Torneos Formales

  MEMORIAL TOURNEY JORGE MARCELO KAPROS 2024-2025

Kapros died in Moreno, Province of Buenos Aires, on August 27, 2023 at the age of 67. During his life, he resided in the city of El Palomar, Argentina.. He had the title of International Master of the FIDE for Chess Composition.

The Unión Argentina de Problemistas de Ajedrez (UAPA) organizes the Memorial Tourney Jorge Marcelo Kapros, containing three sections- Theme free:

Twomovers (#2) Judge: Miguel Uris (Spain)

Helpmates (h#2) Judge: Ricardo de Mattos Vieira (Brazil)

Helpmates (h#3) Judge: Jorge Joaquín Lois (Argentina)

Please send your entry with diagram, full solution, name and address of author, to the tournament director: Mario Guido García, producer and editor the UAPA. E-mail:marioggarcia@gmail.com  –  All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.

Prizes, honourable  mentions, commendations and special nominations will be awarded.- The preliminary and final award will be published  in mid-2025 will be available in the  website  https://www.problemistasajedrez.com.ar,    and will be sent to all participants by e-mail –  Closing date: 30th November 2024

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SLOVAK CHESS UNION  (SŠZ) -2024
Slovak Organization for Chess Composition (SOKŠ) in cooperation with Slovak Chess Union (SŠZ) announces international chess composition tourney for endgame studies SŠZ 100 JT. Judge: Péter Gyarmati (Hungary), director:  Ľuboš Kekely (kekely@zmail.sk). Closing date: 29.6.2024. At most 3 compositions by one author (including joint compositions). The award will be published still in 2024, preliminary award on the SOKŠ website (https://soks.sk/). Prizes for the competition will be announced in upcoming weeks.
SHAKKI 100 JT
Shakki, the Finnish chess magazine, was founded in 1924 with the name Suomen Shakki. The magazine announces an international composing competition Shakki 100 JT in two groups, both with free theme:
A. Studies, judge Pauli Perkonoja
B. Moremovers, judge Jorma Paavilainen
The entries, not more than three from one composer in each section, joint entries included, to the tournament director Neal Turner via email: nealturnerfinland@hotmail.com    The deadline is 30th of June 2024.
In each section there will be three prizes of 100, 70 and 50 EUR. The awards will be published during the year 2024

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TOURNEY  “FOR THE TRIUMPH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW”
to commemorate the Chess Composition Day

The Federation for Chess Composition of the city of Dnipro and the
Editorial Board of the magazine Problemist of Ukraine announce an international
tourney “FOR THE TRIUMPH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW” to commemorate
the Chess Composition Day.
Sections:
1. Twomovers (#2). Judge: Vasyl Dyachuk.
2. Endgame studies. Judge: Vladyslav Tarasyuk.
3. Helpmates (H#2-n). Judge: Valery Semenenko.
4. Helpselfmates (Hs#2-n). Judge: Oleksandr Semenenko.
Free themes.
Original compositions are to be emailed before December 10, 2023, to:
chessproblem@i.ua
All participants will receive the tourney award by email on January 4, 2024,
the International Chess Composition Day.

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TORNEO UDO DEGENER -64  & MIRKO DEGENKOLBE-60

VER ANUNCIO – THERE  (ACÁ)

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The Committee on Chess Composition of the Ukrainian Chess Federation

and the editors of the magazine «Problemist of Ukraine»

announce an international tournament in memory of the famous Ukrainian study composer, four-time champion of Ukraine

Stanislav Bilokin

The judge of the competition is Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine). .

The theme of the competition is free. Prizes, honorable and honorable mentions have been established.

Special awards are provided for studies with an echo-variant game in the solution.

The award of the competition will be announced in April 2024 and published in the magazine «Problemist of Ukraine».

Send original works by February 21, 2024 to e-mail address of the judge-organizer Volodymyr Samilo: vlsamilo@gmail.com

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10th Composing Tourney of FRME, 2024

The Royal Moroccan Chess Federation (FRME) organizes the 10th Composing Tourney in four 7 sections:

Twomovers (#2) Judge: Aleksandr Derevchuk (Ukraine)
Send to tournament director: Mustapha Bakani (Marocco) E-mail:bakanim@gmail.com

Threemovers (#3) Judge: Valery Kirillov (Russia)
Moremovers (#N) Judge: Elmar Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)
Studies (+;=) Judge: Marek Halski (Poland)
Selfmates (S#) Judge: Jiří Jelínek (Czech Republic)
Send to tournament director:Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan) E-mail:vidadi.zamanov@gmail.com
Helpmates H#2 Judge: Franz Pachl (Germany)
Helpmates H#2.5-3 Judge: Christopher Jones (Great Britain)
Helpmates H#3.5-N Judge: Mike Prcic(USA)
Send to tournament director: Jamal M Elbaz (Morocco) E-mail: jamalelbaz4@gmail.com
The theme in all sections is free.Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded. Send problems and studies in format Word and PDF.
Closing date: 30. 09. 2024. The award – 2024 –All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form. Award will be published on the website: frme.fr.nf

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HAROLD VAN DER HEIJDEN

has released a new version (HHdbVI) of his Endgame study database !!

It contains now 93839 endgame studies !!!

(On his website you also can find this leaflet, which you can open here as well, with detailed

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