Latest News
update: 19-7-2019:
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Chessfriend and Clubmate Brent Burg
(not family of Twan Burg)
did show me this bold position which has only one solution and hard to find.
May be not good enough for a prize winner, but anyway an endgamestudy !
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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.
The judges of the championship were Harold van der Heijden (The Netherlands),
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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
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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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 Niels 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 8-7-2019.
Tourney Moscow 2019:
Theme is free. No more than 10 figures in the starting position of the etude.
- Judge is: Evgeny Kopylov
- Send etudes until 08/31/2019– by e-mail to the competition director Pavel Murashev: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
It is desirable to send etudes in the DOC format.
- The results of the competition will be announced before the end of 2019.
-The competition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of a chess player and chess composer Ilya Shumov.
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.