Tata Steel -75 jubilee composing tourney
To celebrate the 75th edition of the super tournament a composing tourney for
endame studies has just been announced.
See here: http://akobia.geoweb.ge/intern_ty_form.html


Chessbase-25 composing tourney
Three more parts of Chessbase-25 jubilee composing tourney judges by GM John Nunn
were published:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8113
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8114
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8116


ARVES awards
Two awards of thematic memorial tourneys were In April issue of EG the quarterly for
endgame studies of ARVES:
Mark Liburkin -100 MT
http://akobia.geoweb.ge/_pages/OtherAward/PDF/Liburkin%20100%20MT.pdf
and Saja Kozlowski -100 MT
http://akobia.geoweb.ge/_pages/OtherAward/PDF/Kozlowski%20100%20MT.pdf
More about ARVES activities see here:
http://www.arves.org/English/index.htm
You may find the pgn files of all the afforementioned awards and much more in Iuri
Akobia's excellent website http://akobia.geoweb.ge/other_awards.html

More good news about the Chesscafe book of the Year:
A second edition of this successful book has been just printed and is available again:
http://www.newinchess.com/Invisible_Chess_Moves-p-960.html

Posted: May 15 - 2012

Zondag 17 juni geven Thomas Beerdsen en Karel van Delft een lezing 'SchaakMind:
beter trainen, beter schaken'.
Locatie: Denksportcentrum Apeldoorn, Dubbelbeek 24. De lezing over praktische
schaakpsychologie duurt van 13.00 - 15.00 uur (met pauze) en is gratis toegankelijk
voor wie het boek 'Het zeventiende schaakstuk' koopt of heeft gekocht.
Aansluitend aan de lezing geeft Thomas Beerdsen een simultaan en Karel van Delft
beantwoordt informeel vragen.
Vanwege een paar praktische kwesties is het wenselijk om je vooraf per email aan te
melden via karel@kvdc.nl.
Dat geldt ook voor deelname aan de simultaan, de eerste 20 mensen die zich hiervoor
aanmelden kunnen meedoen.
Zie ook www.schaaktalent.nl

Posted May 1 - 2012

The German company Chessbase celebrated last year its 25th anniversary. Frederic
Friedel, editor of chessbase.com gladly adopted my proposal to celebrate the event by
organizing a special composing tourney for endgame studies.
There were 73 entries submitted to this successful event that was skillfully directed by
Luc Palmans and judged by GM Dr. John Nunn.
You may see the first part of the instructive judge's award here:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8112

Posted: April 30 - 2012

New Composing Awards

Two of my studies were honoured recently with prizes in composing tourneys:
The first Georgian Theme Internet Tourney required reciprocal zugzwangs with more
than six pieces and attracted strong participation. Here is the definitive judge's award
in pdf (English) and pgn formats.
Here are the results of an Ukrainian tourney in pdf (Russian).
These awards and a lot more can be viewed in the excellent website of the leading
Georgian composer Iuri Akobia: http://akobia.geoweb.ge/

Posted: April 30 -2012

Zabunov theme

The study I had dedicated to my good friend  Karel van Delft  on the occasion of his
50th anniversary some five years ago has recently attracted the attention of the
Bulgarian composer Dyian Kostadinov, especially its presentation on youtube video.
He found it an interesting example of the Zabunov theme to which he has devoted
profound research over the years. You may read the story, watch the video and see
a lot more about chess composition in general here:
http://kobulchess.com/en/video/13-2011-08-07-05-02-30/95-yochanan-afek-study.html

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