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| Roland Lecomte & Jean Morice [Maroc-echecs] |
Roland Lecomte was the editor of the chess column of the newspaper "Combat". He was an International Judge and a chess journalist for AFP.
Lecomte, Roland
StrateGems, 1999
StrateGems, 1999
| h#3 | 4.1.1... | 4 + 14 |
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Пётр Л. Макаренко (12-09-1927) Russian composer (Pyotr L. Makarenko)
Pyotr Makarenko composes direct mates and selfmates.
Макаренко, Пётр Л.
Mat-Pat, 1993
3rd HM
Mat-Pat, 1993
3rd HM
| s#2 | 8 + 12 |
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Валерій Володимирович Копил (12-09-1957) Ukrainian composer and Grandmaster (Valery Volodimirovich Kopyl)
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| Valery Kopyl |
Valery Kopyl composes direct mates, selfmates and helpmates. He is also Grandmaster for solving. His website can be found here.
Valery Kopyl will be present at the World Chess Composing Congress this week, as every year.
Копил, Валерій Володимирович
BIT, 2008 (983)
3rd Prize
BIT, 2008 (983)
3rd Prize
| h#2 | 4.1... | 7 + 10 |
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Ladislav Packa (12-09-1958) Slovak composer and FIDE Master
Ladislav Packa composes direct mates. He has become International Judge in 2017.
Packa, Ladislav
Match: Czechoslovakia - Israel, 1992
1st Place
Match: Czechoslovakia - Israel, 1992
1st Place
| #2 | 13 + 10 |
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Андрей Евгеньевич Спирин (12-09-1961) Russian composer (Andrey Evgenyevich Spirin)
Andrey Spirin composes direct movers. He is interested in strategic combinations with promoted pieces.
Спирин, Андрей Евгеньевич
The Problemist, 2005
2nd Prize
The Problemist, 2005
2nd Prize
| #4 | 10 + 12 |
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Александр Михайлович Михолап (12-09-1970) Belarusian composer (Aleksandr Mikhailovich Mikholap)
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| A.Mikholap, Poltava 2007 |
Aleksandr Mikholap composes in direct mates, helpmates and selfmates.
He will be present at the World Chess Composing Congress this week, as every year.
Михолап, Александр Михайлович
Информ-прогулка (Лунінец) 2003
3rd-4th Prize
Информ-прогулка (Лунінец) 2003
3rd-4th Prize
| #5 | 11 + 9 |
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A recent success of the Belarusian team let by Aleksandr Mikholap:
Михолап, Александр Михайлович & Булавка, Александр Геннадьевич & Волчек, Виктор Фёдорович
8WCCT
1st Place
8WCCT
1st Place
| s#3 vvv | 13 + 13 |
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Bojan Vučković (12-09-1980) Serbian composer
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| Bojan Vučković |
Bojan Vučković is o.t.b. Grandmaster and also solving Grandmaster. He composes occasionally.
Vučković, Bojan
13.Sabra TT, 2010
5th HM
13.Sabra TT, 2010
5th HM
| h#2 | 3.1... | 7 + 10 |
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Éric Angelini (12-09-1951 - 27-09-2024) Belgian composer
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| Éric Angelini Source |
Éric Angelini had many passions: typography, maths, Oulipian literature but also chess problems.
His chess problems and chess-related ideas can be found on this page of his website or on his blog, for instance here for capped file or here for Modulo 7 chess.
His obituary in French can be read here.
The problem below is a good example of his wit.
Angelini, Éric
Europe Échecs, Apr 1990 (376/376/16)
Europe Échecs, Apr 1990 (376/376/16)
| Add a square, then #2 | 3 + 1 |
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Eduard Adolf Heinrich Birgfeld (12-09-1889 - 07-05-1939) German composer
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| Eduard Birgfeld Source: Die Schwalbe, 1939 page 509 |
Eduard Birgfeld was a chess composer and editor. He composed mostly selfmates.
He headed the content-rich chess column in the Chemnitzer Tageblatt (1924-1928). His book Fata Morgana (1922) is famous for its 950 problems with changed play.
From 1928 to 1939, Birgfeld was president of the die Schwalbe association. He was also the first president of the IPB (International Problem Board), an international association which was later officially replaced in Wiesbaden in 1959 by the Permanent Commission for Chess Composition (nowadays WFCC).
One of his famous Rundauf problems is presented on his Wikipedia webpage. Let's show another one.
Birgfeld, Eduard
Deutsches Wochenschach, 1920
Deutsches Wochenschach, 1920
| s#5 | 11 + 7 |
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