During the 37th International Chess Festival Icaros, (Agios Kirikos, Ikaria island, Greece, July 12-20 2014), a solving contest was held with easy problems.
The Greek solving Champion Nikos Mendrinos has selected the problems.
Here you may see
the problems https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6bjZWRnpnTGRXelU/edit?usp=sharing
and the solutions https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6N2FrbS1rcUtWdkE/edit?usp=sharing
The solvers gathered the following points (5 per correct solution)
1. Kampanis Nikos, 29 points
2. Sienczewski Zbigniew 26,5 p.
3. Diamantakos Giannis 18 p.
4. Diamantakos Sotiris 16 p.
5. Poulos Stylianos 15 p.
6. Stamatiou Rodolfos 11 p.
7. Stamatiou Christos
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Composition Tourneys in Bern, 2014
Normally, you might see announcements for composition tourneys, as they are appearing in succession, in the page of World Congress for Chess Composition, Bern 2014, specifically in the page:
Composing
Meanwhile we may learn about some composition tourneys before they appear in the official page, so we will present them here:
5th Composition Tourney Bulgarian Wine 2014
In the blog of chess tourneys and awards you may find tourneys for which the administrators of the blog have received announcements.
Especially for August 2014 we see these.
Composing
Meanwhile we may learn about some composition tourneys before they appear in the official page, so we will present them here:
5th Composition Tourney Bulgarian Wine 2014
In the blog of chess tourneys and awards you may find tourneys for which the administrators of the blog have received announcements.
Especially for August 2014 we see these.
Monday, June 23, 2014
13th Greek Championship in Solving, 2014
The 13th Greek Championship in Solving Chess Problems this year went to Patras, Greece, first time away from Athens.
It was organized by The Patras Chess Group (SOP) and was hosted by the Chamber of Achaia in a very nice conference room, and there were 24 participants. Available time for solving : 3 hours.
Here you may see the problems, selected by the judge Ioannis Garoufalidis, who said the problems were easy because he decided to lower the level a bit so that more solvers can solve them, and their solutions.
With 5 points per problem, solving 12 problems you get 60 points maximum.
The problems ...
... and their solutions.
It was organized by The Patras Chess Group (SOP) and was hosted by the Chamber of Achaia in a very nice conference room, and there were 24 participants. Available time for solving : 3 hours.
| Surname Name | nr. 1 |
nr. 2 |
nr. 3 |
nr. 4 |
nr. 5 |
nr. 6 |
nr. 7 |
nr. 8 |
nr. 9 |
nr. 10 |
nr. 11 |
nr. 12 |
total | mins | rank | up to 18 |
w |
| Mendrinos Nikos | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 180 | 1 | |||||
| Papastavropoulos Andreas | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 180 | 2 | |||||||
| Konidaris Panagiotis | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 180 | 3 | ||||||
| Spyropoulos Giorgos | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 180 | 4 | ||||||
| Spiliadis Athanasios | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 180 | 5 | ||||||||
| Fougiaxis Harry | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 180 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Triantos Konstantinos | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 167 | 7 | v | |||||||
| Betsos Titos | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 180 | 8, 9 | |||||||||||
| Pountzas Chrysanthos | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 180 | 8, 9 | |||||||||
| Alexandrou Anastasios | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 180 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Masouros Panagiotis | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 180 | 11 | ||||||||
| Malataras Gerasimos | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 180 | 12 | v | ||||||||
| Athanasopoulos Kyriakos | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 170 | 13 | v | ||||||||||
| Vaggopoulos Anastasios | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 180 | 14 | ||||||||
| Stamatopoulos Apostolos | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 161 | 15 | v | ||||||||
| Zaronikas Dimitris | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 168 | 16 | v | ||||||||
| Manolas Emmanuel | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 180 | 17 | ||||||||
| Kalyva Kyriaki | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 171 | 18, 20 | v | v | |||||
| Mavromati Aggeliki | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 171 | 18, 20 | v | ||||||||||
| Kakoulidis Vasilis | 5 | 5 | 171 | 18, 20 | v | ||||||||||||
| Betsos Nicolas-Evaggelos | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 173 | 21 | v | ||||||||
| Stefanatos Gerasimos | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 180 | 22 | v | ||||||
| Stamatopoulos Giorgos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 180 | 23 | v |
Here you may see the problems, selected by the judge Ioannis Garoufalidis, who said the problems were easy because he decided to lower the level a bit so that more solvers can solve them, and their solutions.
With 5 points per problem, solving 12 problems you get 60 points maximum.
The problems ...
... and their solutions.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
German Championship in Solving, 2014
For your information, and for a chance of training for chess solvers, we present here the compositions given to participants in the German Solving Champioship 2014, in Illertissen.
First round, Twomovers --- Solutions for first round
Second round, Threemovers --- Solutions for second round
Third round, Studies --- Solutions for third round
Fourth round, Selfmates --- Solutions for fourth round
Fifth round, Moremovers --- Solutions for fifth round
Sixth round, Helpmates --- Solutions for sixth round
Results
First round, Twomovers --- Solutions for first round
Second round, Threemovers --- Solutions for second round
Third round, Studies --- Solutions for third round
Fourth round, Selfmates --- Solutions for fourth round
Fifth round, Moremovers --- Solutions for fifth round
Sixth round, Helpmates --- Solutions for sixth round
Results
Saturday, June 07, 2014
Some two-movers for you to solve
Here are some two-movers for you to see how easily you can solve them.
White plays, the Black tries to find adequate answer, but in the second move White mates.
You may try sacrifices, checks, anything you can think of, anyway the key-move is unique.
The solution and the comments are visible when you select the area between the brackets [ ].
White plays, the Black tries to find adequate answer, but in the second move White mates.
You may try sacrifices, checks, anything you can think of, anyway the key-move is unique.
The solution and the comments are visible when you select the area between the brackets [ ].
| Problem-770 Nikos Pergialis original |
 #2 |
| Solution : [Tries : {1.Sa5+? Bxa5!}, {1.Sc5+? Sxc5!}, {1.Re3+? Sxe3!}, {1.Qc2+? Bxc2!}, {1.Qc3+? bxc3!}, {1.Qc4+? dxc4!}, {1.Qc6? [2.Qxd5#] e6!}, {1.Qc7? [2.Sa5#] Bxc7!}, {1.Qxd7? [2.Sc5# / Qxd5#] bxa3!}, {1.Qxd8? [2.Sa5#] bxa3!} Key : 1.Qc5! [2.Qxd5#] 1…Se3 / Sxc5 / Sb6 / Be2 / Bf3 / Rxd4 / e6 / bxa3 2.Rxe3# / Sxc5# / Sa5# / Qc2# / Qc2# / Bxd1# / Qxb4# / Qc3# Sacrificial key and many tries for careless solvers.] |
| Problem-771 Emmanuel Manolas Place 8, Asthma-2013, Zagreb |
 #2 |
| Solution : [Tries : {1.Rg4+? Bxg4!}, {1.Rg8+? Kxh4!}, {1.Bb4? [2.Be1#] Sd2!}, {1.Bc5? [2.Bf2#] Se3!}, {1.Bd6+? Sxd6!}, {1.Bg7? [2.Be5#] d6!}. Key : 1.Bh6! [2.Bf4#] Bg4 2.Rxg4# In this composition you see the Theme Elmgren, where all the black pieces have defences in the various tries.] |
| Problem-772 Emmanuel Manolas original |
 #2 |
| Solution : [Tries : {1.Sxf7+? Ke6!}, {1.Re4+? Kf5!}, {1.Rxd5+? Kxd5!}, {1.Qe4+? Rxe4!}, {1.Kh6+? / Kh7+? / Kf8+? / Kg8+? f6!} Key : 1.Qf5+! 1…Kxd4 2.Qxf4# 1…Kxf5 2.Rxd5#, 1…Bxf5 2.Sc6#, 1…Rxf5 2.Re4#, 1…gxf5 2.Kxf7# We see a checking key with a queen sacrifice, which can be captured by four black pieces. The interesting thing here is the Anti-triple : Bd7xf5 / Rf4xf5 / g6xf5, where from the three mating moves Sc6 / Re4 / Kxf7 only one is valid after each black move.] |
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