Sad news for the world of chess, Pál Benkő died today at the age of 91.
See here one smart composition by P.B., Problem-156 (also read the comment) : http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.com/2008/07/proof-game-with-theme-pronkin-etc.html
Monday, August 26, 2019
Sunday, May 05, 2019
Friday, May 03, 2019
ECSC_14, Athens 2019, Participants
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ECSC 14
3-5 May 2019, Glyfada, Greece
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| flag | Country | Participants |
 | Belarus BLR (2) | Bulauka, Aliaksandr Sihnevich, Mikalai |
 | Belgium BEL (1) | Van Beers, Eddy |
 | Brazil BRA (1) | Roland, Marcos, (visitor) |
 | Finland FIN (6) | Hurme, Harri Hurme, Riitta Karhunen, Anna-Leena Karhunen, Kari Paavilainen, Jorma Tanner, Henry |
 | Germany GER (2) | Tummes, Boris Linss, Torsten |
 | Great Britain GBR (6) |
Cook, Brian Hodge, David McDowell, Michael Mestel, Jonathan Nunn, John Watson, Ian |
 | Greece GRE (23) | Aggelis, Efthymios Rafail Alexandrou, Anastassios Anemodouras, Leokratis Athanasopoulos, Kyriakos Dimitriadis, Alexandros Fougiaxis, Harry Garoufalidis, Ioannis Kalyva, Kyriaki Katsadoros-Fengeros, Konstantinos Kefsikoglou, Petroula Konidaris, Panagiotis Koulis, Vasilis Manolas, Emmanuel Masouros, Panagiotis Mendrinos, Nikos Mitsakis, Konstantinos Papargyriou, Anastasis Papastavropoulos, Andreas Petridis, Evaggelos Sidiropoulos, Nikos Sklavounos, Panagis Skyrianoglou, Dimitris Spiliadis, Athanasios |
 | Israel ISR (2) | Chovnik, Mordechay Friedland, Omer |
 | Lithuania LTU (11) | Chocenka, Benas Chocenka, Dmitrijus Chocenkiene, Milda Limontas, Martynas Paliulionis, Viktoras Satkus, Vidmantas Satkus, Vilimantas Satkute, Gita Satkute, Iveta Satkuviene, Stase Steponavicius, Stasys |
 | Nederlands NED (5) | Uitenbroek, Hans Uitenbroek, Koen Uitenbroek, Lotte Vermeer, Juliana Wissmann, Dolf |
 | North Makedonia NMK (1) | Denkovski, Ivan |
 | Poland POL (4) | Górski, Piotr Królikowski, Ryszard Murdzia, Piotr Piorun, Kacper |
 | Roumania ROU (2) | Didiliuc, Dariana - Gabriela Duca, Delia Monica |
 | Russia RUS (9) | Kopyl, Sergei Kosolapova, Lilia Moiseev, Danila Pavlov, Danila Pletnev, Dmitry Popov, Aleksey Romanov, Maxim Selivanov, Andrey Viktorov, Evgeny |
 | Serbia SRB (5) | Kovačević, Marjan Mladenović, Miodrag Perović, Živojin Serafimović, Dijana Serafimović, Ilija |
 | Slovakia SVK (4) | Dobiáš, Richard Klemanič Emil Kolčák, Marek Mihalčo, Oto |
 | Slovenia SLO (1) | Šivic, Klemen |
 | Suisse SUI (1) | Ott, Roland |
 | Ukraine UKR (4) | Borodavkin, Sergey Kopyl, Valery Pogorelov, Vladimir Solovchuk, Oleksiy |
| . | 19 Countries | 90 participants |
(Last Update : Monday, 2019/04/29)
ECSC_14, Athens 2019
14th
European Chess Solving Championship
3-5 May
2019, Glyfada, Greece
Invitation
The Greek Chess Composition
Committee of the Greek Chess Federation has the honor to invite the european
national teams and individual solvers to participate in the 14th
European Chess Solving Championship. The event will be held from Friday, May 3rd
(arrival) to Sunday, May 5th (departure) at the “Oasis Hotel
Apartments” in Glyfada, a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens. The hotel is the same
that hosted the ECSC 2016.
SCHEDULE
Captains’ meeting: Friday,
May 3, 16:30-16:45
Open solving tournament:
Friday, May 3, 17:00-20:00
ECSC 1st day: Saturday,
May 4, 10:30-14:00
ECSC 2nd day: Sunday, May 5,
9:30-13:00
Closing ceremony: Sunday, May
5, 16:00 (approximately)
ACCOMMODATION
Hotel Oasis (http://oasishotelapartments.com)
features fully equipped and renovated apartments, with private balcony.
Restaurant, bar and coffee shop are also available. All competitions and events
will be hosted within the hotel facilities and halls. The swimming pool (non
heated) is open from May 1st (10:30-18:45).
Prices per person per day
(bed and breakfast included):
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Single room: 81€
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Double room: 58€
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Triple room: 51€
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Quadruple room: 43€
Prices include all taxes, free
access to the hotel health and recreation facilities, as well as participation
fees to all regular solving tournaments. These prices are also valid 3 days
before and after the event. All payments should be made to the organizers, upon
arrival, in cash (€).
The
participation fee for those not staying in Oasis Hotel is 50€. It would be very important
for us to make the reservation until the 11th of March. After this date an additional 20€ fee per reservation applies and the organization
committee cannot guarantee the room availability.
TRANSPORT
The express bus X96
departs right outside the arrival level of the Main Terminal Building at the
exit 4 of the airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” (Athens). X96 runs 24 hours every
20-40 minutes. The bus needs 35-45 minutes to reach the hotel, which is located
just next to the bus stop “4th Glyfadas”. The one way
ticket costs 6€. Tickets are available from the bus driver or from ticket
kiosk at the bus departure area of the airport.
By taxi, the max cost (including
luggage, taxes, etc.) is 38€ (from 5:00 to 24:00) or 54€ (from 24:00 to 5:00).
MEALS
Accommodation
prices include only breakfast. Participants can, on their expense, have snacks
“a la carte” in the hotel or they can pre-order (one day earlier) to the hotel
a full meal which costs 15€. All payments and arrangements for
meals will be made directly with the hotel and not through the organizing
committee. Alternatively, there are also many restaurants within a short
distance (15 minutes on foot).
DIRECTORS, ORGANIZERS, INFORMATION
Director of the ECSC will
be Ivan Denkovski assisted by Ioannis Garoufalidis and Harry Fougiaxis.
Director of the open
solving tournament will be Ioannis Garoufalidis.
Organization: Nikos &
George Mendrinos in co-operation with the Greek Chess Composition Committee.
The email of the event is:
ecsc2019@gmail.com
All the information about
the event will be published on the site:
VISAS
The organizing committee
will provide invitation for visas. Teams or players needing visas are requested
to contact the organizing committee.
REGISTRATION
Please, fill our form
before 11th of March!
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