Наши конкурсы - 2020 | Our Tourneys - 2020

Editorial board of international web project "SuperProblem" http://superproblem.ru announces an informal composing tourney for current 2020 year in the following sections:
A - twomovers Director: Evgeny Permyakov - permyakov63@mail.ru
B - threemovers Director: Aleksandr Sygurov - sygurov@bk.ru
C - moremovers Director: Aleksandr Sygurov - sygurov@bk.ru
E - helpmates Director: Vitaly Medintsev - vitalymedintsev@gmail.com
F - selfmates Director: Anatoly Stepochkin - anatoly.alfa@gmail.com
G - fairies Director: Alexander Bulavka - tischka@tut.by
Judges for "SuperProblem 2020" IT:
#2 - Pavel Murashev
#3 - Grigory Atayants
#N - Sergey Bilyk
H#2 - Viktor Zaytsev, H#2.5 & 3 - Kenan Velikhanov, H#3.5-N - Valery Gorbunov
S# - Mikhail Khramtsevich
F# - Borislav Gadjanski
In all the sections (in all three subsections in helpmates), there is the following limitation: not more than 3 originals per one author (including joint works) may be published. Versions are unlimited.
Themes are free for all the sections.
Send entries to the directors (via e-mail) not later than 20th December 2020.
Awards will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru

Tourney name: "Pawns that don’t want to promote"
Stipulation: h#2-n
Theme: required a helpmate-problem that has only Kings and Pawns of both sides in diagram position, herewith in the solution no Pawn promotes.

Conditions:
- twins are allowed if its are fully thematic;
- zero-positions are not allowed;
- fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed;
- phases with repeated mates (i. e. with the same position of both the same White mating Pawn and Black King) are not allowed.
- attacked King (under a check) in the diagram position is not allowed;
- set play is not considered.

Scoring:
- the problem with h#n stipulation and with m phases (twins, solutions), that satisfies all above specified conditions, will be evaluated in n*m points;
- for each repeated White or Black move in different phases – penalty of 1 point. Wherein:
     - moves of the same piece from different initial squares to the same final square are considered as different moves;
     - moves of the same piece from the same initial square to the same final square with capture and without capture are considered as repeated moves.

Joint problems are allowed. Each participant may submit no more than three entries (including joint works). The winning problem will be the one with the highest score among all entries. In the case of equality of points number, an advantage will get those problems which have less number of units. The second criterion (if the first criterion was useless to differentiate the competing problem) is a less number of White units. The third criterion is a time of sending.
As extra, there will be mentioned the problems anyhow related to New Year and the problems with clearly interconnected, homogeneous solutions or with groups of solutions (HOTF).

Technically, the points will be calculated according to the following formula S = n*m – k, where
S being the number of points scored by the problem;
n being the number of moves in stipulation of the problem (integer or fractional number greater than 1);
m being the number of phases;
k being the number of repeated moves.
Closing date: December 31, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru in January, 2021.
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Tourney name: "If you can’t win, copy them"
Stipulation: #2
Theme: In thematic try, white move is refutated by a black move Х. In solution, the key move is “the same move” Х in short notation, i. e. a piece of the same kind (but opposite color, of course) comes on the same square.
There also must be at least one changed mate between thematic try and solution.
Twins are allowed only if fully thematic.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Ilija Serafimović.
Closing date: December 20, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
Please send earlier published thematic problems (except examples in this announcement) to the TT Director.
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Tourney name: "Makihovi a la Rukhlis"
Stipulation: #2
Theme: In set play or in try, at once several mates follow in answer to some Black move (1...x 2.A# / 2.B# / ...). In the same or (in total) in several different another phases, each of these mates follows exactly (without dual) in answer to another defense or different defenses (1...a 2.A#, 1...b 2.B#, ...).
Any kinds of twins are allowed. Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Vasil Markovcij.
Closing date: November 20, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Dual avoidance effect"
Stipulation: h#2
Theme: in each solution Black on his 1st move (B1) appears to have a choice of moves to achieve the required effect but in each such case there is a single reason why every move but one fails. The thematic reason may be introduced at any move, but the thematic choice of moves must occur at B1.
Non-thematic solutions are not allowed. Twins are not allowed.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Ricardo de Mattos Vieira.
Closing date: November 15, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Masked valve"
Stipulation: #3
Theme: In the initial position there are at least two thematic black lines, each masked by a black piece. In the solution that piece opens the corresponding line (departure effect) to defend against threat and simultaneously doubles the closure of another line (arrival effect) to be exploited by White in a variation. Each line must experience both effects, so the number of thematic variations equals that of thematic lines.
Any kinds of twins are allowed if they are fully thematic. Zero-positions, fairy pieces/conditions are not allowed.
Possible ways of theme realization:
    Reciprocal (two black lines)
1) valve – example 1, one rear piece;
2) bi-valve – e. g. scheme of example 1 with Rook and Bishop covering the respective lines instead of Queen;
    Cyclic (three black lines)
3) bi-valve – example 2, three rear pieces (effects are cyclically shifted over lines);
4) valve – one rear piece (Queen);
5) valve bi-valve combination – two rear pieces.
Combinative cyclic type could be suitable for eventual expansion to four black lines kept by two or three rear pieces: a challenge for ambitious competitors.
Judge: Ivo Tominic.
Closing date: September 30, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Monochrome sacrifices"
Stipulation: hs#3-7
Theme: in the same solution of helpselfmate the same side actively sacrifices at least three pieces (not Pawns) and an opposite side accepts these sacrifices (immediately or later). Sacrificial move can be with capture of Pawn (but not officer).
A sacrifice like а8Q X:a8 is regarded as a sacrifice of Pawn and so it’s non-thematic.
Non-thematic solutions are not allowed.
Any kinds of twins are allowed if its are fully thematic.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Depending on quantity and quality of sent problems, the judge can divided an award into two subsections (White sacrifices and Black sacrifices) or, vice versa, can complete the common award.
Judge: Aleksey Oganesjan.
Closing date: August 31, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Greek pickabish-Novotny"
Stipulation: #2
Theme: In one phase of #2 White perform the first move by the piece А to the square X of intersection of Black Bishop and Pawn’s lines of action (pickabish interference) with two threats “a la Novotny”. In another phase there is a variation in which White perform a mate by a move of the same piece А or of another piece on the square X.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Arbirator: Igor Agapov.
Closing date: July 20, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the arbitrator in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Notes:
1) compare to a theme of ТТ-162 "Greek Novotny" that carried out by the same arbitrator in 2016. In an Afterword for the award of that TT, a history of emergence of naming “Greek Novotny” was given;
2) the term “pickabish-Novotny” (for designation of such kind of interference) was proposed by Aleksandr Sygurov in his recent article “Pickabish” in Russian (page 25, magazine “ШАХМАТНАЯ КОМПОЗИЦИЯ”, No 150, 2019).

Tourney name: "Monochrome tempo play"
Stipulation: h#3.5-N
Theme: different pieces (not Pawns) of the same color execute in total at least two tempo-moves (or tempo maneuvers).
Multiple solutions, twins and zero-positions are allowed. Non-thematic phases are not allowed.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judges: Fadil Abdurahmanović and Marko Klasinc.
Closing date: June 11, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judges in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Selfmate Rukhlis"
Stipulation: s#2-3
Theme: constant White move in answer to changing Black defenses in several phases (Rukhlis change of play, mate transfers) in at least three-phases-problem.
Any kinds of twins are allowed. Zero-positions are allowed.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Jozef Havran.
Closing date: May 2, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Pata morgana"
Stipulation: =N, ser-=N, h=N.5, hs=N.5, ser-hs=N
Theme: in a diagram position of =N, ser-=N, h=N.5 (hs=N.5, ser-hs=N) problem, Black (White) is stalemated. But White (Black) begins a play and, due to absence of waiting moves, he is forced to destroy this stalemate.
In solution, a structure of final stalemate can be the same or different compare to the one in the diagram position.
Any kinds of twins are allowed if its are thematic.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Depending on quantity and quality of sent problems, the judge can divided an award into several subsections or, vice versa, can combine several sections into the one.
Judge: Aleksey Oganesjan.
Closing date: May 7, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
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Tourney name: "Full-length reflex defense"
Stipulation: r#n (n>=3)
Theme: required to compose Reflexmate in 3-n moves with:
- full-length threat, i. e. with the threat that ends with a mate to White King on n-th Black move exactly;
- at least one “full-length reflex defense”, i. e. with at least one variation that defenses from the threat and has a White try that starts on 2nd move and ends with a mate to Black King on nth White move exactly. At that, in this try 2nd, 3rd, ... and (n-1)-th White moves must coincide with the same ones in the full-length threat.
Any kinds of twins are not allowed. Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judge: Miodrag Mladenović.
Closing date: March 19, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judge in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru

Tourney name: "Black and White: Come-and-go-and-guard"
Stipulation: h#2
Theme: required to compose h#2 with at least two phases that have a following content.
First phase:
- Black piece А, which initially stands on square Х (adjacent to Black King), executes 1st move;
- another Black piece goes on the released square Х on 2nd move.
Second phase:
- Black piece А, which initially stands on square Х (adjacent to Black King), executes 1st or 2nd move;
- White guards the square Х on 1st move.
In addition, on any move White (in one phase) and Black (in another phase) perform the same tactic idea (pinning/unpinning, opening/interference and etc)
A form of twins are allowed. Duplexes and zero-positions are not allowed.
Non-thematic phases are not allowed.
Fairy pieces and conditions are not allowed.
Judges: Menachem Witztum and Emanuel Navon.
Closing date: February 27, 2020
Entries to Aleksey Oganesjan via e-mail: alexeioganesyan@gmail.com
All received problems will be presented to the judges in anonymous form.
Award will be published on the website http://superproblem.ru
Download the announcement (pdf, 245 KB)