june 4 2013
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Hello everyone,
For this last of the season, and as usual, our friend Michel honoured us with his presence. An enormous amount of material, both in quantity and quality, was proposed by the Master.
The course almost did not take place, as described by the menu, and by the Master at the right part of this report
To begin with, a warm-up with the following position, originally intended for unfamiliar guests, but unfortunately none came.
1 - h#2
Michal DRAGOUNJubilé V. Nebotov-60, 19951° Prix
a) Circe
b) Mirror Circe
c) exchange Circe (PWC)
d) symetrical-Circee) column Circe
a) : the captured piece is reborn on its original square if it is free, otherwise it disappears from the chessboard.
b) : the rebirth is on the square of the same piece of opposite colour
c) : as the name of the rule indicates, the captured piece is reborn on the starting square of the capturing piece's move
d) : the renaissance square is the symmetrical square in relation to the central point of the chessboard
e) : the rebirth is done on the original row and the gripping column
The mats are models.
An educational problem quite easy to solve, even for a neophyte.
The traditional attempt to sabotage the lessons of St-Lazare by the hypercalamitous Parisian transporters has now seized a new twist. Only 4 minutes waiting for the RER B train at the Cité Universitaire station. Piece of cake in appearance. A warning sign all the same: several hundreds of pilgrims clustered on the platform.
All these beautiful people crowd into the train, hug each other like herrings in a caque, then wait. And then what? Nothing happens. Total immobility, which is hardly "Zen" in this case. Ten minutes go by, the damn train doesn't move. An illiterate man vomits borborygmas at the microphone, of which only the word "traffic" is understandable. This bunch of morons use, as we know, this word meaning "illicit trade" instead of the correct term "circulation". After another 5 minutes, I decide that the joke has gone on long enough. I get out and head for the tram, after 20 minutes of being lost.
After hesitation, I gave up the connection to the RER C, fearing a new confusion. So I return to my first... hates, the metro line n° 13. After the most rotten RER line, the most rotten metro line. The rest is a gigantic jostling among a sub-humanity that doesn't need to be detailed. In this magma are various images, ranging from the heroic gesture of Dominique Venner to the comic strip of the 70s, with Berck's "plunge into the rabble".
But rot does not disarm. On the way back (11:45 pm), I try to take the same line 13 again, hoping that the late hour will keep the said rabble away. In quantity perhaps, in quality (antiphrase), no. Two "nique-ta-mère" are waiting near the turnstile for a poor taxpayer jerk like me to pass by (paying) so that they can infiltrate (without paying). I refuse this game, advises an idiot who is hiding in his glass cage, wakes him up, asks him if he finds this situation normal, tells him that I risk being assaulted if I pass without covering the two parasites. He tells me that then he will (perhaps) consider intervening. I answer that with his kind of puppets, you feel really safe.
I decide to capture the bull by the horns, I run into the turnstile blocking the passage behind me. The most pressing mother-fucker shouts and insults me, I answer him "asshole", "underlarva", "human waste" shouting as loud as possible, hoping (naively) for reinforcements. Luckily, the oar just arrives and I rush in before the mother-fuckers have managed to get through. I hardly dare to imagine what would have happened if I had had to wait 5 minutes on the quay.
In the meantime, the fiscal gestapo is blocking my bank accounts and the property manager has just decided, with the help of the "majority" of the co-owners whose votes he bought, an extra 10,000 euros of useless expenses per person. The conclusion is obvious: long live France.
Let the master clerk cover the fairy tale (with the exception of the amusing help-stalemate attached) and present some problems for the summer.
A helpmate #3 with echo-cameleon.
A #2 with try, to be solved in less than 10 minutes. Two #3 with nice mats, the second with sacrifices. The third #3 is a little riddle: how the hell can you break the stalemate without giving too much freedom?
A spectacular but easy #4. Another one more refined, less easy than it seems. Finally two rather simple multi-movers, by the same author.
Have a good holiday and come back in good condition in September. God bless you.
2 - h#4 with Lion
Fernand CALVETEurope Echecs 1964
🨴h1: Lion
Very aesthetic
it becomes more complicated with the third problem which is one of the first production with Chinese pieces
3 - #2
Zdenek MACH
The Chess Problem 1946
2° Prix
🨵g8, g6, 🨻g7, g3: Pao🨶e4, 🨼d2, f1: Vao🨍d6, e6: Mao
Vao : Chinese bishop moving normally but needing a sautoir to capture
Pao : Chinese rook with the same properties as above
Really a very nice problem
The author of the next one has a very special name, but that doesn't stop him from composing!
4 - #2 Madrasi with twin Isardam
Ruud R.A. BEUGELSDIJKafter Gerard SMITSThe Problemist 2009
3° Honor Mention
🨟f3, h2: Grasshopper🨢h4, 🨨a3: Nightrider a) Madrasib) Isardam
b) : it is illegal for two opposing pieces of the same kind to observe each other
: extended Knight
: needs a hurdle to move and lands right behind
A very nice cycle of variations
The next one is by an Italian
5 - hs#3,5 with Pao, Vao and Lions
Mario PARRINELLOUralsky Problemist, 20071st Prize
🨺b4, b3: Lion
🨵e5, h4: Pao
🨶g8: Vao b) b5-->c5
un festival de switchbacks
6 - PG 16 chameleon chess ending with 16 . 0-0
: transformation at each movement according to the cycle N - B - R - Q - N (the change in the nature of the piece is of course made at the end of the movement)
7 - h#2 with Paos and Vaos
Thomas MAEDER & Hans Peter REHMdédicated to J. RusinekThe Problemist, 20094th Prize
AntiCirce🨵c2, 🨻d8: Pao🨶b6: Vao2 sol.
Captures on rebirth square allowed
There is Rehm in there, so it is the great class, even with a 4th prize
A composition by Jean-Marc Loustau which is a very good example of black correction.
8 - #2 with chinese Pieces
Jean-Marc LOUSTAU
The Problemist Supplement 2012
🨵d1, 🨻b5: Pao🨼b7: Vao悔c7: Nao
: Extended rider needing a sautoir to capture
Very pretty
9 - #2 Parrain Circe then twin contraparrain Circe with Zebra and Camel
James QUAH
The Problemist 2012
a) Circe Parrainb) ContraParrain 🨍b6, 🨓c7: Zebra🨷e7: Camel
b) : the same but the captured piece's blow is anti-equipollent (opposite direction)
Zebra : bouncer (3,2)
Camel : bouncer (3,1)
Some rest with the next one
10 - h=8
Ron FENTON
}1.Sg8*e7 e2-e4 2.Se7-d5 e4*d5 3.Sb8-c6 d5*c6 4.Bc8-b7 c6*b7 5.Bf8-e7 b7*a8=Q 6.0-0 Qa8*d8 7.Kg8-h8 Qd8*e7 8.Rf8-f7 Qe7*f7 {pat !!}
11 - PG 4,5 Sentinels Andernach
R. GANAPATHI
tcfdrfc1/ppppppp1/8/8/6P1/8/PPPPPP1P/TCFDRFCT
Blancs : Ré1 Dd1 Ta1h1 Fç1f1 Cb1g1 Pg4a2b2ç2d2é2f2h2
Noirs : Ré8 Dd8 Ta8 Fç8f8 Cb8g8 Pa7b7ç7d7é7f7g7
Proof Game 4,5 (16+14)
: a moving piece defecates a pawn, as long as there is still some left to defecate
: capturing piece changes its colour after the move
Few material for the next one but a huge headache
12 - h#2,5 with neutral pieces Exchange Circé Take&Make 2 solution with twin with each 2 solutions
Vlaicu CRISAN& Eric HUBERQuartz, 2010
b)Tf6-->e7
: the captured piece is reborn on the starting square of the capturing piece's move.
: a capture is followed by a movement of the captured piece with the march of the captured piece
huge !
And now, the supergards rule
13 - h#2 supergard 2 solutions
Petko A. PETKOVJulia's Fairies 2012
Very interesting as a genre, and moreover, it is Petkov
14 - #2 Supergard
C.G.S. NARAYANANJulia's Fairies 2012
Supergard
The key is a bit poor, but the variations on the other hand ...
A great problem to follow
15 - serial s#15 Madrasi Anticirce
Unto HEINONENThe Problemist, 20101st Prize
} 1.g7-g8=S 2.Ka5-b5 3.a7-a8=S 4.Sa8-c7 5.c5-c6 6.Sc7-a6 7.c6-c7 8.c7-c8=S 9.Sc8-e7 10.e5-e6 11.Se7-d5 12.e6-e7 13.e7-e8=S 14.Sg8-e7 15.Se7-c6+ Rh1-g1#
We continue the headache with the neutral pieces in the following problem.
16 - h#3 parrain Circe with neutral pieces 3 solutions
Ján GOLHA1° Coupe du monde FIDE 20103° Prix
Parrain Circe 3 sol.
To start the restaurant part, what could be better than fuddled Men !
17 - h#2 Fuddled men
Paul BISSICKSThe Problemist supplément, 2010
Fuddled Menb)Bb7->g2
18 - h#2 fuddled men with bérolina pawns
Paul BISSICKSThe Problemist supplémént, 2010
Fuddled Men🨣h5, 🨩g7: Bérolina Pawns 2 sol.
: diagonal move and vertical capture
Now an "educational" problem on shrinking Men
19 - #2 Shrinking Men with twin
Shrinking Men
Shrinking Menb)a<==>h
: a piece can only make one move of a length inferior or equal to its previous move
The Black King not being in check, the Queen's last move could only be inferior to 3
Kings having changed colour, they can only make one horizontal or vertical move, but not diagonal
Very instructive and simple, but destabilizing !
Of course, the symmetrical position does not have the same solution at all!
A serial problem for relaxation
20 - serial h=5 Isardam Anticirce
Laszlo ANYOSThe Problemist, 2009
AnticirceIsardam
Pleasant
a very nice switchback for the next dessert
21 - s#10 mandatory Black checks
Gyorgy BAKCSIZoltan LABORCZIThe Problemist, 2009
BlackUltraSchachZwang
Mandatory Black checks : Black is forced to check if he has this possibility, otherwise he does not play and skips his turn
And finally, for the digestive, an Anticirce.
22 - h#2 Anticirce with Grasshopper and twin
John M. RICEThe Problemist, 2007
AntiCirceb) d5-->f5🨟e3, f6: Grasshoppers
End of the report. Good brainstorm to all and good rest for the holidays. Yours sincerely
Le greffier
fairy duvet
Excellent report.
The commentary on problem 4 makes me irresistibly think of this line from a 1921 film: "My name is Wenceslas Voboroïtchik -- It's not my fault!".
Problem 11 : there are two solutions, but starting with the 2nd blank move (the first full move being identical). We will rather say: "two variants".
Rest well, see you in September, God willing.
A word from Jean-Marc
I'm a bit lost... Wouldn't the masterly rectifications be hairy too? Indeed, our good master evokes "Wenceslas Voboroichik", whereas it must probably be "Wenceslas Vorobeïtchik"? But on the other hand, this character was only born in 1930 and therefore could not appear in a 1921 film, even in a necessarily mute line... This makes me myself mute with anguishing perplexity; perhaps it would be possible to reassure me on this point? Yours sincerely.
La réponse du Maître
Indeed, it is a calami slip. A number has gone wrong, no doubt as a result of the tribulations narrated above. The exact year is 1941, we will have recognized "The last of the six" with (obviously) Fresnay and André Luguet. Infinitely happy to see that this account has readers. At least that's what a literary man would say. With a mathematical background, I would rather say, like Rémy... that this report has at least one reader. Thank you J-M.
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