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ISC 2026  22nd International Solving Contest 25-JAN-2026
Final Results and all problems of all three categories You can see by clicking ISC 2026 icon (on the left). |
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| Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 11:49 |
Technical Excellence Challenge – 4The MAT PLUS website announces a new challenge tournament
The Fourth MatPlus TEC is:
Ser-h= Triple Excelsior with any of 64 possible combinations of promotions in the least number of moves.
Closing date: 15th April 2027
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| Sunday, Aug 17, 2025 10:19 |
FINAL REPORT MP-TEC-3Ser-s#n Triple Excelsior with any of 64 possible combinations of promotions in the least number of moves.
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Technical Excellence Challenge – 3 |
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| Monday, Sep 16, 2024 22:57 |
Technical Excellence Challenge – 3The MAT PLUS website announces a new challenge tournament
The Third MatPlus TEC is:
Ser-s# Triple Excelsior with any of 64 possible combinations of promotions in the least number of moves.
Closing date: 15th June 2025
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| Sunday, Aug 4, 2024 09:24 |
Technical Excellence Challenge – 2Ser-= Triple Excelsior with any of 64 possible combinations of promotions in the least number of moves.
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| Sunday, Dec 24, 2023 21:01 |
Technical Excellence Challenge 2The site MAT PLUS continues with the challenge tournaments
The Second MatPlus TEC is:
Ser-= Triple Excelsior with any of 64 possible combinations of promotions in the least number of moves.
Closing date: 30. June 2024
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| Saturday, Feb 25, 2023 10:38 |
Milan Velimirović
(1952-2013-2023)
On February 25 ten years ago WFCC lost one of its greatest and most popular personalities, Milan Velimirović.
A Grandmaster in Composing and Solving, he was also a writer and editor whose huge project Mat Plus still lives along with his writings and compositions.
Milan was born and lived in Serbia, where he started composing, solving and editing already as a teenager.
At 22 he became the main editor of the chess problem magazine MAT. There, his expert articles and analyzes largely contributed to the sudden rise of the Serbian chess composition.
20 years later, he founded the outstanding magazine Mat Plus (in English) and started several projects under the same name, including softwares Mat Plus Librarian
and Machine Gun (for quick solving competitions). The unique Mat Plus Website (since 2006) keeps entertaining chess problemists, now under the supervision of Borislav Gadjanski.
With philanthropic approach to composition and composers, Milan was the heart of each party. He was performing duties of the judge in composing and in solving, too.
The two-mover above he composed for participants of the European Chess Solving Championship 2008.
As a chess composer Velimirović was oriented to the highly complex and demanding thematic combinations.
Such is the following cyclic change of continuations commented by another great composer Jacques Rotenberg, in English and in French.
Milan’s last book, written with the Finnish composer Kari Valtonen, was Encyclopedia of Chess Problems: Themes and Terms (Chess Informant, 2012).
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| Sunday, Jan 22, 2023 13:58 |
ISC 2023 19th International Solving Contest 29-JAN-2023
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| Tuesday, Nov 8, 2022 17:48 |
64th WCCC - 5DTAn announcement for a 5 - days composing tournament was published on the Congress website.
Original problems are submitted via the MatPlus website! |
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| Saturday, Aug 20, 2022 23:39 |
Technical Excellence ChallengeThe site MAT PLUS continues with the challenge tournaments started in the magazine Strate Gems, since, unfortunately, that respectable magazine with the 100th issue stops being published.
The First MatPlus TEC is:
Ser-h= Mixed AUW with the least number of moves
Closing date: 1st December 2022
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