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MatPlus.Net Forum Competitions IV CACHAÇA TOURNEY
 
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(1) Posted by Marcos Roland [Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 20:28]; edited by Marcos Roland [17-07-26]

IV CACHAÇA TOURNEY


The Brazilian problemists attending the 60th Congress da WFCC announce the IV Cachaça Tourney. Unfortunately, we couldn't work out the idea and the examples for this tourney in the term prescribed in the schedule of the Congress. So, we don't present it as an "unofficial tournament" of the meeting, but we don't mean any kind of a "protest" against the rules established by the organizers, which, we are sure, were laid down with the best of the intentions.

IV CACHAÇA TOURNEY
60TH CONGRESS OF THE WFCC
DRESDEN, 2017

Exigency: Helpmates in 3-n moves, with at least two solutions
Theme: “echo play” – same sequence of move lengths must be shown in all solutions in n moves, either in all White moves or in all Black moves (or in both, but this is not an exigency). Multi-solutions and twins are accepted (no zeroposition). No fairy pieces / conditions.
Entries must be computer tested.
Move lengths: orthogonal one square move: 1; diagonal one square move: 1.41; knight move: 2.41; short castle: 2; long castle: 3.
Judge: Ricardo Vieira
Send entries to Marcos Roland by email (marcosroland1950@gmail.com)
Deadline: August 10, 2017 – Thursday – 10 pm
Prizes: bottles of “cachaça”, the Brazilian liquor. The tourney is open to everyone, but just the congress participants can receive the bottles.

Examples:

I
Original by Marcos Roland
Dedicated to the participants of the 60th Congress of the WFCC
(= 6+12 )

h#4 2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1

1.Lf5 Kd1 2.Ke6 Ke1 3.Le7 Td1 4.Df6 Lc4#
1.Lg6 a4 2.Kf5 a5 3.Lf6 Ta4 4.Dg5 Lc8#
Thematic sequence:
White – 1/1/4/2.82

II
Christer Jonsson & Rolf Wiehagen
Problem Echo 2005 - 24th TTy
1st prize
(= 3+4 )

h#7 2.1…

1.Tf3 gxf3+ 2.Kd3 f4 3.Kc2 f5 4.Kxb2 f6 5.Ka1 f7 6.b2 f8=D 7.b1=T Da3#
1.Tc3 bxc3 2.Ke3 c4 3.Kf2 c5 4.Kxg2 c6 5.Kh1 c7 6.g2 c8=D 7.g1=T Dh3#
Thematic sequence: White – 1.41 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 7.05

III
Reinhardt Fiebig
Harmonie - 09/2009
(= 3+4 )

h#7 2.1…

1.g5 h4 2.gxh4 g4 3.h3 g5 4.h2 g6 5.h1=L gxh7 6.Lc6 h8=D 7.La4 Db2#
1.h5 g4 2.hxg4 h4 3.g3 h5 4.g2 h6 5.g1=L hxg7 6.Lc5 g8=D 7.Lb4 Da2#
Thematic sequence: White – 2 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1.41 / 1 / 8.46
 
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(2) Posted by Marcos Roland [Wednesday, Aug 16, 2017 08:05]

IV CACHAÇA TOURNEY
60th WCCC
DRESDEN 2017

AWARD

SOME WORDS BY THE DIRECTOR MARCOS ROLAND

This was a tourney for h#3-n, with at least two solutions. The thematic exigency was stipulated in the following words: “’echo play’ – same sequence of move lengths must be shown in all solutions in n moves, either in all White moves or in all Black moves (or in both, but this is not an exigency). Multi-solutions and twins are accepted (no zeroposition). No fairy pieces / conditions.”

I consider this an unusual exigency, and I must say that my first idea was to demand “echo play with echo mates”. But it seemed to me that so restrictive exigency would drastically limit the creative possibilities, apart from raising some controversy about the precise scope of the concept of “echo mates”. Anyway, I think that if some authors had stablished as a goal to combine “echo play” with echo mates, restrictive as it may be, they could have overcome the difficulties inherent to the theme, and the number of entries should be greater.

Fifteen originals by eleven composers of six different countries were submitted, and I think the tourney was a success, given the hardness of the theme, the little time to compose and the length (3 or more moves) required.

I would like to take the opportunity to sincerely thank to all the participants, distinguished composers which accepted the challenge, and produced some fine pieces of work. And I invite all to participate in the next issue of the Cachaça Tourney, in Ohrid 2018!

The ranking proposed by the judge, Ricardo Vieira, to whom I thank very much for his dedicated and hard work, is as follows:


Valery Gurov (Russia)
1st Prize
(= 5+14 )

H#3 b) -bPf2

Solutions:
a) 1.Da4 Lg5 2.Sxd5 Lxd5 3.f1=L Le3#
b) 1.Ta4 Lg6 2.Sxd4 Lxd4+3.Kh1 Le4#

Aleksandr Semenenko &
Mykola Kolesnik (Ukraine)
2nd Prize
(= 5+15 )

H#3 b) Kf7<->pg7

Solutions:
a) 1.Ra4xa3 Sb2-c4 2.Ra3xb3 Bc2xb3 3.Sg8-f6 Sc4-d6 #
b) 1.Rc1xc2 Sb3-d4 2.Rc2xb2 Ba3xb2 3.Sf8-h7 Sd4-e6 #

Menachem Witztum &
Emanuel Navon (Israel)
3rd Prize
(= 9+11 )

H#3 b) Kb4 goes to b5

Solutions:
a) 1.Lb5 Se1 (Sf4?) 2.Tc1 Sf3 3.Tc4 Sd3#
b) 1.Tb4 Sf3 (Se2?) 2.Ld5 Se3 3.Lc4 Sd4#

Aleksandr Semenenko &
Valery Semenenko (Ukraine)
1st Honorable Mention
(= 5+8 )

H#4 2.1…

Solutions:
1.Kg6-f5 Bb6xc5 2.Kf5-e4 Bc5-b4 3.Ke4-d4 Bb4-a5 4.Kd4-c5 Ba5-b6 #
1.Kg6-f7 Bb5xc6 2.Kf7-e7 Bc6-b7 3.Ke7-d7 Bb7-a6 4.Kd7-c6 Ba6-b5 #

Emanuel Navon (Israel)
2nd Honorable Mention
(= 2+9 )

H#4 2.1…

Solutions:
1. Kf4-e4 (1) Kd2-c2 (1) 2.Ke4-d5(1.4) + Kc2-b3(1.4) 3.Kd5-c6(1.4) Kb3-b4(1) 4.Kc6-b7(1.4) Kb4-4) 5.Kb7-a7(1) Kc5-c6(1) #
1.Kf4-f5(1) Kd2-d3(1) 2.Kf5-g6(1.4) Kd3-e4(1.4) 3.Kg6-f7(1.4) + Ke4-e5(1) 4.Kf7-g8(1.4) Ke5-f6(1.4 5.Kg8-h8(1) Kf6-f7(1) #

Viktoras Paliulionis (Lithuania)
3rd Honorable Mention
(= 3+3 )

H#4,5 2.1…

Solutions:
1. ... Sc2 2. Kf4 Se1 3. Ke3 Kc1 4. Qf4 Kd1 5. Be4 Bc5#
1. ... Sb3 2. Ba2 Sd2 3. Kd4 Ba5 4. Qe5 Kc2 5. Bd5 Bb6#

Viktoras Paliulionis (Lithuania)
4th Honorable Mention
(= 3+3 )

H#4 2.1….

Solutions:
1. Sa8 Bc7+ 2. Kd5 Bd6 3. Kc6 Ke6 4. Sb6 Sa7#
1. Sa5 Kf8 2. Ke6 Be7 3. Kd7 Kf7 4. Sc6 Sb6#

Torsten Linβ (Germany)
5th Honorable Mention
(= 2+4 )

H#6 2.1…

Solutions:
1.Kc5 Sd4 2.Kb4 Kd2 3.Ka3 Kc3 4.Ka2 Kb4 5.Ka1 Ka3 6.Tb1 Sc2#
1.Tf8 Sd8 2.Ke5 Ke3 3.Kf6 Kf4 4.Kg7 Kg5 5.Kh8 Kh6 6.Tg8 Sf7#
 
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