanov for selfmate #3-#5 (see here). Long TT, judged by Francesco Simoni for orthodox H#3 (see here). |
| Aug 17th: Champagne 2011, this year the tourney is dedicated to the memory of Alexandr Kislyak (27 XII 1938- 5 V 2010)
The Tourney is declined in 2 sections (with separate awards):
A . ProofGames B. Any other kind of Retro problems Theme: 2 Pawns orignated from the same column promote. Judge: Michel Caillaud Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Aug 11th: 23rd Spisska Borovicka is announced for all kinds of problems in 2 moves (#2, =2, H#2, S#2, etc...).
Twins, more solutions, promoted pieces and also all kinds of fairy pieces and/or conditions are allowed.
Theme: At least one „retiring defence“: A move which starts on a square adjacent to the black King but ends on a non-adjacent square. Additionally, there must be any cyclic idea (not necessary to be a Cyclone!). Judge: Peter Gvozdjak Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Aug 3rd: 4th ARVES Jenever Tourney 2011
Theme: Black and White underpromotion to Bishop Judges: Marcel Van Herck & Harold van der Heijden Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Jul 31st: 2nd Bulgarian Wine Tourney
Theme: H#2 problems with at least one Chameleon piece (type Q-S-B-R-Q). Other fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed. Prize: Bottles of bulgarian wine. Closing date: Wednesday, 24th August 2011, 17:00h Judge: Diyan Kostadinov (Bulgaria) Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Jul 27th: 9th Romanian Tzuica Tourney
Theme: Help-selfmates (hs#n) or help-selfstalemates (hs=n) with at least two phases where at least three pairs of units reciprocally exchange functions during the solution. Judges: Vlaicu Crisan & Eric Huber (Romania) Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Jul 15th: This year Sake and Cachaça TTs merged to have a single TT
Theme: SS #(=) n presenting Reversible Promotion. Neither fairy pieces nor other fairy conditions are allowed except for Maximummer. Judges: Tadashi Wakashima and Almiro Zarur The tourney is open to everybody, but only congress participants will receive the bottles. Details and examples in the announcement here |
| Jul 3rd: Thanks to Ilham Aliev who submitted the first TT in Jesi:
The tourney only for the congress participants. Prize: 100$. Judges: Ilham Aliev and Araz Almammadov (Azerbaijan). Closing date: 23.08.2011 (21.00). Details and examples in the announcement here |
| As usual there will be three official composing tourneys: two quick TTs on Sunday evening and one long TT.
All other tourneys will be announced here as soon as the information arrives. |