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Mat Plus Informal Tourney: Moremovers 1996
Judge: Miodrag Mladenović

Thirteen problems were published during this time period. I decided to put in the award six problems. I decided to rank 6 problems in the following order:


Milan R. Vukcevich
1.Pr Mat Plus 1996
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#4 10+10
1st Prize: No.225 by Milan R. Vukcevich (USA).
Beautiful problem with three thematically connected variations with clearances of lines for WQ. White has to sacrifice either bishop or rook to allow passage to his queen. The key is nice (destroying white battery). Perfect construction. 1.Qc1! ~ 2.Bf4+ Kf6: 3.Be5+! Ke5: 4.Qf4#; 1... Kf6: 2.Bg5+ Kg7 3.Bf6+! Kf6: 4.Qg5# (3... Kf8 4.Rc8#); 1... Kd6: 2.Rc6+ Kd7 3.Rd6+! Kd6: 4.Qc7# (3... Ke8 4.Qc8#) (2... Ke5 3.Qc5+ Kf6: 4.Qg5#).

Victor Melnichenko
2.Pr Mat Plus 1996
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#5* 9+10
2nd Prize: No.226 by Victor Melnichenko (Ukraine).
In this very well constructed problem in initial position BK can not move because of the short mate in 3 moves. However white does not have tempo move. The only way for white to achieve checkmate in 5 is to move his rook around rectangle g5-g8-d8-d5-g5. Excellent idea. 1... Ke4 2.Rh5: f4 3.Re5#, 2... Kf4 3.Rh4#; 1.Rh5:? Ke4! 2.?? (zugzwang!); 1.Rg8! Ke4 2.Rf8! Kf4 3.Rd8! (3.Rh8?! Ke4 4.Rh5:, but 3... Kg4!) 3... Kg4 4.Rd5! (~) f4 5.Rg5# (Rook reached the same square from which it begun its way - Author), 4... Kf4 5.Rd4#, 2... f4 3.Sg5+ Kd4 3.S1f3+ Kc4 4.Rf4:#.

Milovan Belić
1.HM Mat Plus 1996
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#4 6+4
1st Hon. Mention: No.197 by Milovan Belic (Yugoslavia).
Very nice variations after not so good key. Couple of model mates and very enjoyable problem for solving. 1.Qg1! e5 2.Bc8(~) Kf3 3.Bg4+ Kf4 4.Qc1# (model), 2... e4 3.Sh5+ Kf3,Ke5 4.Bg4,Qc5#; 1... Ke5 2.Qg5+ Kd4 3.Ba6 (~) e5 4.Qg1# (model, 2... Kd6 3.Sg8 (~) Kc7,Kd7,e5 3.Qe7#; 1... Kf5 2.Sh7 (3.Qg5) Ke5 3.Qc5+ Kf4 4.Qg5#, 2... e5 3.Bd5 ~ 4.Qg5#.

Aleksandr Chistyakov & Borislav Stojanović
2.HM Mat Plus 1996
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#8 12+12
2nd Hon. Mention: No.198 by Aleksandr Chistyakov (Lithuania ) & Borislav Stojanovic (Yugoslavia).
Plachutta interference on two squares (e3 & e4). It's interesting how BQs are moved one line up systematically. Interesting play. I enjoyed solving this problem. 1.Rg7? Rf1!; 1.Rh7! Rh2: 2.Rg7 Qc1 3.Rc7 g1Q 4.e3! (4.e4? bc2!) Qg2+ 5.Kb8: Qc2 6.e4! Qce4:,Qge4: 7.Rc5+,Rg5+ Qd5,Qf5 8.Rg5,Rc5:#, (3... Sc6 4.Sd7:+ Kd5 5.Sef6+ Kd6: 6.Se8+ Kd5 7.e4 Kc4 8.Sd6#).

Mirko Miljanić
3.HM Mat Plus 1996
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#93 2+14
3rd Hon. Mention: No.167 by Mirko Miljanić (Yugoslavia).
Although mechanism of loosing a tempo is very familiar from some other moremovers every task deserves some recognition. 1.f8Q+ Ke1 2.Qa3: (2.Qc5? Sf3+ 3.Kg3 Rdc1 4.Qf2+ Kd1 5.Qf3 Sb5! 6.Kf2 Sd4(c3) and no mate) Rdc1 (2... Kf1 3.Qf8+ Ke1 4.Qc5! and mates in few moves, because there is no Sa3) 3.Qg3+ Kd1 4.Qg4! a6 5.Qh5 Ke1 6.Qh4+ Kf1! 7.Qf4+ Ke1 8.Qg3+ Kd1 9.Qg4! a5 ... 84... d3 89.Qg4! Sf3! 90.Qf3: Ke1 91.Qg3+ Kd1 92.Qg4! Ke1 93.Qg1#.

Miodrag Radomirović
(after J. Knöppel)
4.HM Mat Plus 1996

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#69 9+9
4th Hon. Mention: No.199 by Miodrag Radomirović (Yugoslavia) - after J. Knöppel.
Good extension of existing task. 1.Kg2! [White has to avoid check and stop b-c-d chain: 1.h3? (1.Kg1?) b4! 2.cb4 c3 3.b5 c2! 4.bc6 Ka8 5.c7 c1Q+! 6.Kg2 Qc5!] 1... Ka8 [Black has not tempo-check on first rank any more (1... b4??), but White still has to hurry because now he has not tempo-check 2.bc6 (2.h3?? b4!)] 2.Kf1 g4! [High time for Black to secure more space (time) on the right-hand side of the board (2... Kb7? 3.h3/f3!)] 3.Ke1 Kb7 4.Kd1 5.Kc1 6.Kb1!! [6.Kb2? Ka8 7.Ka3? Kb7 ... 9.Ka5 Kb7!; 7.Ka2? b4! 8.Kb2 b3! - WK is too far from d1) 6... Ka8 7.Kb2! Kb7 8.Ka3 Ka8 9.Kb4 Kb7 10.Ka5 h6 11.Kb4 etc, as from 8th move in Knöppel's problem (diagram below).

Jan Knöppel
Springaren 1962
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#66 9+9
1.Kb4 Ka8 2.Ka3 Kb7 3.Ka2 4.Kb2 5.Ka3 6.Kb4 7.Ka5 h6 8.Kb4 9-14.Ka5 h5 15-21.Ka5 h4 28.Ka5 h3 35.Ka5 g6 42.Ka5 g5 49.Ka5 g3 50.fg3 g4 51.Kb4 55.Kc1 59.Ka5 b4 60.Kb4: 61.Ka5 Kb7 62.a8Q+ Ka8: 63.Ka6 Kb8 64.b7 Kc7 65.Ka7 Kd8 66.b8Q#

Belgrade, June 28th 2006
Miodrag Mladenović


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