pickaninny theme

Watson, Charles Gilbert Marriott
Melbourne Leader 1918
1st prize
FIDE Album 1914-44/I

mate in 2 moves

white to play

Żuk, Henryk
Springaren 1956
3rd honourable mention
FIDE Album 1956-58

mat w 2 pos.

Leopold Szwedowski Memorial Tourney 2021

The Polish Chess Federation announces a memorial tourney dedicated to the great Polish composer Leopold SZWEDOWSKI in the following sections:

  • twomovers [#2] – judge Jarosław BRZOZOWICZ
  • threemovers [#3] – judge Jan RUSINEK
  • selfmates in 2 – 3 moves [s#2-3] – judge Eugeniusz IWANOW

Prizes, honourable mentions and commendations will be awarded.
Please send problems to the tournament director Piotr MURDZIA:

Closing date: 15.07.2021.
All received problems will be presented to the judges in anonymous form.
The award will be published on November 2, 2021 on the websites:
https://pzszach.pl/strona-glowna/komisje-pzszach/komisja-kompozycji/
and
https://problemista.eu/

Please reprint!

Leopold Szwedowski Memorial Tourney 2021 – announcement (PDF)

variation

Kwiatkowski, Marek
Phénix 1991
1st prize
FIDE Album 1989-91

mate in 3 moves

block problem

Strzała, Kazimierz
Szachy 1984
3rd prize
FIDE Album 1983-85

mate in 2 moves

illegal position

Gvozdjak, Peter
Hlas ludu 1996
Special prize

mate in 2 moves

self-block

Adabashev, Mark Ivanovich
Western Morning News 1935

mate in 2 moves

try

Banaszek, Marcin
Tidskrift for Schack 1989
4th commendation

mate in 2 moves

key

Finlayson, William
Chess Chips 1878

mate in 2 moves