Variantim - issue 93/2024 (4379 ABC condition is missing, 4381 has only 2 solutions) (added 10.10.2024)

New book: Nikola Stolev: Selected compositions - (PDF, 17 MB). (added 12.9.2024)

Sad message - Petko Petkov passed away (*27.2.1942 – †11.8.2024). ANDA Fairy Planet No.7 will not be published. Composers who sent their originals to it may send those originals elsewhere. Also The Dawson Triathlon Memorial Tourney was cancelled. (updated 16.8.2024)

Sad news: John Beasley has died at the age 84 (*15.2.1940 – †3.3.2024).

Finales y Temas - issue 131 (added 7.12.2023)

Sad news: Bedrich Formanek has died at the age 90 (*6.6.1933 – †19.11.2023).

Sad and shocking news: German composer and publisher bernd ellinghoven has died at the age 70 (*24.8.1953 – †13.11.2023).

31th meeting of the Saxon problemists (April 2023) - bulletin (added 27.7.2023)

Anda Fairy Planet - issue 5/2023 (added 4.6.2023)

The Macedonian Problemist - issue 68/2022 (added 12.1.2023)

RIFACE 2023 - French problem meeting, themes: helpmates, fairies, retro (updated), C 28.5.2023 15:00 (French time).

Variantim - issue 89/2023 (added 21.5.2023) (My problem 4126 was published again (probably by mistake ?), already: 4026 Variantim 88/2022. 4124 is published with (5+9) and only 8 black pieces is on the diagram, probably black rookhopper b3 is missing. Also 4105 is published again, already: 3952 Variantim 87/2022).

Sad news: Italian composer Marco Bonavoglia has died at the age 69 (*14.5.1953 – †5.12.2022).

Sad news: Unto Heinonen - passed away (*25.12.1946 – †17.9.2022). I have always greatly admired the works of this composer.

Sad news: Slovak composer Karol Mlynka passed away (*11.8.1944 – †7.9.2022)

Sad news: Zdravko Maslar - passed away (*26.10.1932 – †24.4.2022)

WFCC questionnaire final result – Sanctions in reaction to hostilities in Ukraine - added 31.3.2022

FIDE - Russia and Belarus teams suspended from FIDE competitions (added 16.3.2022)