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| (1) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 07:02] |
Searching for free chess composition magazines
By "free", this time I don't mean free as in the usual sense but without having to pay.
Which still appearing magazines about chess composition are available on internet for free?
Finales y Temas (no. 35-47 on ARVES website, http://arves.org/Eindspelstudies.htm)
Kudesnik (delivered per e-mail by Vladimir Kozhakin)
MatPlus (no. 24-29 here on matplus.net)
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| (2) Posted by Harry Fougiaxis [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 13:38] |
Schweizerische Schachzeitung
http://www.schachbund.ch/presse/ssz.php
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| (3) Posted by Steven Dowd [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 15:32] |
Best Problems (Italy), Echquier Belge did (I think they don't take originals any more) and doesn't Selivanov put UP problems in pdf on his site?
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| (4) Posted by Vladimir Tyapkin [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 20:17]; edited by Vladimir Tyapkin [08-06-21] |
Several last issues of 'Shahmatna misal' at http://chessbg.com/downloads/magazine with Petko Petkov in charge of chess problem section.
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| (5) Posted by Vladimir Tyapkin [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 20:36]; edited by Vladimir Tyapkin [08-06-21] |
You can find a bunch of magazines at Andrey Selivanov's website at http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz
Some lesser known chess problem magazines from there:
Schachmatnaya poezia(Russia), editor R.Usmanov
http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz/shahmatnaya_poeziya/
Kudesnik(Russia), editor V.Kozhakin,
http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz/kudesnik/
Chess Leopolis(Ukraine), editor E.Bogdanov
http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz/chessleopolis/
Чорно-білі стежини(Ukraine), for editors see the magazine
http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz/chbs/
Shahmat bestechiliyi(Azerbaijan), editor Ilham Aliev
http://www.selivanov.ru/kompoz/azb/
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| (6) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 21:33] |
For now I downloaded these. I won't have internet next week (I think, at least on Monday) so it's always good to have something to read. :-)
Also, I expect a few magazines to arrive soon here. It's nice!
Many thanks to you all!
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| (7) Posted by Harry Fougiaxis [Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 21:42] |
Needless to mention, I guess, that Václav Kotěšovec's archive includes lots of magazines, either public or private
http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/
http://problem64.beda.cz/silo/archiv.htm
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| (8) Posted by Vladimir Tyapkin [Sunday, Jun 22, 2008 00:44] |
Polish 'Problemista' is available at http://www.problemista.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=105
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| (9) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Monday, Jun 23, 2008 12:55] |
Oh, and it's obvious that you can get many mags for free
due to the "Belegexemplar" (eh, what's that in English)
for your originals - but abstain those who merely award you
a xerox of the relevant section :P
Hauke
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| (10) Posted by Steven Dowd [Tuesday, Jun 24, 2008 15:58] |
Author's copy - Belegex.
The very best magazine - for the problemist at least - provide you with a copy of the magazine with the original, one with the solutions section and then one with the awards - whether or not you win.
For people like me, who live on a fixed retirement income, it is very welcome. When I had a lot of cash (comparatively), I subscribed to every magazine I could. But some are close to $100 US a year now, too too much for me.
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| (11) Posted by Geoff Foster [Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 07:49] |
As Steven says, some magazines provide a copy of the issue containing the problem, the issue with the solutions, and the issue with the award, even if you don't win anything. However, some magazines don't provide anything at all, not even an acknowledgement! In one case I received no reply to any of my enquiries, and only found out that the problem had been published when I found it in a database! Would it be acceptable to name these magazines, so that composers would know which ones to avoid? Perhaps we could just name the good magazines.
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| (12) Posted by [Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 09:11] |
Why not a smallish informal 'tourney' for good periodicals? There's nothing that limits
them to compositions, is there? Of course, some entries will be discarded as unsuitable
... for reasons clearly explained by the judges.
Springaren once had an outbreak of limericks - some good, but most awful. I
sometimes thought it would have been useful to do an informal tourney for those -- just
to help build an appreciation of the art of that particular form of composition.
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| (13) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 18:50]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [08-07-02] |
QUOTE
and then one with the awards - whether or not you win
Indeed this was very surprising to me a few weeks ago when they sent the exemplar with the award to me (where I won nothing, by the way) AND the fairy supplement! I can confirm this! This is very nice of them and I just hope they don't ruin theirself financially by doing so. Would be very bad.
Sorry, don't have much time today, will be back next week. Thanks again to all of you!
EDIT: It's The Problemist Supplement, NOT Fairy Supplement! I must've made a mistake since TR Dawson used that name for the Fairy Chess Review when it started.
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