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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. -
Weltenfern a Commented Selection of Some of My Works Containing 149 Originals
Weltenfern A commented selection of some of my works containing 149 originals by Siegfried Hornecker Dedicated to the memory of Dan Meinking and Milan Velimirovi ć who both encouraged me to write a book! Weltenfern : German for other-worldly , literally distant from the world , describing a person’s attitude In the opinion of the author the perfect state of mind to compose chess problems. - 1 - Index 1 – Weltenfern 2 – Index 3 – Legal Information 4 – Preface 6 – 20 ideas and themes 6 – Chapter One: A first walk in the park 8 – Chapter Two: Schachstrategie 9 – Chapter Three: An anticipated study 11 – Chapter Four: Sleepless nights, or how pain was turned into beauty 13 – Chapter Five: Knightmares 15 – Chapter Six: Saavedra 17 – Chapter Seven: Volpert, Zatulovskaya and an incredible pawn endgame 21 – Chapter Eight: My home is my castle, but I can’t castle 27 – Intermezzo: Orthodox problems 31 – Chapter Nine: Cooperation 35 – Chapter Ten: Flourish, Knightingale 38 – Chapter Eleven: Endgames 42 – Chapter Twelve: MatPlus 53 – Chapter 13: Problem Paradise and NONA 56 – Chapter 14: Knight Rush 62 – Chapter 15: An idea of symmetry and an Indian mystery 67 – Information: Logic and purity of aim (economy of aim) 72 – Chapter 16: Make the piece go away 77 – Chapter 17: Failure of the attack and the romantic chess as we knew it 82 – Chapter 18: Positional draw (what is it, anyway?) 86 – Chapter 19: Battle for the promotion 91 – Chapter 20: Book Ends 93 – Dessert: Heterodox problems 97 – Appendix: The simple things in life 148 – Epilogue 149 – Thanks 150 – Author index 152 – Bibliography 154 – License - 2 - Legal Information Partial reprint only with permission. -
Award -...CHESSPROBLEMS.CA
...CHESSPROBLEMS.CA Contents . ISSUE 14 (JULY 2018) 1 Originals 667 2018 Informal Tourney....... 667 Hors Concours............ 673 2 ChessProblems.ca Bulletin TT6 Award 674 3 Articles 678 Arno T¨ungler:Series-mover Artists: Manfred Rittirsch....... 678 Andreas Thoma:¥ Proca variations with e1 and e3...... 681 Jeff Coakley & Andrey Frolkin: Four Rebuses For The Bulletin 684 Arno T¨ungler:Record Breakers VI. 693 Adrian Storisteanu: Lab Notes........... 695 4 Last Page 699 Pauly's Comet............ 699 Editor: Cornel Pacurar Collaborators: Elke Rehder, . Adrian Storisteanu, Arno T¨ungler Originals: [email protected] Articles: [email protected] Correspondence: [email protected] Rook Endgame III ISSN 2292-8324 [Mixed technique on paper, c Elke Rehder, http://www.elke-rehder.de. Reproduced with permission.] ChessProblems.ca Bulletin IIssue 14I ..... ORIGINALS 2018 Informal Tourney T369 T366 T367 T368 Rom´eoBedoni ChessProblems.ca's annual Informal Tourney V´aclavKotˇeˇsovec V´aclavKotˇeˇsovec V´aclavKotˇeˇsovec S´ebastienLuce is open for series-movers of any type and with ¥ any fairy conditions and pieces. Hors concours mp% compositions (any genre) are also welcome! Send to: [email protected]. |£#% 2018 Judge: Manfred Rittirsch (DEU) p4 2018 Tourney Participants: # 1. Alberto Armeni (ITA) 2. Erich Bartel (DEU) C+ (1+5)ser-h#13 C+ (6+2)ser-!=17 C+ (5+2)ser-!=18 C- (1+16)ser-=67 3. Rom´eoBedoni (FRA) No white king Madrasi Madrasi Frankfurt Chess 4. Geoff Foster (AUS) p| p my = Grasshopper = Grasshopper = Nightrider No white king 5. Gunter Jordan (DEU) 4 my % = Leo = Nightrider = Nightriderhopper Royal pawn d6 ´ 6. LuboˇsKekely (SVK) 2 solutions 2 solutions 2 solutions 7. -
Brilliant Mates in Moscow by IM Yochanan Afek
Chess Today is happy to present an article on composition by one of our readers – IM Yochanan Afek (left, photo by Cathy Rogers). This article was first published in Chess Today No. 1069 and 1070 (October 2003). Brilliant Mates in Moscow by IM Yochanan Afek, "Problems and games are two equal aspects of chess", wrote once Dr. Milan Vukcevich, the great American composer who passed away earlier this year and who was also a very strong over-the-board master. Obviously he did not refer by that to the number of people involved but rather to the injustice frequently done to this fine art, by too many players who tend to consider it as a waste of time for the purpose of improving one's playing skills. "Relative to the game", he explains, "a good chess problem activates more force per move, uses pieces more efficiently and stresses more their cooperation and interference with each other. A good problem may combine a dozen separate elements into one extraordinary event, in the same way in which a good novel may condense a dozen real lives into a single lifetime of its fictitious hero..." — food for the thought... Not everyone knows that within the immense world of chess, a smaller, yet a highly motivated and constantly growing community of problems and studies fans has developed over the years, organizing a variety of composing and solving events, publishing dozens of books and magazines, awarding official FIDE titles and even holding an annual congress. All this worldwide intensive activity is done voluntarily and winning dozens of prestigious awards definitely will not make one any richer as the prize money, if any, is usually rather modest. -
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. -
Chess Problems out of the Box
werner keym Chess Problems Out of the Box Nightrider Unlimited Chess is an international language. (Edward Lasker) Chess thinking is good. Chess lateral thinking is better. Photo: Gabi Novak-Oster In 2002 this chess problem (= no. 271) and this photo were pub- lished in the German daily newspaper Rhein-Zeitung Koblenz. That was a great success: most of the ‘solvers’ were wrong! Werner Keym Nightrider Unlimited The content of this book differs in some ways from the German edition Eigenartige Schachprobleme (Curious Chess Problems) which was published in 2010 and meanwhile is out of print. The complete text of Eigenartige Schachprobleme (errata included) is freely available for download from the publisher’s site, see http://www.nightrider-unlimited.de/angebot/keym_1st_ed.pdf. Copyright © Werner Keym, 2018 All rights reserved. Kuhn † / Murkisch Series No. 46 Revised and updated edition 2018 First edition in German 2010 Published by Nightrider Unlimited, Treuenhagen www.nightrider-unlimited.de Layout: Ralf J. Binnewirtz, Meerbusch Printed / bound by KLEVER GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach ISBN 978-3-935586-14-6 Contents Preface vii Chess composition is the poetry of chess 1 Castling gala 2 Four real castlings in directmate problems and endgame studies 12 Four real castlings in helpmate two-movers 15 Curious castling tasks 17 From the Allumwandlung to the Babson task 18 From the Valladao task to the Keym task 28 The (lightened) 100 Dollar theme 35 How to solve retro problems 36 Economical retro records (type A, B, C, M) 38 Economical retro records -
Birth of the Chess Queen C Marilyn Yalom for Irv, Who Introduced Me to Chess and Other Wonders Contents
A History Birth of the Chess Queen C Marilyn Yalom For Irv, who introduced me to chess and other wonders Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction xii Selected Rulers of the Period xx part 1 • the mystery of the chess queen’ s birth One Chess Before the Chess Queen 3 Two Enter the Queen! 15 Three The Chess Queen Shows Her Face 29 part 2 • spain, italy, and germany Four Chess and Queenship in Christian Spain 39 Five Chess Moralities in Italy and Germany 59 part 3 • france and england Six Chess Goes to France and England 71 v • contents Seven Chess and the Cult of the Virgin Mary 95 Eight Chess and the Cult of Love 109 part 4 • scandinavia and russia Nine Nordic Queens, On and Off the Board 131 Ten Chess and Women in Old Russia 151 part 5 • power to the queen Eleven New Chess and Isabella of Castile 167 Twelve The Rise of “Queen’s Chess” 187 Thirteen The Decline of Women Players 199 Epilogue 207 Notes 211 Index 225 About the Author Praise Other Books by Marilyn Yalom Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Waking Piece The world dreams in chess Kibitzing like lovers Pawn’s queened redemption L is a forked path only horses lead. Rook and King castling for safety Bishop boasting of crossways slide. Echo of Orbit: starless squared sky. She alone moves where she chooses. Protecting helpless monarch, her bidden skill. Attacking schemers, plotters, blundered all. Game eternal. War breaks. She enters. Check mate. Hail Queen. How we crave Her majesty. —Gary Glazner Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the vast philo- logical, archaeological, literary, and art historical research of pre- vious writers, most notably from Germany and England. -
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. -
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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 ......................................................................................................... -
Developing Chess Talent
Karel van Delft and Merijn van Delft Developing Chess Talent KVDC © 2010 Karel van Delft, Merijn van Delft First Dutch edition 2008 First English edition 2010 ISBN 978-90-79760-02-2 'Developing Chess Talent' is a translation of the Dutch book 'Schaaktalent ontwikkelen', a publication by KVDC KVDC is situated in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, and can be reached via www.kvdc.nl Cover photo: Training session Youth Meets Masters by grandmaster Artur Yusupov. Photo Fred Lucas: www.fredlucas.eu Translation: Peter Boel Layout: Henk Vinkes Printing: Wbhrmann Print Service, Zutphen CONTENTS Foreword by Artur Yusupov Introduction A - COACHING Al Top-class sport Al.1 Educational value 17 Al.2 Time investment 17 Al.3 Performance ability 18 A1.4 Talent 18 Al. 5 Motivation 18 A2 Social environment A2.1 Psychology 19 A2.2 Personal development 20 A2.3 Coach 20 A2.4 Role of parents 21 A3 Techniques A3.1 Goal setting 24 A3.2 Training programme 25 A3.3 Chess diary 27 A3.4 Analysis questionnaire 27 A3.5 A cunning plan! 28 A3.6 Experiments 29 A3.7 Insights through games 30 A3.8 Rules of thumb and mnemonics 31 A4 Skills A4.1 Self-management 31 A4.2 Mental training 33 A4.3 Physical factors 34 A4.4 Chess thinking 35 A4.5 Creativity 36 A4.6 Concentration 39 A4.7 Flow 40 A4.8 Tension 40 A4.9 Time management 41 A4.10 Objectivity 44 A4.11 Psychological tricks 44 A4.12 Development process 45 A4.13 Avoiding blunders 46 A4.14 Non-verbal behaviour 46 3 AS Miscellaneous A5.1 Chess as a subject in primary school 47 A5.2 Youth with adults 48 A5.3 Women's chess 48 A5.4 Biographies -
48 Helpmates: Black to Play and Lose
TTHHEE PPUUZZZZLLIINNGG SSIIDDEE OOFF CCHHEESSSS Jeff Coakley HELPMATES: BLACK TO PLAY AND LOSE number 48 September 28, 2013 In the world of chess composition, only direct mates and endgame studies can rival the popularity of helpmates. There are more than 100,000 known problems. If you solve ten everyday, it will only take you thirty years to do them all! Let’s get started. In a helpmate, Black cooperates with White to checkmate the black king. In other words, Black plays the worst moves possible. White has an ally, not an opponent. Otherwise the normal rules of chess are followed. Unless stated differently, Black always moves first. The first three puzzles are helpmates in one. Find the black move that allows an immediate checkmate. Black moves, White mates. Easy! Helpmate 01 w________w áRdwdw4kd] àdQdwdwdp] ßwdpdwdpd] Þdwgw1ndN] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdw)wdwdw] Ûw)wdw4w)] ÚdwIwdw$w] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Helpmate in 1 Black plays first. Find the move that lets White play mate in one. A Note on Notation One unusual thing about helpmates is the notation used for solutions. The convention is to write Black’s move first, right after the move number, followed by White’s move. The opposite of standard notation. For example, in helpmate notation, 1.f5 e4 2.g5 Qh5# means that Black plays pawn to f5 and White answers with pawn to e4. Black then pushes pawn to g5 and White mates with queen to h5. Helpmate 02 w________w áwdwdwdkd] àdw4wdn0w] ßpdwdrdw0] ÞdpdRdQ1w] Ýwdwdwdwd] ÜdB)wdwdw] ÛP)wdwdP)] ÚdwdwdRdK] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Helpmate in 1 Black plays first. Find the move that lets White play mate in one.