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B. G. Laws: the Artistry of the Chess Problem (1923)
The Artistry of the Chess Problem with special reference to the beauties of the three- and four-mover by B. G. Laws [ 1923 ] An Electronic Edition Anders Thulin, Malmö 2008-04-12 NOTES TO ELECTRONIC EDITION The main change in this edition is the use of modern algebraic nota- tion, using the letter ‘S’ to represent the knight. The notation used in the original is a mixture between algebraic and descriptive. All problems have been computer tested – any inadvertencies have been documented in brackets in the solutions. Some minor notation mixups have been silently corrected. The obvious misprint of a white Queen instead of a white Rook on d2 in the Geyerstam three-mover has also been corrected, as well as the name of the creator of the Indian problem, which was given as Rev. C. Loveday. One oddity was discovered during testing. The Chocholouš four- mover lacks a solution: it turns out that it appears here in a different form than that it was originally given. The reason for the change is not known. The original form is as follows: cuuuuuuuuCG. Chocholouš {WDWDWDKD} {hWDWDWHW} {WDWDWDWD} {DPDWiW0N} {WDWDWDW)} {DnDQDWDW} {W4WDWDWD} {DWDWDWDW} vllllllllVMate in four BEAUTY IN THE THREE-MOVER By B. G. Laws In considering the Chess Problem with a view to appreciating its qual- ities, three essentials must be borne in mind: difficulty, idea and con- struction. Each of these is complementary of the others. Difficulty is placed first mainly for the purpose of disposing of that subject before dealing with the other two. It can hardly be suggested that there is beauty in this quality considered alone; but the causes which create this feature may be beautiful, such as the latent chess truth being ob- scured by skilful deployment of the men. -
White Knight Review Chess E-Magazine January/February - 2012 Table of Contents
Chess E-Magazine Interactive E-Magazine Volume 3 • Issue 1 January/February 2012 Chess Gambits Chess Gambits The Immortal Game Canada and Chess Anderssen- Vs. -Kieseritzky Bill Wall’s Top 10 Chess software programs C Seraphim Press White Knight Review Chess E-Magazine January/February - 2012 Table of Contents Editorial~ “My Move” 4 contents Feature~ Chess and Canada 5 Article~ Bill Wall’s Top 10 Software Programs 9 INTERACTIVE CONTENT ________________ Feature~ The Incomparable Kasparov 10 • Click on title in Table of Contents Article~ Chess Variants 17 to move directly to Unorthodox Chess Variations page. • Click on “White Feature~ Proof Games 21 Knight Review” on the top of each page to return to ARTICLE~ The Immortal Game 22 Table of Contents. Anderssen Vrs. Kieseritzky • Click on red type to continue to next page ARTICLE~ News Around the World 24 • Click on ads to go to their websites BOOK REVIEW~ Kasparov on Kasparov Pt. 1 25 • Click on email to Pt.One, 1973-1985 open up email program Feature~ Chess Gambits 26 • Click up URLs to go to websites. ANNOTATED GAME~ Bareev Vs. Kasparov 30 COMMENTARY~ “Ask Bill” 31 White Knight Review January/February 2012 White Knight Review January/February 2012 Feature My Move Editorial - Jerry Wall [email protected] Well it has been over a year now since we started this publication. It is not easy putting together a 32 page magazine on chess White Knight every couple of months but it certainly has been rewarding (maybe not so Review much financially but then that really never was Chess E-Magazine the goal). -
No. 123 - (Vol.VIH)
No. 123 - (Vol.VIH) January 1997 Editorial Board editors John Roycrqfttf New Way Road, London, England NW9 6PL Edvande Gevel Binnen de Veste 36, 3811 PH Amersfoort, The Netherlands Spotlight-column: J. Heck, Neuer Weg 110, D-47803 Krefeld, Germany Opinions-column: A. Pallier, La Mouziniere, 85190 La Genetouze, France Treasurer: J. de Boer, Zevenenderdrffi 40, 1251 RC Laren, The Netherlands EDITORIAL achievement, recorded only in a scientific journal, "The chess study is close to the chess game was not widely noticed. It was left to the dis- because both study and game obey the same coveries by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories rules." This has long been an argument used to in New Jersey, beginning in 1983, to put the boot persuade players to look at studies. Most players m. prefer studies to problems anyway, and readily Aside from a few upsets to endgame theory, the give the affinity with the game as the reason for set of 'total information' 5-raan endgame their preference. Your editor has fought a long databases that Thompson generated over the next battle to maintain the literal truth of that ar- decade demonstrated that several other endings gument. It was one of several motivations in might require well over 50 moves to win. These writing the final chapter of Test Tube Chess discoveries arrived an the scene too fast for FIDE (1972), in which the Laws are separated into to cope with by listing exceptions - which was the BMR (Board+Men+Rules) elements, and G first expedient. Then in 1991 Lewis Stiller and (Game) elements, with studies firmly identified Noam Elkies using a Connection Machine with the BMR realm and not in the G realm. -
The 5Th Belgrade Chess Problems Festival Report by Milan Velimirović the Fifth Successive Festival Took Place from 2Nd to 4Th of May 2008
Mat Plus Review Summer 2008 The 5th Belgrade Chess Problems Festival Report by Milan Velimirović The fifth successive Festival took place from 2nd to 4th of May 2008. As usual a good number of guests from abroad were welcomed: Dinu-Ioan Nicula (ROM), Aleksander Leontyev (RUS), Andrey Selivanov (RUS), Eric Huber (ROM), Fadil Abdurahmanović (BIH), Iļja Ketris (LAT), Ivan Denkovski (MAK), Kostas Prentos (GRE), Michal Dragoun (CZE), Piotr Murdzia (POL), Valery Kopyl with his lovely daughter Valeria (UKR) and Živko Janevski (MAK). You may have noticed the exception from the alphabetical order of that list, but there is a good reason for it: Dinu-Ioan Nicula is the only foreign composer who has attended all five Festivals, and if he comes again next year the organizers could consider the idea of promoting him into an honorary participant. Anyway, all guests have been treated by the home team in a traditionally warm and friendly way. For the record, the participants from Serbia were: Bogoljub Trifunović, Borislav Gađanski, Borislav Ilinčić, Božidar Brujić, Božidar Šoškić, Branislav Đurašević, Darko Šaljić, Dragoljub Đokić, Goran Janković, Goran M. Todorović, Goran Škare, Igor Spirić, Joza Tucakov, Marjan Kovačević, Mihajlo Milanović, Milan Velimirović, Miodrag Radomirović, Mirko Miljanić, Nikola Miljaković, Nikola Petković, Petar Opening speech: Milan Milićević, president Šoškić, Radomir Mićunović, Slobodan of Chess club “Beograd Beopublikum”, Šaletić, Stevan B. Bokan, Tomislav Petrović, accompanied by Marjan Kovačević Vladimir Podinić and Zoran Sibinović. The programme was very busy and here is a brief report of all the events. Friday, May 2nd, 16:00. All participants were allowed to take part in a Machine Gun Solving event. -
Chapter 25, Boards with Three and More Dimensions
Chapter 25 Boards with three and more dimensions [We now move on to true three-dimensional boards. The earliest definite reference to three- dimensional chess appears to be to the oft-quoted Kieseritzky board, and the earliest game of which details survive is Maack’s ‘Raumschach’ of 1907. The multiple-board games of Part 1, such as Alice Chess, may also be classi,ed as 3-D games, though we shall normally restrict the term to games where the boards are stacked one above the other rather than being placed side by side. The most popular 3-D board amongst inventors, and at the same time the most mentally indigestible for the players, consists of eight normal boards mounted in this way. Less demanding on spatial vision, and hence more practical, are games confined to two or three 8x8 boards and games with boards smaller than 8x8. A few multi-dimensional games beckon the intellectually courageous. The rook generalizes immediately to three dimensions. The bishop does not, and three- dimensional games employ two different pieces: a ‘bishop’ which moves in a plane with the normal bishop move, and a new piece, often called a ‘unicorn’, which advances through all three dimensions at once. (Imagine the piece in the middle of a cube. If it is a rook, it moves to the middle of a face of the cube; if a bishop, to the middle of an edge; if a unicorn, to one of the corners.) The queen is sometimes treated as R+B, more usually as R+B+U. When away from the edge, a rook has 6 directions of movement, a bishop 12, a unicorn 8, and a queen 18 or 26. -
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112 CONTENTS StrateGems 2011 h#n Award………………………………………. 58 Danka Petkova-90MT Award……………………………………… 59 Repeat the Sounding Joy……………………………………………63 The quest for a King-only proof game…….………………………. 66 Recently Honored US Compositions ……………………….……... 69 Original compositions and SG53 solutions……………………...… 71 StrateGems StrateGems Solving Ladder 2011, Leg 26 ………………...……… 93 StrateGems 2011 Solving Championship………………………….. 95 Four of a Kind……………………………………………………… 95 Petko A. Petkov Jubilee Tourney Award (PAP-70JT)…………….. 96 Recent Tourney Winners……………………………..……………. 103 2012 StrateGems Books Library ................................................................111 EDITORS Chief Editor: Mike Prcic, 2613 Northshore Lane, Westlake Village, CA 91361-3318, [email protected] #2 Editor: Aaron Hirschenson 6 Nizana Street, Metar 85025, Israel, [email protected] #3 Editor: Rauf Aliovsadzade 5600 Randolph St. Lincoln, NE 68510, [email protected] #n Editor: Richard Becker 510 Pleasant Ave. Oregon City, OR, 97045, [email protected] Studies Editor: Franjo Vrabec Blåkullagatan 31C, 25457 Helsingborg, Sweden, [email protected] Helpmates Editor: Nikola Stolev Buković 3a, n. Lisice, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia, [email protected] Series-Movers and Stalemates Editor: Radovan Tomašević Djure Salaja 19b/4, SRB-19000 Zajecar, Serbia, [email protected] Selfmates and Fairies Editor: Petko A. Petkov Janko Sakazov N 38, whod W, 1504-Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected] nN Retros and Proof Games Editor: Kostas Prentos Kleanthous 23, GR-54453 Thessaloniki, Greece, [email protected] Solutions Editor: Danny Dunn 6717 Lahontan, Ft. Worth, TX 76132, [email protected] Consultant: Dan Meinking; StrateGems Web site: www.Strategems.org Language Editor: Virginia Prcic, Contributor: Bob Lincoln SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION StrateGems. U.S. subscribers $35 per year. Other countries $40. Good Companions Fellow $50. -
Final Award Booklet
WORLD FEDERATION FOR CHESS COMPOSITION 10 th WORLD CHESS COMPOSITION TOURNAMENT 2016-2017 FINAL AWARD December 2017 WORLD FEDERATION FOR CHESS COMPOSITION 10 КОМАНДНЫЙ ЧЕМПИОНАТ МИРА 2016-2017 ОКОНЧАТЕЛЬНЫЕ РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ Декабрь 2017 In Memoriam Aleksandr Manvelyan ARM (04.06.1946 - 21.06.2015) Philippe Robert FRA (02.08.1938 - 17.04.2016) Miroslav Šindelář CZE (28.09.1948 - 09.06.2016) Albert Ivanov MDA (05.10.1937 - 07.11.2016) Viktor Aberman USA (03.10.1953 - 08.11.2016) Josef Kupper SUI (10.03.1932 - 05.06.2017) 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS In Memoriam ...................................................................................................................................... 4 INDEX OF AUTHORS ....................................................................................................................... 8 BEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES ........................................................................................................ 13 BEST INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION RATING ...................................................................... 13 RESULTS .............................................................................................................................................. 14 NUMBER OF ENTRIES PER COUNTRY ................................................................................... 15 SECTION A: TWOMOVERS .......................................................................................................... 16 Section A: Twomovers - Table ......................................................................................................... -
British Endgame Study News Special Number 18 December 1999
British Endgame Study News Special number 18 December 1999 Edited and published by John Beasley, T St James Road, Harpenden, Herts AL5 4NX ISSN 1363-0318 Endgames in Chess Variants (4) Losing Chess: White to move cannot wrn! Paradoxical play in the Losing Game Losing a move in Shatranj K+P v K in Alice Chess Putting a man back on the board Paradoxical play in the Losing Game Long-term readers of BEsff will necd no reminding of the rules of the lnsing Game. Captu.ing is compulsory, and a player's object is to lose all his men; the king is an ordinary man which can be captured, anda pawn may promote to it. Of all variants of chess, it has prcv€d to be the dchest in fascinating endgames. 1 - Black to move 2 - win in 5 moves 2a - after 1...Ka8 King against knight is usually a win tbr the king, but I shows an exceptional position; Black to play cannot sacrifice bK, and White will sacrifice on a7 next move. Stan Goldovski's 2 (The Problemist, March 1999) shows an exception to the exc€ption. Play starts 1Nb5 Ka8 (see 2a), but now White must 4or play 2 Na7 (after 2..,Kxa7 he will have nothing better than 3 d8K with a draw); instead, he must repeat the procedure,2 Nc7, and only after 2..,Ka7 can he sacrifice wN: 3 NaS KxaS 4 d8B and wB can be sacrificed next move. 3 Na6 Kxa6 4 d8R also wins, but not in 5. 3-win 3a - after 2...Ka8 3b-after5Nd5 2 was a deliberatc composition, but Fabrice Liardet has pointed out that the "longcst wins" with 2N v K and B+N v K, discovered by my computer analysis of three-piece endings in Dgcembcr 1997, involve the same manoeuvre. -
Synthetic Games
S\TII}IETIC GAh.fES Synthetic Garnes Play a shortest possible game leading tCI ... G. P. Jelliss September 1998 page I S1NTHETIC GAI\{ES CONTENTS Auto-Surrender Chess BCM: British Chess Magazine, Oppo-Cance llati on Che s s CA'. ()hess Amafeur, EP: En Part 1: Introduction . .. .7 5.3 Miscellaneous. .22 Passant, PFCS'; Problemist Fairy 1.1 History.".2 Auto-Coexi s tence Ches s Chess Supplement, UT: Ultimate 1.2 Theon'...3 D3tnamo Chess Thernes, CDL' C. D" I,ocock, GPJ: Gravitational Chess G. P. Jelliss, JA: J. Akenhead. Part 2: 0rthodox Chess . ...5 Madrssi Chess TGP: T. G. Pollard, TRD: 2. I Checknrates.. .5 Series Auto-Tag Chess T. R. Dar,vson. 2.2 Stalernates... S 2.3 Problem Finales. I PART 1 I.I HISTOR,Y 2.4 Multiple Pawns... l0 INTRODUCTIOT{ Much of my information on the 2.,5 Kings and Pawns".. l1 A'synthetic game' is a sequence early history comes from articles 2.6 Other Pattern Play...13 of moves in chess, or in any form by T. R. Dar,vson cited below, of variant chess, or indesd in any Chess Amsteur l9l4 especially. Part 3. Variant Play . ...14 other garne: which simulates the 3.1 Exact Play... 14 moves of a possible, though Fool's Mste 3 .2 Imitative Direct. l 5 usually improbable, actual game? A primitive example of a 3.3 Imitative Oblique.. " l6 and is constructed to show certain synthetic game in orthodox chess 3.4 Maximumming...lT specified events rvith fewest moves. is the 'fool's mate': l.f3l4 e6l5 3.5 Seriesplay ...17 The following notes on history 2.g4 Qh4 mate. -
Chapter 24, Cylindrical, Toroidal, and Spherical Boards
Chapter 24 Cylindrical, toroidal, and spherical boards [The boards in this chapter occupy a half-way house between two-dimensional and three- dimensional boards, being two-dimensional in nature but needing to be bent around in a third dimension if they are to be accurately realised. That said, ‘cylinder chess’ is most often played on a normal 8x8 board, the players imagining the join between the extreme left and right hand files, and the other games in this chapter can be played on planar boards with a greater or lesser degree of imagination.] 24.1 Cylindrical boards Cylinder Chess. Origins unknown: the board whereas in Circular Chess they can only draw was used by the Marquis Teodoro Ciccolini (Variant Chess 48). And of course if the (whose main occupation appears to have been number of files is odd the distinction between the invention of a perpetual motion machine) ‘black’ and ‘white’ bishops vanishes, and a in the early 19th century (feenschach, January- single bishop can reach all squares. March 1980, quoting an article by Adriano A curious endgame situation arises when Chicco in L’Italia Scacchistica, August 1939, White has Ka4, Pa5/b7 (3) against Black Ka7 itself citing Ciccolini’s 1836 book Il Cavallo (1). The winning move in ordinary chess is degli Scacchi). It was later introduced as a 1 a6 to defend the b-pawn, and if 1...Kxa6 problem theme by A. Piccinini in 1907, and then 2 b8(R) (promotion to Q would give has been claimed for others since. The 8x8 stalemate). This doesn’t work in Cylinder board is considered to be wrapped round a Chess because K+R v K is not a win, but now vertical cylinder so that 4les a and h are 1 a6 Kxa6 2 b8(Q) wins because there is no contiguous. -
Interim Business Report April 1, 2017 September 30, 2017
“Pursuing infinite possibilities with the power of ideas” since 1896 The198 th Fiscal Year Interim Business Report April 1, 2017 September 30, 2017 INTERIM BUSINESS REPORT Securities code: 3202 010_7046302832912.indd 2 2017/12/20 17:06:41 Management’s message <Introduction> During the first half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, the Japanese economy remained in a moderate recovery trend overall. Although the domestic income and employment environment continued to improve as a result of various government policies, concerns remained in issues such as the ongoing uncertainty of overseas economies. Under these circumstances, the Group continued to work diligently on managerial initiatives based on the “Bridge to the Future” Mid-term Management Plan in each of its business sections. <Business results for the first half> Net sales decreased to ¥2,133 million (down 7.2% year on year) due to the absence of extraordinary income in the commercial property business seen in the same period of the previous fiscal year, as well as sluggish growth among some OEM customers in the health-related and apparel-related sectors. However, operating income increased to ¥227 million (up 14.9% year on year) as a result of a reduction in general and administrative expenses, and ordinary income increased to ¥169 million (up 81.7% year on year) due to the absence of one-time non-operating expenses incurred in the same period of the previous fiscal year. As a result of this, combined with the absence of extraordinary income and extraordinary losses recorded in the same period of the previous fiscal year and income taxes, profit attributable to owners of parent increased around two-fold year on year to ¥130 million (up 105.7% year on year). -
VARIANT CHESS 8 Page 97
July-December 1992 VARIANT CHESS 8 page 97 @ Copyright. 1992. rssN 0958-8248 Publisher and Editor G. P. Jelliss 99 Bohemia Road Variant Chess St Leonards on Sea TN37 6RJ (rJ.K.) In this issue: Hexagonal Chess, Modern Courier Chess, Escalation, Games Consultant Solutions, Semi-Pieces, Variants Duy, Indexes, New Editor/Publisher. Malcolm Horne Volume 1 complete (issues 1-8, II2 pages, A4 size, unbound): f10. 10B Windsor Square Exmouth EX8 1JU New Varieties of Hexagonal Chess find that we need 8 pawns on the second rank plus by G. P. Jelliss 5 on the third rank. I prefer to add 2 more so that there are 5 pawns on each colour, and the rooks are Various schemes have been proposed for playing more securely blocked in. There is then one pawn in chess on boards on which the cells are hexagons each file except the edge files. A nm being a line of instead of squares. A brief account can be found in cells perpendicular to the base-line. The Oxford Companion to Chess 1984 where games Now how should the pawns move? If they are to by Siegmund Wellisch I9L2, H.D.Baskerville L929, continue to block the files we must allow them only Wladyslaw Glinski L949 and Anthony Patton L975 to move directly forward. This is a fers move. For are mentioned. To these should be added the variety their capture moves we have choices: the other two by H. E. de Vasa described in Joseph Boyer's forward fers moves, or the two forward wazit NouveoLx, Jeux d'Ecltecs Non Orthodoxes 1954 moves, or both.