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26.03.2020
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Gurgenidze and Minski win Pat a Mat 2018/19
The latest biennial tournament of the Slovakian magazine Pat a Mat saw 22 studies compete.
Judge Emil Vlasak awarded first prize to the Georgian-German duo Martin Minski and David Gurgenidze who presented a sharp rook endgame.
Pavel Arestov (Russia) and Daniel Keith (France) won second prize in front of Peter Krug from Austria (3rd prize) and Arpad Rusz from Romania (special prize).
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Grandmasters triumph in 64-Shakhmatnoe Obozrenie 2019
The 2019 study tournament of the famous Russian chess magazine Shakhmatnoe Obozrenie, best known as simply "64",
was won by Yochanan Afek (The Netherlands) and Oleg Pervakov (Russia).
The two grandmasters of composition presented a tactical struggle with black and white counterblows.
A special prize was awarded to Arpad Rush (Romania) for a malyutka study featuring the fight of rook against two black pawns.
The tournaments was judged by Pavel Arestov (Russia).
64 Shakhmatnoye Obozrenye 2019
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A new issue available of the Argentinian magazine:
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Pervakov and Stavrietsky win Borodavkin 50 JT
A tournament to celebrate the 50th birthday of Sergei Borodavkin saw the triumph of an epic study by the Russian duo Pervakov/Stavrietsky.
On a total of 14(!) occasions White refuses to capture the Black queen.
Mario Micaloni and Arpad Rusz (Romania) presented a deep logical bishop ending to secure second place,
while a special prize was awarded to Pavel Arestov's (Russia) study with a rook battling four Black pawns to secure the draw.
The judge Vladislav Tarasiuk evaluated a total of 25 studies.
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Rusz and Kiryakov win Shakhmatnaya Kompositzia 2019
The annual study competition of the Russian periodical Shakhmatnaya Kompositzia saw 26 works competing for the honors.
Judge Alexrandr Stavrietsky gave three prizes.
The top spot was shared between Arpad Rusz (Romania) and Petr Kiryakov (Russia), while Steffen Nielsen (Denmark) won third prize.
We have two studies so far to show you:
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Krug, Peter 1966 is the first prize winner for the Win section and
Michal Hlinka with Lubos Kekely are the winners of the Draw-section
of the Československý šach 2019 tournament.
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Nielsen wins ChessStar 2019
The 2019 informal study tournament of the ChessStar website was won by Steffen Nielsen (Denmark)
with a study combining a checkless Prokeš (5. Ra7!) with a logical try (5. Ra6+?)) where the Prokeš happens with check.
Second place was secured by Jan Timman (The Netherlands) and Mario Guido Garcia (Argentina).
Their study features eventful counterplay by Black culminating in a positional draw despite Black being a rook, bishop and two pawns up.
Third place saw another joint study by Nielsen (Denmark) and Minski (Germany), the star move being 2. Re8!! after which White's pawns become unstoppable.
The tournament was judged by Peter Gyarmati, who evaluated a total of 25 studies. Replay: ChessStar 2019
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New issue EG219 available:
The contents.
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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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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 Variantim with an interesting study article by Gady Costeff.
PDF (Variantim_Dec_79_2019) to download.
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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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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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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
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 31-3-2020.
44th World Chess Olympiad of 2020
The All-Russian Public Organization “The Chess Federation of Russia” (CFR) and, at the request of the CFR, the Commission for Chess Composition (CCC) announce an international chess composing tournament dedicated to the 44th World Chess Olympiad of 2020.
The chess composing tournament will be conducted in the following eight sections: twomovers; threemovers; moremovers; endgame studies; helpmates; selfmates in 2-12 moves; fairy compositions; retros and proofgames.
The number of entries from one author in a section must not exceed two.
Moreover, only one individual composition will be allowed, i.e. one author can maximally submit oneindividual and one joint composition or two joint entries.
The number of co-authors of collective compositions is not limited.
All compositions are to be sent by email to the Executive Director of the tournament Vitaliy Medintsev, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., no later than May 10, 2020.
All participants are asked to present their entries not only on diagrams but also in FEN notation.
Information on the tournament, including the award, will be posted on the CFR website: https://ruchess.ru/.
The judges are:
Twomovers – V.Markovtsiy (Ukraine),
Threemovers – V. Kirillov (Russia),
Moremovers – V. Volchek (Belarus),
Endgame studies – M. Hlinka (Slovakia),
Helpmates – B. Shorokhov (Russia),
Selfmates in 2-12moves – V. Kopyl (Ukraine),
Fairies – P. Petkov (Bulgaria), Retros – V. Crisan (Romania).
Additional information on the Fairies section from the judge P. Petkov: 1.All types of fairy stipulations are allowed. There are no restrictions on the use of fairy pieces and conditions. 2. Only computer-tested (C+) entries will be allowed. The author must specify the pro-gram (and the program’s version) that was used to test the entry. Entries without such in-formationwill not be accepted for the tournament.
The preliminary award will be posted on the website http://www.selivanov.world/. The preliminary award may also be presented on a number of other sites. After the publication of the preliminary award, the participants will have 1 month for submitting their claims of defects and anticipations. After analyzing the claims, the judges will prepare the final award in each section. The CFR will present certificates and commemorative medals to the winners of the tournament. The judges will also receive commemorative medals.
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: Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen
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/
Československý šach – 2020
Chess magazine Československý šach announces an international composing tourney for original studies published during year 2020.
Your studies with any theme (maximum 6 from one author) send by 30th November 2020 to the address of the editor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The judge is Emil Vlasák (Czech Republic).
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
Polish Chess Federation – 2020
POLISH CHESS FEDERATION 2020 Polish Chess Federation announces an informal international composing tourneyin following sections:
• twomovers [#2] –judge Jarosław Brzozowicz
• threemovers [#3] –judge Waldemar Tura
• selfmates in 2 moves [s#2] –judge Marcin Banaszek
• selfmates in 3 –6 moves [s#3-6] –judge Eugeniusz Iwanow
• helpmates in 2-3 moves [h#2-3] –judge Walerij Kopy l
• endgames [eg] –judge Jan Rusinek.
In each group there are 3 prizes.Problems are published on up to date on the Polish Chess Federation side.
Closing date: December 1st 2020. Problems on diagram or in notation with the complete solution send to:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. –
– ESTUDIOS Y PROBLEMAS VER en Zadania konkursowe 2019 (Los composiciones del concurso) –Award 2018 (studies)
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('cloakebe9d351b58b141db20d498a27c0caac').innerHTML += ''+addy_textebe9d351b58b141db20d498a27c0caac+'<\/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