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Contents
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ISSUE 3 (SEPTEMBER 2014)
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1 Originals
2014 Informal Tourney . . . . . . .
2 Chess Chat
with Adrian Storisteanu . . . . . . .
3 Articles
Arno T¨ngler:
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Series-Castling
Length Records . . . . . . . .
4 2013 Award
by Ivan Skoba . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 ChessProblems.ca TT6
6 Selected Compositions
Series Retractors . . . . . . .
72. f-Thematurnier . . . . .
Rex-Solus Challenge 2014 . .
Messigny 2012 Fairies Award
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Canadian Chess Chat . . . . . . . .
Editor:
Originals:
Articles:
Correspondence:
Cornel Pacurar
originals@chessproblems.ca
articles@chessproblems.ca
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Isolated Pawn
[Watercolour,
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Elke Rehder, http://www.elke-rehder.de. Reproduced with permission.]
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ORIGINALS
ChessProblems.ca’s annual Informal Tourney
is open for series-movers of any type and with
any fairy conditions and pieces.
Hors concours
compositions (any genre)
are also welcome!
Send to: originals@chessproblems.ca.
2014 Informal Tourney
T185
S´bastien Luce
e
Pierre Tritten
T186
S´bastien Luce
e
T187
S´bastien Luce
e
T188
Karol Mlynka
2014 Judge:
Nicolas Dupont
2014 Tourney Participants:
1. Alberto Armeni
2. Geo Foster
3. Harald Grubert
4. Georgi Hadˇi-Vaskov
z
5. Joost de Heer
6. Emil Klemaniˇ
c
7. Branko Koludrovi´
c
8. V´clav Kotˇˇovec
a
es
9. S´bastien Luce
e
10. Dan Meinking
†
11. Karol Mlynka
12. Ladislav Packa
13. Cornel Pacurar
14. Paul R˘ican
a
15. Adrian Storisteanu
ˇ uˇ
16. Jaroslav St´n
17. Pierre Tritten
18. Arno T¨ngler
u
19. Kjell Widlert
(FRA)
ser-= 50
C+ (1+14) ser-h# 48
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(ITA)
(AUS)
(DEU)
(MKD)
(NLD)
(SVK)
(HRV)
(CZE)
(FRA)
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(SVK)
(SVK)
(CAN)
(ROU)
(CAN)
(SVK)
(FRA)
(DEU)
(SWE)
C+ (1+16) ser-h# 10
C+ (1+2)
= Locust
= Royal Pawn
= 2,5-Leaper
T192
Paul R˘ican
a
after Unto Hainonen
v
v
T189
Kjell Widlert
sh# 18
Alphabetic Chess
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T190
S´bastien Luce
e
C+ (5+9) ser-h# 5
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T191
V´clav Kotˇˇovec
a
es
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C+ (2+7) phser-dia 82
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ORIGINALS
T192:
Q Ceriani-Frolkin, Bc1 and Ra1
circuits, impostor Sg1.
(Author)
T192a
Unto Hainonen
Springaren 1996
T193
Georgi Hadˇi-Vaskov
z
ser-dia 53
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1.f4 2.f5 3.f6 4.f×g7 5.g×h8=R 6.R×h7
7.Rh4 8.Rb4 9.h4 10.h5 11.h6 12.h7
13.h×g8=B 14.Bh7 15.Be4 16.Bc6 17.e4
18.Ke2 19.Kd3 20.Kc4 21.Kb5 22.Bc4 23.Se2
24.Qg1 25.Q×a7 26.Q×a8 27.Qa3 28.Qc3
29.a4 30.a5 31.a6 32.a7 33.a8=S 34.Sb6
35.S×c8 36.S×e7 37.Sf5 38.Sd4 39.Sb3
40.d4 41.Bg5 42.B×d8 43.B×c7 44.Kb6
45.Ka7 46.Ka8 47.Ra7 48.Sa3 49.Ra1 50.Ra2
51.Sa1 52.b3 53.Qb2 dia
T193:
The 2014 Rex-Solus Challenge theme.
T194:
Series Retractor. Black retracts three
moves then white stalemates in one.
T191 (V´clav Kotˇˇovec):
a
es
1.RHh6 2.RHb6 3.Sh2 4.RHh1 7.Sd1 8.RHc1 12.Sf1 13.RHg1 15.Sg4
16.RHg5 22.Sg2 23.RHg1 25.Sg6 26.RHg7 31.Sb4 33.RHg3 34.BHh2
35.RHg8 37.Sb8 38.RHa8 39.Sa6 40.RHa5 42.Sa2 43.RHa1 44.Sc1
45.RHd1 47.Sg1 48.RHh1 50.Sc1 51.RHb1 58.Sg2 60.RHa1 65.Sa7
ser-h= 5*
C+ (4+1) -3b & =1
(1+2)
66.RHa8 67.Sc8 68.RHd8 71.Sf8 72.RHg8 73.Sg6 74.RHg5 80.Sd1
82.RHe5 83.BHd6 84.RHh5 87.Sh2 88.RHh1 91.Sd1 92.RHc1 95.Sg1
2 Solutions
96.RHh1 100.Sg7 101.RHg8 102.Sh5 103.RHh6 107.Sb5 108.BHa4
T185 (S´bastien Luce & Pierre Tritten):
e
109.RHc6 111.BHg4 112.RHg3 113.BHh2 114.RHc3 115.RHb3
1.Kh7 2.K×h6(Kh7) 3.Kh6 4.K×h5(Kh7) 6.Kh5 7.K×h4(Kh7) 9.Kh5 116.RHh3 117.RHa3 118.RHb6 119.Sa7 120.RHa8 122.Sc3 123.RHb3
10.K×g4(Ka8) 11.Ka7 12.K×a6(Ka7) 13.Ka6 14.K×a5(Ka7) 16.Ka5 124.RHb2 125.Sa2 126.RHa1 128.Sd3 129.RHe3 130.Sb4 131.RHb5
17.K×a4(Ka7) 20.Ka4 21.K×b3(Ka8) 29.Kd4 30.K×d5(Kg8) 32.Ke7 133.Se1 134.RHf1 135.Sf3 136.RHf4 137.BHe5 138.RHf5 141.BHd3
33.K×d6(Kb8) 39.Kh2 40.K×h1(Kc8) 44.Kg4 45.K×h3(Kh7) 50.Kc2 c×d3 #
=
T192 (Paul R˘ican):
a
T186 (S´bastien Luce):
e
1.f4 2.f5 3.f6 4.f×g7 5.g×h8=R 6.R×h7 7.Rh4 8.Rb4 9.h4 10.h5 11.h6
1.K×g7(Kf6) 4.Kh7 5.K×h6(Kh7) 8.Kh4 9.K×h3(Kh4) 13.Kf6 12.h7 13.h×g8=B 14.Bh7 15.Be4 16.Bc6 17.e4 18.Ke2 19.Kd3 20.Kc4
14.K×f5(Kf6) 15.Ke6 16.K×d5(Ke6) 19.Kd8 20.K×c8(Kd8) 23.Kc5 21.Kb5 22.Bc4 23.Se2 24.Qg1 25.Q×a7 26.Q×a8 27.Qa3 28.Qc3 29.a4
24.K×c4(Kc5) 26.Kb3 27.K×a4(Kb3) 28.Kc2 29.K×d2(Kc2) 31.Ke2 30.a5 31.a6 32.a7 33.a8=S 34.Sb6 35.S×d7 36.S×f8+ Sd7 37.Sh7
32.K×f2(Ke2) 34.Kg2 35.K×h2(Kg2) 41.Ka6 42.K×b7(Ka6) 48.Kc8 38.Sf6+ Kf8 39.Rh8+ Kg7 40.Re8 41.Sg8+ Sf6 42.Qg3+ Bg4 43.d3!
Rh8 #
44.Bh6+ Kg6 45.Bf8 46.Sf4+ Kg5 47.Se6+ f×e6 48.Qh4+ Kf4 49.g3+
Kf3 50.e5+ Se4 51.Qf6+ e×f6 52.Sd2+ Ke3 53.Bc5+ Qd4 54.Bd5
T187 (S´bastien Luce):
e
55.Sc4+ Kf3 56.Rf1+ Qf2 57.Be3 58.Bc1 59.Sd2+ Ke3 60.Sf3+ Sd2
1.K×b8(Ka8) 6.Ka3 7.K×b2(Ka3) 9.Kc5 10.K×d6(Kc5) 11.Kd6 61.Sg1 62.Bf3 63.Bd1 64.Re1+ Qe2 65.Rf1 66.R1f4 67.Rfc4 68.d4
12.K×d7(Kd6) 14.Kf7 15.K×g8(Kf7)22.Ke2 23.K×e3(Ke2) 24.Ke3 69.d5 70.d6 71.d7 72.d8=Q! 73.Qd6 74.Rd8 75.Be8 76.Qb6+ c5
25.K×e4(Ke3) 26.Kf3 27.K×g4(Kf3) 30.Kh2 31.K×h3(Kh2) 32.Kh3 77.Qd6 78.Qd4+ c×d4 79.Kc5 80.Rc3+ d3 81.Ra3 82.Ra1 dia
33.K×h4(Kh3) 34.Kh4 35.K×h5(Kh4) 36.Kh5 37.K×h6(Kh5) 38.Kh6
39.K×h7(Kh6) 40.Kh7 41.K×h8(Kh7) 45.Kd3 46.Kc2 =
T193 (Georgi Hadˇi-Vaskov):
z
1. . . e7-e8=R =, 1.Kf7×g8 2.Kg8-f7 3.Kf7-e8 4.Ke8-d7 5.Kd7-c7 e7-
T188 (Karol Mlynka):
e8=Q =
I) 1.25e8-c3 2.25c3-h5 3.25h5-c7 4.25c7-a2 5.25a2-f4 6.25f4-a6
7.25a6-f8 8.25f8-d3 9.25d3-b8 10.25b8-g6 Lc6×g6-h6 #
T194 (Cornel Pacurar):
II) 1.25e8-g3 2.25g3-b1 3.25b1-d6 4.25d6-f1 5.25f1-a3 6.25a3-f5 I) -1.Kf6×Sf5 -2.Kf7×Sf6 -3.Kf8×Bf7 & 1.Bf7-c4 =
7.25f5-a7 8.25a7-c2 9.25c2-e7 10.25e7-g2 Lc6×g2-h1 #
II) -1.Ke4×Rf5 -2.b6×Qc5 -3.a7×Qb6 & 1.Qb6-a6 =
¥
£
£
T194
Cornel Pacurar
0#
T189 (Kjell Widlert):
1.Sc6-e7 4.d4-d3 5.Rc2×e2 6.Re2-e4 8.d2-d1=R 10.Rd8-h8
11.Re5-f5!
(11.R-e6-h6? 13.Bc6??)
12.Re4-e6
(Rh4?)
13.Re6-h6
14.Bf3-c6!
(Bh5?)
16.Be8-g6 17.Rf5-f7 18.Se7-g8 Ra7×f7 #
T190 (S´bastien Luce):
e
I) 1.Rc2-h2 2.Rh2×h1[bRh1→a8]
Rb6-b8 #
II) 1.Rc2-c6 2.Rc6×b6[bRb6→h8]
Rh1×h7[wRh7→h1] #
3.0-0-0
3.0-0
4.Rd8-f8
4.Kg8-h8
5.Kc8-d8
5.Rf8-g8
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CHESS CHAT
With Adrian Storisteanu
Adrian, rst of all, we are delighted to see that you are
composing again! Why the long break?
Interest in chess has been, throughout the years, brief bursts of
enthusiasm kept apart by prolonged pauses. I get easily sidetracked
and I seem to lose interest quickly. Going back to composition is
a full-time hobby.
Problems work primarily on some kind of an abstract, intellectual
level. A chess composition never touched me to the extent that
poetry music and literature always do. A half-pin cannot compete
with a metaphor. Once I wrote Theodor
1
, “It seems I lack the
patience I had only recently. Along with a feeling of dissatisfaction
from failing to create something original (without being able to
dene what, precisely, is ’original’), it makes me wonder. Is chess,
as a mode of expression, so limited (trying, here, to compare
with other, remotely familiar, domains)? Is it just me, so weary
creatively already?” It is, each time, like this: “Then one day,
suddenly, it ends, it changes, I don’t understand, it dies, or it’s me,
I don’t understand that either.” (Samuel Beckett, quite ttingly
in
Endgame)
In such instances the question becomes: So now –
what?
Sah”! How did your chess composition journey begin?
¸
Like all Romanian kids at the time, I collected stamps, I held
both hands behind my back in the classroom, I read “Cutez˘
torii”
a
every week, listened with the family to Europa Liber˘ at night,
a
and I played chess. Good old young days (Andrei Codrescu:
“We hold the places of our youth unchanged in our minds and
stay secretly young that way.”)... Only later I became more
interested in chess, this was already in Israel. After deciphering
with my brother the algebraic notation for a game published in
a newspaper (and overcoming the misprints), I started buying
Revista de Sah
regularly. In a second-hand bookstore I stumbled
¸
upon Levensh’s excellent “The beginner’s chess book”. The
introduction explained: “De un ajutor nepretuit ne-a fost ¸i ne
¸
s
este experienta pedagogiei ¸ahiste sovietice, din al c˘rei izvor
¸
s
a
ne inspir˘m neˆ
a
ıncetat.” Emboldened, I read on, discovered en
passant, the castling and promotion rules, studied a few basic
endings, and had fun with the problems.
When I established that opening theory was not for me, I turned
my attention to problems. The only composition literature in
the beginning was the same
Revista de Sah.
Solutions labelled
¸
“duble” were so ubiquitous in the helpmates, that for a while
I was not entirely clear whether they were defects or features.
My rst compositions, naturally helpmates featuring echoes, also
appeared there. A promising composer, already my second
published problem was solidly sound.
[Credit and copyright: Adrian Storisteanu]
Adrian Storisteanu was born in 1956 in
Bucharest, Romania, and lives in Toronto,
Canada since 1981.
Adrian debuted in
“Revista
de Sah”
in 1974, while living in
¸
Haifa, Israel. He wrote a brief Circe column in
the “Canadian
Chess Chat”
in the early 1980s,
and a briefer column in “Apprenti
Sorcier
” in
the early 1990s. After a long break, he has
recently returned to composition.
Presumingly-creative types nurse, I guess, a latent often-dicult-
to-qualify need for expression. Being appreciably more inept at
everything else, my eventual comebacks to chess are, in the end,
You are part of a relatively large group of chess problem
composers born in Romania who reached their full chess-
inevitable.
composition potential elsewhere – Camil Seneca, Toma
(A good break now and then could, generally, be benecial. Stefan
Garai, Shlomo Seider, Theodor Tauber, Milu Milescu
Zweig, clearly not a fan of corner echoes, wrote in
Schachnovelle:
(Augutstein), to name a few. What can you share with us
“How impossible to imagine [. . . ] a man of intelligence who,
about your interaction and collaboration with the Romanian
without going mad, again and again, over ten, twenty, thirty,
chess-problem diaspora?
forty years, applies the whole elastic power of his thinking to the
ridiculous goal of backing a wooden king into the corner of a
wooden board!”)
I do not know about the full potential thing (I know I don’t
belong in the company you mention). My main composition ties
were indeed rst with Shlomo Seider, a mentor of sorts (each
It may seem like yesterday, but it was 40 years ago this fall
time I compose a miniature it is an act of betrayal...), then for a
that your rst chess problem was published in “Revista de
long time with Theodor Tauber, and lately with a certain Cornel
Pacurar.
1
Theodor
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CHESS CHAT
C1
Adrian Storisteanu
The British Chess
Magazine 1977
4
th
Honourable Mention
ser-s# 9
 0 0¤
3 5£
¢! 1
0
# 2
It is not a matter of geography. Mostly circumstances, of all kind.
The existence of a spiritual domain has a certain weight, a certain
’proximity’ to other like-minded individuals, who inspire debate
inuence nudge gently and generally keep the whole enterprise
going (until, of course, the looming next break hits). 1976 (more
precisely, a good part of the second half of ’75 and the rst of
’76) was my Year of Ideas – my own
annus mirabilis
(sooner,
sweller than Philip Larkin’s). It keeps popping up in reference
to many of my few compositions, even much later ones. I was
then meeting with a group of really extraordinary composers on
a weekly basis. Today’s electronic instant communications might
serve as an approximate, roughly adequate substitute. (It is
eminently eective for those who stay up late.)
A column was also eective in keeping something resembling a
contact with the composition world. That was the case earlier,
editing the originals in
Shahmat,
with the added advantage that
I no longer had to deal with badly-scribbled solutions and add up
solver points.
Frank
2
was something of a problem-magazine Franco. All my
correspondence with the authors, in both directions, went through
him (once in a while he would mail me the photocopy of a
letter addressed to me, sometimes along with a copy of his reply
volunteered on my behalf). (Would be nice to have one of
those letters addressed “Canadian Cheese Chat” or “Canadian
Chess Cat”.) I never saw a chess magazine or book sent for
review or in exchange for
CCC.
Everything was late, and chaos
reigned. Frank had a lot of enthusiasm, but not much experience
with composition. He published everything he received, without
any attempt at appraising quality or soundness. As a rule, the
solutions, when published at all, had no trace of the author’s
analysis or comment, similarly the studies he sent for judgement.
I know of at least one good problem that simply vanished,
mysteriously, on its way to the judge.
C+ (11+11)
C2
Adrian Storisteanu
Die Schwalbe 1980
1
st
Prize
ser-h# 3 C+ (5+13)
Circe
3 Solutions
3
¢
0
0 0¡
¥
12¤
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A common language and a shared culture probably help. Theodor
conceded to both a role in the foundation of his remarkable
collaboration with Seider. (There is the undeniable advantage of
freely switching language mid-sentence or throwing in a random
reference obscure to everyone else around, that too.) F˘nu¸
a s
Neagu: “Cˆnd bei vin, mi-a zis b˘trˆnul me¸ter, s˘ multume¸ti
a
a a
s
a
¸
s
sticlarilor pentru paharele ce-l lumineaz˘ ¸i-l fac s˘ vin˘ din vremea
as
a a
printilor de odinioar˘... Iar eu i-am r˘spuns: cˆnd bei vin cu un
¸
a
a
a
prieten, trei foi de ac˘r˘ se rup din sˆngele ec˘ruia ¸i ard ˆ All things considered, I am not entirely convinced he enjoyed this
aa
a
a
s
ın
bucurie nopti ˆ
¸ ıntregi...”.
job. The refrain was “money-losing proposition” (his printing
shop published a few foreign-language newspapers for immigrants,
In the “romantic era” of Canadian Fairy Chess (if there
which is what funded the chess part of the operation). He
ever was one!), you were the Canadian Chess Chat’s “Circe
managed to aggravate a lot of composers. When I was preparing
Chess” column editor. The other CCC editors were Kenneth
the circe originals for judgement, must have been early 1986, I
Braithwaite – Two-movers, Frank J. Szarka – More-movers,
apprised him, in one of our regular phone calls, of the cook found
Helpmates and Selfmates, and Frederick M. Mihalek –
in the problem by Bajtay
3
(whose address I didn’t have). Frank
Fairies. How did it all start and how did it end?
considered quietly for a few seconds then declared, “He’s going to
crap out soon”. On the basis of this epiphany he decided not to
I was new to Canada. A regular column seemed a good idea to bother writing to inform him. His phone conversations (he called
improve one’s English. Fairies was taken, so I suggested to Frank frequently – from Hamilton, the expenses must have added up)
(we have been corresponding for a while) I will do just circe. (Of were always very colourful. An intriguing character...
course, circe became a front anyway. I was able to muse about
other matters related, to widely varying extents, to composition.) It ended, sadly, with Frank’s death, though things were not going
It was a new type of undertaking for me, both the writing and the well for a while beforehand (well, they
never
were).
language itself. I became fascinated with clich´s (though it did
e
not lead to my own
L’Heure Anglaise).
I embraced them, a mild
2
Frank J. Szarka – ed.
3
J´zsef Bajtay (12-11-1902 – 26-04-1988)
rebellion against the professed standards. I also adopted quotes
o
extensively (they make up the clever bits in what I write).
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