36th TT Chess Composition Microweb C 4.4.2015

Thanks to the Marianka meeting I have found very good judge for the this TT CCM. Once again we are going to have something more orthodox, to keep some balance.

Announcement

Chess Composition Microweb announces formal thematical tourney for orthodox helpamtes (h#n) with all black moves made by king.

Judge: Abdelaziz Onkoud (Morocco)

The competing helpmates can be of any length. Any form of twins, multiple solutions, duplex or set play are allowed. The tourney might be divided to multiple sections if enough problems are received and depending on the opinion of the judge.

Entries should be sent by email to juraj.lorinc@gmail.com before April 4th, 2015. The award will be published at Chess Composition Microweb.

Please, let know your friends about our competition!

Strucny slovensky preklad temy: Turnaj je vypisany pre ortodoxne pomocne maty, v ktorych vsetky tahy cierneho vykonava kral.

Examples

At CCM there are already published many thematical examples, including the following:

h#3 by György Bakcsi - play of bK differs two solutions as white moves are the same in both
h#3 by Toma Garai - 2 out of 3 white officers are captured during the bK's movement
h#2 by Marco Travasoni - black King's moves form cycle of arrival squares in B1 and B2
h#3,5 by John Niemann - echo mates by promoted queen with 3 units only
h#3 by Stanislav Hudak - two distanced model mates in a miniature form
h#2 by Paz Einat & Ofer Comay - again only kings (both) play in 2 solutions, with less usual twinning mechanism
h#3 by László Apró - single solution with three wS promotions
h#2,5 by Edgar Holladay - 5 asymmetrical positions
h#2 by György Bakcsi - two walks of bK determined by board exdge proximity
h#2 by Wolfgang Pauly - four set play shows star of bK, there is also thematical s
h#2 by Evgeny Bourd - bK walks into double-pin checkmates
h#3 by Hemmo Axt - White must sacrifice own knight to give bK access to mating square
h#5 by Shlomo Seider - well unified play with nice geometry
h#2 by Hrvoje Bartolovic - 9 positions with 3x3 walks of bK
h#2 by Nikolaj Dolginovic - only kings (both) play in 2 solutions

Special example file is the following:

Orthodox h# with only king moving for black 1 - eight problems with cyclic themes.

Results

We had 91 problems competing in the tourney, submitted by 24 authors:

Alberto Armeni (Italy)
Anton Bidlen (Slovakia)
Jean Carf (France)
Udo Degener (Germany)
Emil Klemanic (Slovakia)
Jan Kovalic (Slovakia)
Juraj Lörinc (Slovakia)
Vitalij Medincev (Russia)
Karol Mlynka (Slovakia)
Dieter Müller (Germany)
Emanuel Navon (Israel)
Daniel Novomesky (Slovakia)
Charles Ouellet (Canada)
Ladislav Packa (Slovakia)
Viktoras Paliulionis (Lithuania)
Mario Parrinello (Italy)
Mechislovas Rimkus (Lithuania)
Ilija Serafimovic (Serbia)
Adrian Storisteanu (Canada)
Jaroslav Stun (Slovakia)
Ivo Tominic (Croatia)
Sven Trommler (Germany)
Menachem Witztum (Israel)
Vidadi Zamanov (Azerbaijan)

And here are the winners: the award by Abdelaziz Onkoud.

Send any claims against this award to Juraj Lörinc before December 6th, 2015, please.

Comments to Juraj Lörinc.
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