Chess can be funny 5

Memories

Pawn's dream

Occupied rook

Rough unseen figure

Politika Newspaper weekly puzzle 7

Problems without a pawn look more dynamically on the board, and a name "aristocratic" encourages from German word "bauer" which means pawn and a villager. So, royal position without "villager" right there, on the board.

Viktor Zheglov

Mate in 3

Chess can be funny 4

Behind the scenes

Black prepares a counter attack

Some actors in the game's destiny is known in advance

The lonely pawn

Politika Newspaper weekly puzzle 6

Here's one mate in 3 from Leskovac, Serbia. Enjoy solving this hard miniature!

Aca Stankovic 

Leskovac, original

#3

Politika Newspaper weekly puzzle 5

This is one three-mover by Zoran Grkovic, our composer from Uzice, Serbia. Hope you will enjoy solving it!

Zoran Grkovic

Uzice, original

Mate in 3

The 1st Youth Chess Composing Challenge

The first competition in the frames of 59th WCCC (announced January 31st) will be devoted to youngest chess composers (born 1998 and after). The YCCC consists of three thematic tourneys (#2, h#2 and endgames), with 5 months time for composing. The themes were suggested by distinguished composers Ivo Tominić, Fadil Abdurahmanović and Ofer Comay, who will take the roles of judges. Aside from the competitive and creative results, the event will produce the Gallery of participants, with their photos, selected problems and biographic data.

See all the details and the announcement on: http://wccc2016.matplus.net/yccc.php

One of the aims of the Belgrade World Congress of Chess Composition 2016 is to engage the youngest generation of chess composers. The concept of the 1st YCCC is to offer young minds very concrete thematic conditions of a constructional kind, to bridge the lack of deeper theoretical knowledge.

The three judges, well-known experts, have gladly prepared demanding tasks, in the rarely explored thematic fields. This means each successful presentation of the themes may hope for both originality, and a certain level of quality!

Finally, we’ll be proud to present the Gallery of participants, including their recent photos and selected compositions. We hope that connecting young composers all authors.over the world will help them feel that they have their own generation in a field dominated by much older authors.

See the: announcement

See the: http://www.matplus.net/pub/YCCC2016-1.pdf

Politika Newspaper weekly puzzle 4

Here's one very nice endgame study which was on 11th European Senior Solving Championship in Iasi, Romania, which was held on 1-3 May, 2015. In this one the key thing is to find stalemate motif in black's play.

Yuri Bazlov

1. Prize "Шахмати в CCCP", 1972

White to move and win