International Solving Contest, Bern

An International Open Solving Contest is organized in Bern, Switzerland.

The Announcement here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6V2N1YUFKem9YNTg/view?usp=sharing

Solving contest ESSNA-12, 13-ix-2015

Results from the Solving Contest for Attica Championship (13-September-2015), organized by ESSNA (Union of Chess Clubs in Attica, Greece):

1. Attica Champion Papastavropoulos Andreas, points 23/30
2. Mendrinos Nikolaos, p. 20/30
3. Manolas Emmanuel, p. 19/30

The 6 problems:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6bXg4UnJUbWNTVWc/view?usp=sharing

The solutions :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6SFdldWh3RHpMd0U/view?usp=sharing

Table of the participants:

Rank	Name	ΕLO	Points
1	Papastavropoulos, Andreas	2,247.96	23
2	Mendrinos, Nikos	2,359.58	20
3	Manolas, Emmanuel	1,737.54	19
4	Sklavounos, Panagis	1,951.17	16
5	Fougiaxis, Harry	1,995.32	15
6-7	Konidaris, Panagiotis	2,080.15	13
6-7	Anemodouras, Leokratis	1,870.59	13
8	Kostouros, Alexis	2,032.64	12,5
9	Petridis, Evaggelos	1,675.57	9
10	Vlachos, Elissaios	1,909.53	8,5
11	Anastasiou, Marios	1,600.00	5
12-13	Bouza, Myrto-Eleni	1,015.86
12-13	Bouzas, Sotirios	1,365.04

Award for Manolas-65 JT

Award (29-VIII-2015) for Manolas-65 Jubilee Tourney

English:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6N1lhWjNQckpMOWs/view?usp=sharing

Greek:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6VTNIeEFKOWF5QmM/view?usp=sharing

Manolas-65 JT : Winners

Section A (helpmate h#2, in HotF (Helpmate of the Future) form, with at least two pairs of related solutions), Judge : Ioannis Kalkavouras (Greece)

Vasil Krizhanivskyi (Ukraine) : 1^st Prize, 5^th Honourable Mention // Abdelaziz Onkoud (Morocco) : 2^nd Prize, 3^rd Honourable Mention, 4^th Honourable Mention // Eugene Fomichev (Russia) : 3^rd Prize // Aleksandr Semenenko (Ukraine) : 1^st Honourable Mention // Ladislav Packa (Slovakia) : 2^nd Honourable Mention ex aequo // Emil Klemanič (Slovakia) : 2^nd Honourable Mention ex aequo // Nikos Pergialis (Greece) : Commendation // Jorge Lois (Argentina) : Commendation // Jorge Karpos (Argentina) : Commendation // Dieter Müller (Germany) : Commendation // Vladislav Nefyodov (Russia) : Commendation

Section B (direct mate #2, with one fairy condition and/or one fairy piece type), Judge : Emmanuel Manolas (Greece)

Juraj Lörinc (Slovakia) : 1^st Prize, 2^nd Commendation // Vasyl Dyachuk (Ukraine) : 2^nd Prize, 3^rd Honourable Mention ex aequo // Alberto Armeni (Italy) : 3^rd Prize, 2^nd Honourable Mention, 1^st Commendation, 3^rd Commendation // Joaquim Crusats (Spain) : 1^st Honourable Mention ex aequo // Andrey Frolkin (Ukraine) : 1^st Honourable Mention ex aequo // Hubert Gockel (Germany) : 3^rd Honourable Mention ex aequo // Dieter Müller (Germany) : 4^th Commendation, 5^th Commendation

New version for Popeye software

You know that there are many software tools for chess problems.
You may find information here http://www.wfcc.ch/software/

For example:

In order to create position images and a file for your problems, there is Fancy.
It is copyrighted (C) by Marek Kwiatkowski.
I have version 2.81, you may look for a newer edition.

In order to solve problems, Fancy can use the software tool Popeye.
Mr Thomas Maeder is looking after it.
He has recently announced the version 4.73 : github.com/thomas-maeder/popeye/releases/tag/v4.73

Next big international events

12th International Solving Contest (ISC) on Sunday 24.1.2016, directors Axel Steinbrink and Luc Palmans. It was clarified that participants in the category C (young solvers) should have been born after 24th of January 2003.

12th European Chess Solving Championship (ECSC) in Athens, Greece 15-17 April 2016.

59th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) and 40th World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) in Belgrade, Serbia 30 July – 6 August 2016