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Chris. Feather (cfeather@ukonline.co.uk)

Dear Mr Velimirovic,
 
John Rice has passed on to me nos. 17-24 of Mat Plus. 
 
On page 252, problem 60 is not by Nesic but by 
Fadil Abdurahmanovic (Sakkélet 1985). This problem 
was put into my h#2 collection from the original 
source but you can confirm it from the FIDE Album
(no.765). Presumably there was some confusion with
the diagrams? Perhaps Fadil has already pointed this
out to you, but I thought I should inform you anyway. 
 
On a different matter, I note that you claim publication
on your website for the originals in no.17-20. Although 
I sympathise very much with the difficulties you must
have faced in recent times, I think there is a serious
problem with claims of publication on the internet.
An unscrupulous composer could take a problem by you or
me and claim that he had already published it himself,
sometime in the past, on his own website, which is now
no longer available. Unless material on a website is
continuously available for a long period (I should say
several years) it is almost impossible to disprove such
an assertion! Of course this does not apply to Mat Plus
problems now that the magazine itself has appeared, but
the absence of hard copies is a difficulty specific to
the internet! The PCCC ought to address difficulties like
this but is of course far too busy with important questions
like who should be world champion...
 
I hope that your website is soon restored and that you find
some way of continuing your interesting magazine. I was very
pleased to see the article about Norman.
 
Best wishes,
 
Chris. Feather

Thanks to Mr. Feather for pointing out the error. The correct sources and positions of problem(s) in question are given below.
Milivoj S. Nesic
1.pl LP 1/1986
10p7PBpp2pp2RSp1qrB3p2s2P1P2K1k2S4r






h#2 3111 9+12
1.ef5 Rf5: 2.cd6 Rf2#
1.fe5 Be5: 2.ef5 Bc3#
1.cd6 Sd6: 2.fe5 Se4#
Fadil Abdurahmanovic
Sakkelet 1985
10p2p1r2r1BK4S1p8k1Bq1pp7Pp5b3S






h#2 3111 6+11
1.e1R Bf2! 2.Re4 Sd3:#
1.e1B dc3! 2.Bg3 Bg5#
1.e1S Ke7! 2.Sf3 Sh3#
The question of claiming the publication of problems on the Internet is very interesting. We would like to hear the opinion of other problemists.