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Headlines | | Friday, Jan 29, 2010 16:39 | Mat Plus and Mat Plus Review - Winter issuesMat Plus Review No.12, Winter 2009
There is a lot of good reading on the 88 pages of the last 2009 issue of Mat Plus Review, just check out the list of articles:
Sergiy Didukh: The Logical Study – Part 2: classical themes of the logical school and We all descended from a monkey..., Petko A. Petkov: Do You Compose Help-Self Stalemates? and Feather – Excelsiors, Marjan Kovačević: A Lady’s Touch In Problem Chess: An Interview With Odette Vollenweider, Iuri Akobia: About Creativity Of The Georgian Masters: IGM Josif Kriheli (1931-1988), Dragan Stojnić: En Passant Key In A Twomover, Cornel Pacurar: New series-mover length records, Juraj Lorinc: Series helpmates with two antibattery mates, John Roycroft: Polemic in the studies world (2). Also, there are reactions to older articles by Sir Jeremy Morse, Gaddy Costeff and Michael Lipton, as well as some claims by Wieland Bruch regarding the award of the twomovers informal tourney 2007 followed by the final decision by the judge Peter Gvozdjak. Finally, there is the Award of the 3rd TT by Živko Janevski and the Award of the helpmate moremovers informal tourney for 2008 by Rolf Wiehagen.
Mat Plus No.36, Winter 2009
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| | | | Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 14:25 | Autumn issues mailing delayedMany subscribers become worried because these issues, published one month ago, haven't reach you yet. This information should have been given earlier - my apologies for forgetting to do it. The reason for delay is the combination of three events which occured in succession:
1) I didn't have time to mail the magazines before the Rio Congress (2 weeks delay)
2) When I came back I had a bad cold - fortunately not a swine flu! (1 additional week delay)
3) When I finally mailed the magazines the part of Serbian Post Office was on strike (more delay)
As I received my first mail yesterday, after some 10 days of finding the empty mailbox, I assume that the strike was over and that the envelopes are at last on their way to you.
Milan Velimirovic | | | | Monday, Oct 5, 2009 12:39 | Mat Plus & Review - Autumn IssuesMat Plus Review Autumn 2009
A plenty of good reading again in the Autumn issue of Mat Plus Review. It starts with articles Components Of A Logical Stydy (S. Didukh), Gockel Type Of Đurašević Theme (D. Stojnić) and Persuit Of The King (G. Popov), followed by texts about Eugene Albert (G. Chumakov and V. Tyapkin) and Gia Nadareshvili (I. Akobia). Then there are results of composing friendly match Israel–Serbia and two informal tourneys (Threemovers 2007 and Endgames 2008), more reactions to Promotion Records, a Post Scriptum on Ideal Ruchlis and finally some Best Bytes.
Mat Plus Autumn 2009
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| | | | Sunday, Jul 19, 2009 19:27 | Liga Problemista 2009
Theme for 3rd RoundThe subject of this round are pin-mates in a serieshelpmate with two or more solution. The announcement is given in our Forum:
http://www.matplus.net/pub/start.php?app=forum&act=posts&fid=lp09&tid=577&pid=3981
PDF versions containing much more examples can be found at:
English language: http://www.milanvel.net/pub/LP2009_3_theme.pdf (142 K)
Српски језик: http://www.milanvel.net/pub/LP2009_3_tema.pdf (142 K)
What is new and particularly interesting about this round is that it will be judged by members of MatPlus.Net.
After the closing date problems will be presented in "Your comments..." application and each members will have the opportunity to make their own ranking of the entries. An extension is added to the application to provide the tool for doing that job. The final result will be calculated by summing the points from each individual judgement. More in the announcement.
Members are invited to take part in this experiment. If shown successful it will help us to define a model for another way of judging the tourneys, which will certainly open new frontiers in our chess problem life. | | | | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 01:41 | ECSC BulletinSome errors have been corrected in the official Bulletin. The updated PDF version can be downloaded from:
http://www.milanvel.net/pub/EPCF_Bulletin.pdf (1.44 MB) | | | | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 00:03 | Mat Plus & Review – New IssuesMat Plus Review Spring–Summer 2009
A 96-page double issue starts with two reactions to articles from the Winter 2008 issue. Hans Peter Rehm’s Further Examples of Räumungsopfer is a continuation of Yuri Gordians’s discussion on a popular theme, while Sir Jeremy Morse clarifies some facts from Georgy Popov’s article Promotion Records. New contribution from tireless Dragan Stojnić is The Renaissance of The Đurašević Theme in Orthodox Twinless Problems. Mark Ridley prepared an extensive overview of Fairy Kings and we are proud to announce a tourney to celebrate Mark’s 50th birthay with a theme presented in the article. Borislav Gađanski’s Active Sacrifice of White Piece and Tempo Move in Orthodox Helpmate Threemover is connected with another theme tourney, 2nd Round of Liga problemista 2009. Then, there are awards in two informal tourneys 2007: Moremovers by Hans Peter Rehm and Fairies by Petko A. Petkov. And that’s not all! Those who are still interested in twomovers will welcome Ideal Ruchlis – A Comprehensive Overview prepared by Milan Velimirović with a precious assistance from Udo Degener. The closing column MatPlus.Net: Best Bytes this time presents few editor’s favorite discussions from our Web site Forum.
Mat Plus Spring–Summer 2009
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| | | | Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 13:47 | Theme TourneysNote that today (April 15th) is the closing date for both ECSC Internet composing tourneys. Don't forget to submit your problems today because late entries cannot be accepted due the limited time the judges have to finish their job. Judging by the number of entries received until now (67 twomovers, 86 helpmates... and growing...) both tourneys are the big success!
It's now time to turn your attention to another theme tourney: the 2nd round of Liga problemista 2009 also with interesting though a little bit more demanding helpmate theme. See the announcement: http://www.matplus.net/pub/start.php?&app=forum&act=posts&fid=lp09&tid=499 | | | | Saturday, Mar 14, 2009 14:48 | Notices...Magazine
Because of some "unbreakable" material the Spring and Summer issues will be joined in one volume which will be printed in second half of April 2009. The solutions from MP31 and MP32 will appear there. Thus, there is less than 4 weeks left for submission of comments.
Starting with the Autumn issue the solutions will be printed alongside the originals, meaning that diagrams will appear on this site a month or two beforehand.
ECSC Composing Tourneys
This is a reminder that tonight (Saturday to Sunday) at midnight the themes for composing tourneys on occassion of the ECSC 2009 will be announced on ECSC pages. For now just a warning that themes will be by no means trivial, so you'd better start composing already tomorrow :)
There are two sections: direct twomovers and helpmates in 3 moves. | | |
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