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update: 13-5-2019:
Arestov and Zhukov triumph in Shakhmatnaya Kompozitsiya 2018
The annual tourney of the russian chess problem periodical Shakhmatnaya Kompozitsiya saw the first and second prizes split between Pavel Arestov and Alexander Zhukov (both Russia). Arestov's study shows subtle logical play with the material RBB vs Q. In Zhukov's study White plays for stalemate already at move 4, but is not succesful until move 17. The succes of the Russian duo was emphasized by the fact the both composers won 3rd prize as well with a joint study. The tournament was judged by Sergey Osintsev who awarded 15 of 22 studies.
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Peter Krug composed a study dedicated to Timothy Whitworth:
Sad news:
At 17.4 Timothy Whitworth died.
A tribute to him you may read at the John Beasley Website.
Tournament Awards
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Tarasiuk and Garcia win the Israeli Ring Ty 2018
The 2018 tournament of the Israeli periodical Variantim, also known as the Israeli Ring Tourney, was judged by Peter Gyarmati (Hungary). He awarded 12 of 21 entries. First prize went to the Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine) and Mario Guido Garcia (Argentina) with a large scale dramatic work encompassing the whole board. Second prize by Amatzia Avni (Israel) was a study showing a theoretical draw where Black despite being a piece up cannot improve his position. Finally third prize went to the Slovakian duo Kekely and Hlinka with another theoretical draw this time ending in stalemate. There were 4 honourable mentions and 5 commendations.
Read the award as PDF in Awards Files
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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 7-5-2019.
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS
(WCCI) 2016-18
ANNOUNCEMENT
The WFCC is inviting composers of all countries to participate in the 2016-18 WCCI. The tourney director is Dmitry Turevsky (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The competition will be held according to the system used in the previous championship, with changes in the points 4, 5, 8 and 12 of the rules.
Time Schedule
- September 2018: Announcement
- January 20th 2019 12 Midnight UTC: Deadline for the submission of entries to the director
- February 1st 2019: Entries and spreadsheets for the scores sent by email to the judges
- June 1st 2019: Judges’ marks sent to the director
- June 15th 2019: Provisional results sent to the Supervising Panel and to the WFCC president
- June 30th 2019: Final results published on the WFCC site
Judges for studies:
D) Endgame studies: van der Heijden, Harold (NED), Gyarmati, Peter (HUN), Minski, Martin (GER), Nielsen, Steffen Slumstrup (DEN), Rusz, Arpad (ROU).
All details at WFCC.