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TOURNEY MAGAZINE “PHENIX” 2021

The French magazine “Phenix” is looking for original orthodox studies (theme free, entries will be published in the magazine) for its informal tourney for the year 2021

– Please send your entries to Daniel Capron : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until october 31 2021.

– Judge: Jan Sprenger (Germany)

– The preliminary award of the tourney will be sent to participants by e-mail and will be published in the site Internet of “Phenix” and in the magazine.

STRATEGEMS – 2021 – Moremovers & Studies

Moremovers – Editor: Richard Becker – :This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – Judge: Alexander Kuzovkov.(Russia) .

Studies – Editor : Franjo Vrabec: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– Judge: Pavel Arestov

– Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

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.

- Prizes , honourable mentions , commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

- The  award  will be sent to participants by e-mail.

- Closing date: 31th October 2021

 14th INTERNATIONAL INTERNET TOURNAMENT (UAPA) – 2021

Section A : Theme : ( white builds Fortress - Draw ) or ( white ruins Black's Fortress- Win ) .

If the number of studies is significant, there will be two sections: A.1. Win and A.2. Draw

– Examples : Look here Fortress (chess)
– Judge : GM (chess) Petr Kiryakov (Russia)

Section B: No set theme.
B.1. Studies Win   - Judge: IM (Composition) Michal Hlinka (Slovakia)
B.2. Studies Draw - Judge: FM (Chess) Poul Rewitz (Denmark)

Entries : not more than three per composer (in each section)

– Send studies to:: Sebastian Palomo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– or M. García This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

– All selected original studies will be posted periodically on the UAPA website: http://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar/

– Prizes, honourable mentions, commendations and special nominations will be awarded.

- The provisional award will be issued in July 2021, will be available in the same website and will be sent to all participants
by e-mail.

– Closing date 30.4.2021

8th FIDE World Cup in Composing 2020

REGULATIONS of the Eighth FIDE World Cup 2020 in Composing

1. TASKS AND OBJECTIVES

The Eighth FIDE World Cup in Composing is held with the aim to:
- develop and promote chess;
- develop and promote chess composition as a constituent of chess culture;
- expand the geography of participants;
- decide the winners.

2. ORGANIZERS

The organizers are the International Chess Federation, with the participation of the World Federation for Chess Composition.

The holding of the tournament is the direct responsibility of the Director and the Panel of Judges:

The Director of the tournament is Aleksandr Bulavka (Belarus).

• A. Twomovers – Judge: Dragan Stojnić (Serbia)

• B. Threemovers – Judge: Miodrag Mladenović (Serbia)

• C. Moremovers – Judge: Mikhail Marandyuk (Ukraine)

• D. Endgame studies – Judge: Yochanan Afek (Israel)

• E. Helpmates – Judge: Michal Dragoun (Czech Republic)

• F. Selfmates – Judge: Aleksandr Azhusin (Russia)

• G. Fairies – Judge: Vlaicu Crisan (Romania)

• H. Retros and Proofgames – Judge: Nicolas Dupont (France)

3. TIME SCHEDULE OF THE EVENT

The closing date for submitting the entries is May 15, 2020.
The director will send all compositions to the judges on uniform and anonymous diagrams by June 1, 2020.

All judges are to submit their awards by August 1, 2020.

4. PARTICIPANTS

Anyone wishing to take part in the tournament can do so.

5. PROCEDURE FOR PARTICIPATION

In each section, only one composition by each author is acceptable and joint compositions are not allowed.

The theme is free in all sections. In the fairies section (G), there is no restriction on stipulations, conditions, the use of fairy pieces, or the number of moves.

In the selfmates section (F) and fairies section (G), only computer-tested problems (using Alybadix, Popeye, Gustav or WinChloe) are allowed;

the participants should specify the version of the program they used to test their entry.

Entries must be sent on diagrams with complete solutions and any comments by email only to the Director’s address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Participants should mention their postal address in the email.

6. TOURNAMENT AWARD

After receiving the entries in anonymous form from the Director, the judges consider the submitted compositions, determine their originality, difficulty, aesthetic appeal, search for possible anticipations, and decide their ranking in the tournament. In each section, compositions in first, second, and third places must be determined, as well as entries receiving honorary mentions and commendations.

It is also possible to specify prize-winning compositions (no more than three per section).

After ranking the entries, the judges are to send, within the preset period, their award, with the indication of numbers of the compositions in the award and related comments, to the Director of the tournament. After receiving the awards from the judges, the Director is to enter the names of the authors and provide the preliminary results for publication on the websites of FIDE and WFCC before August 15, 2020. During one month after the publication of the preliminary results, claims of defects and anticipations can be sent to the Director, who will accumulate and forward them to the judges.

After receiving the claims, the judges will make the final decision on the results of the World Cup and send the final award to the Director.

7. PUBLICATION OF RESULTS

The final results of this competition will be published on the FIDE and WFCC websites no later than Oсtober 1, 2020.

8. PRIZE-GIVING

In each section, the Cup winner will be entitled to a money prize of 500 Euro, a Cup, a medal, and a certificate.

Composers in 2nd and 3rd places will be awarded medals and respective certificates.

The certificates for 1st-3rd places will be signed by the President of FIDE.

The prizes and other distinctions are to be presented to the laureates on October 9, 2020, at the closing ceremony of the World Chess Composition Congress in Rodos (Greece)

9. ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES

These Regulations shall constitute an official invitation to the tournament.

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.,

The closing date is postponed !

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.

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