Three Greek International Masters in chess composition are in Subotica (it is in northern Serbia near the borders with Hungary) participating in the 5th European Chess Solving Competition (5 ECSC 2009) :
Pavlos Moutecidis,
Harry Fougiaxis,
Kostas Prentos.
We send our warmest wishes for their success.
You may find details from the competitions here.
08-May-2009 : The problems from the Open Solving Contest are published here. (In problem 10 there is a black pawn in e7).In the five-mover to the right, the under-promotion key creates a threat, which can be parred by one of the black rooks. There follow two nice variations (with threats Bc2-d1-f3, Sf2-d1-e3), where the bB and the bS want to go to g5, then the rook runs to save the situation and... Try to solve this problem or see the solution at the end of this post!
09-05-2009 : Results from the Open Solving Contest, 82 solvers
12 problems were given. Points per problem 5. Maximum points 60.
1. Dolf Wissman NLD (Rating 2551.86) 60.0 points
2. Marjan Kovacevic SRB (2586.67) 57.5
3. Georgy Evseev RUS (2804.69) 55.0
4. Piotr Murdzia POL (2772.25) 53.0
5. Vlaicu Crisan ROU (2378.03) 53.0
6. Michal Dragoun CZE (2572.65) 52.5
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18. Kostas Prentos GRC (2482.62) 46.5
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60. Harry Fougiaxis GRC (2123.41) 25.0
09-05-2009 : The problems from the first round of the 5th European Chess Solving Competition are published here.
10-05-2009 : 5 ECSC 2009, Results for Solvers and National Teams :
1. GM Piotr Murdzia, POL, points 87.5, time 317 minutes, rating 2772.25
2. GM Georgy Evseev, RUS, 83.0, 332, 2804.69
3. IM Michal Dragoun, CZE, 77.5, 317, 2572.65
4. Bojan Vuckovic, SRB, 75.5, 318, 2623.10
5. Kacper Piorun, POL, 73.5, 351, 2340.96
6. Dolf Wissmann, NED, 73.0, 339, 2551.86
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12. Kostas Prentos, GRE, 67.5, 360, 2482.62
We are very glad about the successful results of our Kostas Prentos, who remains steadily among the top solvers of the world.
In the team results only countries with 3 solvers are shown
(1) Poland 231.5 (2) Russia 226.5 (3) Serbia A 222.0 (4) Finland 204.0 (5) Ukraine 194.5 (6) Czech Republic 183.0 (7) Israel 175.0 (8) Romania 173.5 (9) Slovakia 169.5 (10) Croatia 161.0 (11) Lithuania 160.0 (12) Slovenia 159.0 (13) Belarus 154.0 (14) Great Britain 146.5 (15) Serbia B 146.0 (16) Serbia junior 109.0
11-05-2009 : Let us have a look at problem composition...
The texts about the composition contests in Subotica are extremely interesting. They are elucidating the way the Judges are thinking when they give prizes to the problems. You have the opportunity to admire some excellent creations of the composers.
Solution for the five-mover problem :
Key 1. e8=S! ( > 2. Sc7#)
1...Ra7 2. Bd1 ( > 3. Bf3#) Sg5 3. Bd3+ axb3 4. Sd1 ( > 5. Se3#) Ra1 5. Sc7#
1...Rb7 2. Sd1 ( > 3. Se3#) Bg5 3. Sc3+ bxc3 4. Bd1 ( > 5. Bf3#) Rb1 5. Sc7#
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