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11-6-2017: German magazine Schach 2016-2017
14-5-2017: Provisional Award: Magyar Sakkvilag 2017.
9-5-2018: Variantim April 2018 with Hoch 70 JT - Israeli Ring Ty Studies 2016 (partly in Hebrew).
28-4-2018: Zinchuk-80 MT 2018 (Russian PDF).
Also published in "Problemist of Ukraine", N2/2018.
26-3-2018: Halberstadt 50 MT 2017 Provisional award.
18-3-2017: Ceskoslovensky Sach 2017
17-3-2017: Samir Badalov-55 MT 2017.
15-3-2018: Provisional award Stigter-64 JT 2017.
12-3-2018: Provisional award Sosiura 120 MT 2017.
24-2-2018: Babich 110 MT and Olimpiev 80 MT 2017.
17-2-2018: Provisional ChessStar 2017.
14-2-2018: Provisional award Polish Chess Federation 2017.
29-1-2018: UAPA 5th 2018.
16-1-2018: Provisional award Magazine Ty EG 2016-2017
15-01-2018: e4-e5 10 JT 2017 (pdf page 625).
5-1-2018: Peter Krug 50 JT 2017 Final award.
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Update: 17-6-2018:
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Arpad Rusz has created Syzygy Endgame Explorer (SEE) which is software for mining the newly generated 7-man endgame tablebases.
The tool can not only find mutual zugzwangs but can also identify positions where interesting moves are the only winning ones
(like when a piece moves to a corner square or it is sacrificed).
His goal is to write a tool similar to CQL which searches tablebases instead of pgn files.
Look at his nice website for more information about it.
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At YouTube GM Niclas Huschenbeth is presents (in German language) many amazing (Unglaubliche Studien) Endgame studies.
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Sadly we have to inform that honorary member Ignace Vandecasteele has passed away yesterday at an age of 91.
Vandecasteele, Ignace 1926-2018
Vladimir Samilo has composed two twin studies to remember Ignace
and both are inspirated by studies of Ignace:
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Many new tournaments are opened see: Tournament Calendar;
New issue of Finales Y Temas 103
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EG 212 issued, almost 100 pages !
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Yifan Hou misses study like win against Caruana !
In the game Caruana - Yifan Hou in the Grenke Chess Classic tournament in Germany, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden the following position came up.
Black played 64... a5 and the game ended in a draw, but black had the following study like win !
64. ... Kd2 65. Bxa6 Nd3+ ! 66. cxd3 d4 !
To replay:
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Argentinian magazine special issue Finales Y Temas 102 by Jose Copie.
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Mystery about composer J.Fauchner, as pointed out by Rainer Staudte.
Was it Julius Fauchner (1820-1878) who composed one in 1854?
Because most of the known studies are composed from 1995 to 2005 (published in Chess Life & Review) it seems to be someone else?
Who can help us out here?
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Registered users are able to download compressed zip-files with all the PGN-files on this site.
See menu: Collections, Downloads.
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Otb GM Christian Chirila from the St.Louis Chess Club presents at YouTube nice examples of studies composed by Mario Garcia.
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Provisional award Stigter-64 JT 2017 published.
More PDF files of the website of the late Iuri Akobia are copied to Arves to secure them.
Most of them are added to the Awards page.
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Study section of the German magazine "Problem Forum" now coming available at Arves.
Look at menu: Collections, Problem Forum.
Thanks to Martin Minski.
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Martin Minski has created an endgamestudy (for Chessstar 2018)
inspired by the finish of the game by Vishy Anand - Grischuk,A
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Yochanan Afek best study solver at Nunspeet.
In this PDF you may find the 6 studies to be solved.
The result table:
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Who can provide some basic information (with a picture) about the following composers to create a personal page to honor them?
Vassily Pomogalov, C. Sansom, VN. Kondratev, V.Khenkin, J.Szulc, A. Kuryatnikov, Sergei Manyakhin,
R.Bania, V.Zheltukov, E.Kolsenikov, V.Nikitin, L.Sedlak, D.Blundell, L.Mozes,
R.Svoboda and also others not yet having a page here, see list: Ranking Composers.
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At Chessbase.com the study of the month article is about the Platov brothers, written by Siegfried Hornecker..
Also at Chessbase.com Yochanan Afek presents an article with more information about the Solving Contest at WijkaanZee.
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On request did some menu changes. Hope it is more clear now?
On request new articles with Miniatures are added.
See menu Endgame studies, miniatures.
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Yochanan Afek at Chessbase.com reports extensively about the Jan Timman 65 JT.
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Picture found of Louma, Josef 1898-1955.
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Twan Burg wins 9th Arves Solving Contest 2018.
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Wouter J.G. Mees
(6.8.1921 – 25.1.2018)
It is with great regret that we inform you that the patriarch of Dutch endgame study composition
passed away on January 25 at the age of 96.
He was one of the founders of the Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Eindspelstudie (ARVES).
An obituary by Harold van der heijden is published in EG212 (April 2018)
and in Dutch in the magazine of the KNSB.
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Vladimir Samilo (Ukraine) composed the following study in memory of Wouter Mees.
The study is made after a study by Wouter Mees created in 1939!
Peter Krug also has created a study in Memory of Wouter Mees.
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EG211 has been issued, contents and cover:
Supplement Jan Timman 65 JT Award report and analyses:
From left to right: Jan Timman, Hans Bohm, Yochanan Afek and Harold van der Heijden.
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The mysterious French/Canadian composer F.Chapais (17th century) identified as Gaspard Monge !
See in article: Chapais, F 1746-1818
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Database Harold van der Heijden has grown to 89.000 collected endgame studies.
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Another fresh study presented by Renan Araujo (Portugese) about a study of Martin Minski and Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen at You Tube.
Look at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrB8_QOHRs&t=11s and http://viladorenan.blogspot.de/
and an amazing ending with Yochanan Afek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Read: Study of the month by Siegfried Hornecker at Chessbase with tributes to John Roycroft, Harold van der Heijden and more.
He issues monthly interesting articles about Endgame studies !
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New book from Thinkers Publishing.
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Studies presented on YouTube in Portuguese by Renan Araujo:
Video about a study by Oleg Pervakov (1st prize, 7th Jenever ARVES Ty 2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkmUa0j7lEM&t=7s
Video about a study by Martin Minski (4th prize, 7th Jenever ARVES Ty 2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gSxtyXN5A&t=101s
Video about a study coproduction by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen & Martin Minski (Troitzky-150 MT 2017):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTySjtjruyg&t=129s
Video about a study by Martin Minski (Malyshko-105 MT 2017, task of three anti-stalemate queen sacrifices, not awarded!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwyAq_huvo&t=12s
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Yochanan Afek has written: Extreme Chess Tactics, where he uses many endgame studies as examples.
The book has 144 pages in 16 chapters with the following tactical themes:
Fork, Battery Play, Pinning and Unpinning, The Skewer, Deflection and Decoy, Trapping a Piece, Removing a Guard,
Line-Opening and Line Closing, Back-Rank Weakness, Pawn Promotion, Zwischenzug,
Devious Draws: Perpetual Check, Devious Draws: Stalemate, The Ultimate Goal: Mate, Combined Motifs.
Each Chapter has game-examples played by worldchampions and about 20 diagrams with exercises where a question or hint is given.
The solutions are explained very clearly.
Besides all over the board examples (a bit more than a half of the total exercises) are from world champions practice (men and women).
The rest are of players and solvers friendly endgame studies.
The book is recommended because many of the examples and exercises are taken from beautiful endgame studies !
The book starts with the famous finish of world champion Magnus Carlsen in 2016 against Kariakin (See below ...)
where he brings forward his own pattern recognition of a game played in Beltsy, 1979 between Popov and Novopashin,
where white even combined a deeper (5 moves in advance) same win.
He emphasize the importance of pattern-recognition in the process of training chess capabilities in general
and in improving tactical skills in particular.
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Improved definition of an Endgame study is given by Harold van der Heijden and added in: What is an Endgame study?
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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 12-5-2018.
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BENKO 90 JT
The Magyar Sakkvilag organizes a formal study tournament on the occasion 90th birthday of Pal Benko GM.
Benko was born on 15th July 1928.
He was twice World Champion candidate and he is International Master for chess compositions.
There are two sections in the tournament: wins (A) and draw (B).
No set theme.
Tournament director: Peter Gyarmati
Judge: Pal Benko
Send your original studies to the address of tournament director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
In both sections we accept up to two studies per author.
Closing date: 30th October 2018.
We will publish the provisional award on 15th January 2019 in Magyar Sakkvilag, and sending it to all participants via email.