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The recently concluded 9th World Chess Composition Tournament (2012-2013) held by WFCC* was a marathon event. 257 composers from 37 countries participated and as many as 553 entries in 7 individual sections were submitted for prize selection. Russia was first, followed by Ukraine and Israel in this prestigious tournament.
The following award winner is for your delectation.
Two-mover Section: First Prize
Pavel Murashev
Anatoly Slerashenko
Aleksandr Feoktistov
White to play and mate in two moves
*World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC)
This is our first review of NiC Yearbooks. It offers a critical introduction to these special issues from New in Chess Publishing House. GM analysis tends to be dense and complex. So we have simplified the matter and added explanation wherever necessary for the uninitiated player-Ed.
In the following position, White is already a rook and knight down. Should he seek a win or try to find a draw?
This is a position arising out of Kasparov’s analysis of The Immortal Game
(Anderssen-Kieseritzky 1851) in Vol. I of My Great Predecessors
(Everyman Chess.2003)
In his last review chessbibliophile dealt with the first volume of this series that traced the rise of Mikhail Botvinnik through 1920s and 30s.
In this review he deals with the second volume that describes Botvinnik’s ascent of the chess Olympus and his struggle to remain on top thereafter. We have also added links to some rare historic footage on World Championship 1948.-Ed.
Have you ever wondered when the game of chess was invented and how it developed throughout many centuries?
Do you know when en passant rule was introduced or who was the first official world champion? If you want to know the answers to these questions about chess and much more keep reading the chess timeline.
Dragan Stojnic
1st Prize, FIDE Olympic Tourney, Istanbul 2012
White to play and mate in two moves
Oleg Pervakov (1960-) is an outstanding Russian composer with about 200 studies to his credit. Many of them have won awards. A few years ago he was honoured with the title, Grandmaster of Composition by FIDE. Pervakov, a distinguished scientist in plasma physics joined 64, the Russian magazine to devote more time for chess.
Recently he and fellow-composer, Karen Sumbatyan* shared the First and Second Prize with Yury Bazlov in the Composing Competition held on the occasion of Tata Steel Tournament 2013 for the following study. Enjoy!
In his last article chessbibliophile offered a review of the site ChessPublishing.com:
From this month he would discuss selected opening updates from the site-Ed.
Marjan Kovačević (1957-) is an outstanding Serbian chess problemist. His work has received a number of prizes. He has also co-authored a book, 2345 Chess problems – Anthology of Chess Combinations with late Milan Velimorović.
Marjan Kovačević
The following two-mover won the First Prize in the FIDE World Cup Competition 2011.
White to move and mate in two moves
Credits:
Picture: Courtesy of Wikipedia
The other day I was poring over updates from ChessPublishing.com, a site dedicated to opening theory. My friend, Max was bemused.
“Is theory so important?”
