ANNOUNCEMENT

CHESS COMPOSITION TOURNAMENT

110 YEARS OF “CAISSANA BRASILEIRA”

Clube de Xadrez Guanabara (Guanabara Chess Club), the most traditional chess association in Rio de Janeiro, invites chess composers around the world to participate in a composition tournament for direct threemovers, commemorative of 110 years of “Caissana Brasileira”, the first book published in Brazil dedicated to chess problems (see article “Caissana Brasileira, Arthur Napoleão and Caldas Viana: first summits in Brazilian chess history”).

The problems presented for this competition should fulfil the following condition: “in a direct threemover, the white king makes the key”. Example:

Caldas Viana

Caissana Brasileira 1898 (after Chess Monthly 1882)

#3                                          (7+6)

Solution: 1.Kg8!! zz.

1...Kd3 2.Df4: i) 2...Kc3 3.Dd2#; ii)2...d4 3.Dxf3#; iii) 2...c3 3.Lb5#

1...d4 2.Db7!: i) 2...Kd3 3.Dxf3#; ii) 2...d3 3.Dg7#

1...Kd4 2.Td2+: i) 2...Kc3 3.Db2#; ii) 2...Ke4 3.Lc2#; iii) 2...Kc5 3.Df8#

Entries (three at maximum by author) must be sent until December 31^th 2008 to the Director:

Ricardo Vieira

e-mail: ricmatvieira@hotmail.com

post address: Rua Princesa Isabel 273, apto. 1001

22011-010 Copacabana – Rio de Janeiro – Brasil

The Judge will be Jacques Rotenberg (Israel).

News (including the award) about this tournament is to be published in the Clube de Xadrez Guanabara’s website: www.cxg.org.br.