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Results of the János Mikitovics 70 JT
The tourney celebrating the 70th birthday of János Mikitovics was unlike most others study tournaments as the
participating composers were also the judges. The tournaments was split into a win and a
draw section, and each participant evaluated the studies in his own section,
using a scale from 0.5 to 5.0. Director was János Mikitovics himself. All in all, 51 studies competed.
Winner of the win section: Oleg Pervakov, Russia
Winner of the draw section: Yuri Bazlov, Russia
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A new issue available of the Argentinian magazine:
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In the UAPA 9th 2019 - Iriarte Memorial ty with 3 sections, Oleg Pervakov wins the thematic section.
In the win section the victory is split between Andrzej Jasik and a co-study by Arpad Rusz and Pavel Arestov.
In the draw section the winner is: Valery Kalashnikov.
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The December 2019 issue of the Israelian magazine Variamtim with an interesting study article by Gady Costeff.
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Dear chessfriends,
The ARVES solving tourney 2019 was the 10th and last edition of a fine tradition.
The faithful tournament arbiter Luc Palmans and myself have taken this decision sharing the feeling that this would be the moment from personal reasons
and in view of the lack of further financial resources.
To conclude this meaningful chapter for us I wish to thank all those who kindly contributed to its success:
First and foremost our devoted arbiter Luc Palmans, who selected and tested the studies, prepared the paper work and skilfully judged all 10 editions;
All distinguished composers who provided their fine original entries;
0ur photographers Harry Gielen and to Rene Olthof for helping to documentate and save the precious moments and the finest memories;
To the boards of ARVES and Tata Steel chess and Jurgen Stigter for their substantial support.
Last but not least I would like to thank you all dear participants and to wish you a happy new year and Lots of success in your future challenges!
Best regards, Yochanan Afek , Tournament director.
Addition by Luc Palmans:
Ward Stoffelen was arbiter of the first edition.
I participated at the first edition, finished last, and decided it was time for a career switch.
Thanks to all the participants and supporters of these 10 fine editions.
Of course thanks to Yochanan, who doesn't stop to promote our art.
Best wishes to everybody for the next year.
Arves Solving contests statistics
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Vladislav Tarasiuk - wins the 22nd Championship of Ukraine.
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Results of Sinfonie Scacchistiche 2017-2018
The 2017-2018 informal study tournament of the Italian problem magazine Sinfonie Scacchistiche were split into 3 sections:
In the win section (A1), the honours were shared between a tactical study by the German-Danish duo Martin Minski and Steffen Nielsen and the Pole Andrzrej Jasik.
Another win section with midboard mates (A2) was established by the judge, as he discovered that a large portion of the submitted studies fullfilled this theme.
Here the trio Bizyagin Buyannemekh (Mongolia) Michael Hlinka (Slovakia) and Mario García (Argentina) were succesful.
Finally, in the draw section (A3) Pavel Arestov won first prize with a logical study.
The tournament was judged by Michael Roxlau of Germany who evaluated a total of 59 studies. Sinfonie Scacchistische 2017-2018
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Siegfried Hornecker, Martin Minski and Hauke Reddmann won the Moscow 2019 ty with a nice miniature!
Can you solve it? White plays and wins.
You also can find the solution in the Moscow 2019 PDF on the Awards Files files page.
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Study commented by GM Pablo Ricardi
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Pavel Arestov wins the 5th FRME 2019 tournament.
Second Prize winners are Amatzia Avni and Martin Minski.
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Many new tournaments announced last week: Tournament Calendar
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EG 218 issued
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Avni and Osintsev win Gravura 2019 - Pervakov wins first ever superprize
The study section of the annual cross genre Gravura tournament, requiring problems with 10 pieces or less, saw 27 studies compete.
The judge Igor Agapov (Russia) awarded 15 studies and gave first prize to a cowork by Amatzia Avni (Israel) and Sergei Osintsev (Russia),
a tactical study with two surprise corner moves: 3. Rh8! and 8. Qa8.
Second prize went to Steffen Nielsen (Denmark)
and third prize to Mikhail Gromov and Oleg Pervakov (both Russia).
Pervakov was also winner of the first ever "Superprize", an apparently new concept in the world of studies.
In his study, the pieces at one point forms a Kyrillic "G" (Г) for Gravura.
The award in Russian, including the other sections of the tourney can be found here.
German trio triumphs in Moscow Tournament
The annual Moscow Tournament attracted 25 studies of which 7 were awarded by judge Evgenij Kopylov.
A beautiful miniature by Siegfried Hornecker, Martin Minski and Hauke Reddmann (all Germany)
won first prize ahead of Marcel Dore (France) and Mikhail Gromov/Oleg Pervakov (Russia).
Read the full award (in Russian) here.
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Final award has some updates in the UAPA 7th 2018 studies: Caputto-95 JT 2018 UAPA 7th
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A new book issued by Sergei Tkachenko:
The book contains almost 400 pages and is about the chess career of Yakov Vilner who lived mostly in Odessa, Ukraine and became only 31 years old.
He is the one who helped Alexander Alekhine to escape the death penalty and to leave Russia in the rural times of 1919.
The first part of the book is about his career as a chessplayer;
The second half is about all his compositions (93) which are mainly all kind of Problems.
The book contains a lot of interesting history with many beautiful pictures.
The games and compositions are extensively commented by Sergei Tkachenko
and with the compositions other examples with the same theme (of other composers) are added.
The English translation is very good.
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A new book : An English edited version of De Koning and De Koningin in one volume.
Translation by: Yochanan Afek.
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This book now on the ECF Book of the year 2019 shortlist !
Or to be found on this website:
The leading publishing house Quality Chess has just released a new title by Yochanan Afek
Practical Chess Beauty
Summing up a creative career of over 50 years the new hardcover book introduces in 464 pages
Yochanan’s selected endgame studies, games and fragments, as well as bites from his problems in other genres all presented in thematic chapters.
The book is available in online chess shops and on the publisher’s website also in a digital version from Forward Chess.
Look it up here:
Author Yochanan Afek with Jan Timman (left) and the new book.
Who won the bottle of Jenever in the quick composing tournament Arves 12th Jenever 2019 ?
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Sad news: Benko, Pal 1928-2019 died at the age of 91.
At Chess.com you may read more about his great chess career.
In Memory of Pal Benko by Vladimir Samilo
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Martin Minski with Steffen Nielsen win the Phenix 2018 tournament.
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Results and report of the 4th Youth Chess Composing Challenge.
The study section of the Youth Chess Composing Challenge 2019 was won by American Christopher Yoo
in front of Andrii Sergiienko, Ukraine, who secured both 2nd and 3rd place.
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Gromov, Pervakov and Sumbatyan win the
Vladimir Bron 110 MT 2019
33 compositions competed in the tournament in memory of Vladimir Bron.
An epic study by the Russian trio Gromov, Pervakov and Sumbatyan was succesful
in front of another tactical cowork by Martin Minski (Germany) and Steffen Nielsen (Denmark).
Third and fourth place were shared between Yuri Bazlov (Russia)
and yet another cooperation by Alexander Zhukov and Vasily Lebedev (both Russia).
Even the judging was a cowork by Sergey Osintsev (Russia) and Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine).
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Peter Krug & Mario Garcia win the Springaren 2018 tournament
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Ivanna Infantozzi supplied new information and nice pictures about her grandfather: Infantozzi, Julio 1916-1991
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Magazine EG 217 is issued.
Contents and more to replay.
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In four sections the winners of the UAPA 8th 2019 Foguelman 95 MT are:
Richard Becker, Peter Krug & Mario Garcia, Jan Timman & Mario Garcia and Peter Krug.
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Chessfriend and Clubmate Brent Burg
(not family of Twan Burg)
did show this bold position (at the Chessclub Dubbelschaak97)
which has only one solution and is hard to find.
May be not good enough for a prize winner, but anyway an endgamestudy !
Specially at the first move white has many options.
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Peter Krug meets Martin Minski 2019
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Andrzej Jasik (win section) and Jan Timman (draw section)
win the Japanese magazine tournament: Problem Paradise 2018
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Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen and Martin Minski win the Romanian tournament Bucovina 100 Years Cup 2018.
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New book by Sergei Tkachenko:
100 studies with just bishop and knight.
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Dolf Wissmann has made an accurate summary with the results of the Arves Solving contests organized since 1995:
Arves Solving contests statistics
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Russian Oleg Pervakov
is the old and new world champion
of endgame studies.
Congratulations!!
The scores of the studies section of the 2016-2018 WCCI have been released, securing Pervakov the honours for the fourth time, this time scoring 42,5 points.
Compared to the last cycle where Pervakov won with 5,5 points' lead,
the race this time around was much closer.
Winning silver is Martin Minski (Germany) with 41,25 points
followed by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark) with 40,5
and Sergey Didukh (Ukraine) close behind in fourth with 40.
The judges of the championship were Harold van der Heijden (The Netherlands),
Martin Minski (Germany), Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark),
Peter Gyarmati (Hungary) and Arpad Rusz (Romania). 40 composers competed for the title.
Studies scoring more than 8 (of 12) points in the WCCI automatically qualify for the FIDE Album.
There were 65 such studies, including all six studies by the top 6 composers.
Replay the judged studies here: World championship 2016-2018
All scores and studies are available at the
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Jan Timman wins the Pal Benko 90 Jubilee Tournament 2019.
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Amos Gilboa and Yochanan Afek win the Velimir Kalandadze MT 2019
A theme tourney for rook studies was held by the the Chess Composition Committee of the Georgian Chess Federation.
43 studies competed.
The judge David Gurgenidze awarded 19 of them, including 5 prizes.
The tournament was a success for the Israeli duo Amos Gilboa and Yochanan Afek
presenting a miniature with several precise rook moves culminating in a midboard stalemate.
The following prizes were won by Luis Miguel Gonzalez (Spain), Oleg Pervakov (Russia),
Steffen Nielsen (Denmark) and Andrii Sergiienko/Vladimir Samilo (Ukraine).
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Wladimir Kuzmiczew of Russia wins the Polish Chess Federation 2018 tournament.
NEW: Replayable studies now available: Polish Chess Federation 2018
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Sadly Dutch composer Balemans, Teun 1951-2019 had died last April.
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Sergey Didukh wins the FIDE World Cup 2019
38 of the world's top composers competed in one of the most prestigious events of the year, the FIDE World Cup. Judge Tarasiuk (Ukraine) awarded 10 of the studies. The winner was Ukrainian Sergey Didukh, who presented two perfectly matched sacrificial main lines. Both second and third prizes were awarded to purely tactical studies. Martin Minski (Germany) secured second prize with a study showing both subtle foresight and an array of sacrifices. In third prize 12 year old Christopher Yoo (USA) once again showed his talent with mutual queen sacrifices and other tactics. The awarded studies can be replayed here:
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Tournament Awards
Please send new awards (if possible PDF and PGN) to
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S.Hornecker, M.Minski and Reddmann win the Moscow 2019 ty with a nice miniature.
2nd: M. Dore; 3rd: Gromov and O.Pervakov
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Preliminary award Lubos Kekely 60 Jubilee Tournament available as PDF.
Winners are Igor Yarmanov and A.Zhokiv with V. Lebedev.
PDF see Awards Files.
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Pavel Arestov wins the 5th FRME 2019 tournament.
Second prize winners Avni with Martin Minski.
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Martin Minski with Steffen Nielsen win the Phenix 2018 tournament.
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Gromov, Pervakov and Sumbatyan win the Vladimir Bron-110 MT 2019
33 compositions competed in the tournament in memory of Vladimir Bron.
An epic study by the Russian trio Gromov, Pervakov and Sumbatyan was succesful
in front of another tactical cowork by Martin Minski (Germany) and Steffen Nielsen (Denmark).
Third and fourth place were shared betweent Yuri Bazlov (Russian)
and yet another cooperation by Alexander Zhukov and Vasily Lebedev (both Russia).
Even the judging was a cowork by Sergey Osintsev (Russia) and Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine).
You may replay the studies here: Bron 110 MT 2019
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In four sections the winners of the UAPA 8th 2019 Foguelman 95 MT are:
Richard Becker, Peter Krug & Mario Garcia, Jan Timman & Mario Garcia and Peter Krug.
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Andrzej Jasik and Jan Timman win the Japanese magazine tournament: Problem Paradise 2018.
Studies to replay: Problem Paradise 2018
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Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen and Martin Minski win the Romanian tournament Bucovina 100 Years Cup 2018.
At the website of e4-e5, from page 696 to 698 you find the result in PDF.
Studies to replay: e4-e5 100 Years Cup 2018
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Jan Timman wins the Pal Benko 90 Jubilee Tournament.
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Amos Gilboa and Yochanan Afek win the Velimir Kalandadze Memorial Ty 2019
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Sergey Didukh winner of the 7th FIDE World Cup 2019 !
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Tournament Calender.
On this page a calender of all known Endgame study tournaments which are running with information:
Also a very good page to check tournament announcements is on UAPA: Informal Tournaments, Formal Tournaments.
Another good calendar for study tournaments is chess-compose blogspot.
Latest update on 10-1-2020.
EG 2020-2021
EG, the only periodical exclusively devoted to endgame studies, announces an informal tourney for original studies.
The studies and the award will be published in EG.
You are strongly urged to only send your best and most creative works.
The original’s editor will only select very good studies for publication.
Please send your originals in PGN-format to the editor Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The judge for the 2020-2021 tourney is Yochanan Afek.
Dansk Skakproblem Klub (The Danish Chess Problem Society) announces a formal study tournament,
celebrating the 45th birthday of Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen.
You are invited to participate with your best and most creative works.
Theme: Free
Closing date: May 20th 2020
Judge: The jubilee
The judge favours clear, solver-friendly studies without excessive analytical sidelines.
Please submit your studies (no more than 3 per composer including joint compositions) in PGN format totournament director Bjørn Enemark at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The provisional award will be made public on August 13th 2020.
6th Composing Tourney of FRME, 2020
The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 6th Composing Tourney in four 8 sections:
Twomovers(#2)– Judge:MikhailKhramcevich (Belarus) Send to tournament director: Youness Ben Jelloun (Marocco) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Threemovers(#3)- Judge:Oleg Efrosinin (Russia)
Moremovers(#N) –Judge:Valery Kirillov (Russia)
Studies(+;=) Judge:Yochanan Afek (Israel)
Selfmates(S#)-Judge:Valery Kopyl (Ukraine)Send to tournament director: Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan)E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Helpmates –H#2 Judge:Ladislav Packa (Slovakia)
Helpmates H#2,5-3 Judge: Kenneth Solja (Finland)
Helpmates-H#3.5-N Judge:Hans Gruber (Germany) Send to tournament director: Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.Send problems and studies in format PDF.
Closing date: 30.09. 2020.
The award –2020 All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website:http://frme.cf/
UAPA 11th – 2020
11th INTERNATIONAL INTERNET TOURNAMENT (UAPA) -2020
Section A : Thematic – Domination – Slogan : Win –
A piece minor capture to another piece minor
In this section : In the initial position, may be presented with additional pieces
Judge : Bizya Buyannemekh (Mongolia)
Section B: Theme: Free
B.1. Studies Win – Judge: GM Petr Kiryakov (Siberia-Russia)
B.2. Studies Draw- Judge: Vladimir Neistadt (Siberia-Russia)
Entries : not more than three per composer (in each section)
– Send studies to: Sebastian Palomo torneo@problemistasajedrez.
– All selected original studies will be posted periodically on the UAPA website: http://www.
– Prizes, honourable, mentions, commendations and special nominations will be awarded.
- The provisional award will be issued in July 2020, will be available in the same website and will be sent to all participants by e-mail.
– Closing date 30.04 2.020
MAGAZINE «64» – 2020
Informal international composing tourney in following sections:
# 2, # 3, #n (judge: A. Kuzovkov),
studies (judge: Oleg Pervakov).
Section winners are awarded a yearly subscription to a magazine
- Entries should be sent to
Director – A. Kuzovkov– e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Closing date: 01.11.2020 –
PROBLEM PARADISE (JAPAN) 2020
Studies, informal tourney, no set theme
– Judge: Mario G. García (Argentina)
- Entries should be sent to: Hiroshi Manabe, Mita 5-7-12-805, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073, Japan E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ';document.getElementById('cloak5880f25bd466adcf13f7d5caac2b2f0a').innerHTML += ''+addy_text5880f25bd466adcf13f7d5caac2b2f0a+'<\/a>';
— Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.
- The award will be sent to participants by e-mail.
– Closing date: 31th October 2020 –
Second TT FREM, 2020.
The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 2nd TT FRME:
Section D)
Endgame studies Theme: Double Sacrifice. During the solution, a White minor piece (bishop or knight) moves
to a square where it can be captured by at least two of the opponent's pieces.
Judge: Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen (Denmark)
Send to tournament director Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded. Send problems in format PDF.
Closing date: 15. 08. 2020. The award – 2020
ll received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website: http://frme.cf/
judge Helmut Waelzel.
Theme free
Razumenko Memorial tournament 2019
The Viktor Alekseyevich Razumenko MT (18.02.1937-10.02.2019)
Theme free
Judge: Alexey Popov
Closing date: 15.11.2019
send studies to Yakov Rossomakho : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or postal address: Yakov Rossomakho, Ordinarnaja 12, kv.29, Sankt Peterburg, 197136 Russia
100 euro for the 1st prize and books on chess composition or Albums FIDE.
All participants will receive award of this tournament.
Mikitovics 70 Jubilee tournament
The Hungarian Chess Composers’ website (www.magyarsakkszerzok.hu) announces an international jubilee tourney on the occasion of
the 70th birthday of János Mikitovics (born 18. 7. 1949),
to the memory of the Attila Schneider international chess master.
-The formal tourney is announced for (win and draw sections) studies with free theme and the judges, using Attila Schneider’s Evaluation Method, will be the participant composers.
The entries should be sent by e-mail to the address of tourney director János Mikitovics: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. (If possible in pgn, but also the word is good.)
–Closing date: 15th October 2019.
We will publish the provisional award on 15th January 2020 in the Hungarian website, UAPA & ARVES, and sending it to all participants via email.
-The double Hungarian champion, Schneider Attila’s used Evaluation Method is as follows (see ChessClinic’s tourney 2001_2002: winner Pal Benko):
The authors will receive serially numbered anonymous diagrams with solutions after the deadline for submission and from 0 to 5 you can score your competitors’ work. Half points are also possible (0,5; 1,5; etc).
The points given to each other will be summed up.
The author (or co-authors) wins, who the most points get. Of course the participants are not scoring themselves.
-Help for the judges: all authors will also receive an Excel table, in which only the scores must be entered and the completed table returned to the director.
–Prize pool in the two sections jointly: USD 1000.