Awarded Problems
This quick composition tourney was held during the 45th World Congress of Chess Composition in Portoroz (Slovenia). The tourney asked for diagonal-orthogonal correspondence between 2 elements of the solution(s).
Judge: MÃchel Caillaud (who also commented the problems)
1 - Reto Aschwanden (Switzerland) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 1st Prize
16+12. Shortest proof game in 17,5 moves
[2B3Rr/5brp/k2qp1pb/2np4/8/p7/PPP1PP1P/RNBQKBNR]
Solution
2 - Paz Einat, Gady Costeff, Ofer Comay (Israel) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 2nd Prize
9+15. Shortest proof game in 12,5 moves
[3Rkbnr/r1pppppp/n7/pb6/8/8/P4P1q/RNBQKB2]
3 - Ivan Denkovski, Gligor Denkovski (Makedonia) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 Special HM
12+13. Shortest proof game in 20,0 moves
[rn2k1n1/ppp2p2/4P3/5b1p/6pP/3PP3/PPPPr3/KR1NQ1N1]
4 - Joost de Heer (Netherlands) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 1st HM
12+15. Shortest proof game in 21,5 moves
[1n2kb2/1pp3p1/4pnp1/3prp2/r7/P3nP1P/1PPPPPB1/2BQK2b]
5 - Igor Vereschagin (Russia) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 2nd HM
16+14. Shortest proof game in 9,5 moves
[rn2Q1nr/ppp1pp1p/6pk/1b6/P3K3/2P4R/1PP1PPPP/1NBq1BNR]
6 - Marek Kolcak (Slovakia) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 1st Com
14+15. Shortest proof game in 7,0 moves
[1nbqkBnr/1ppp1ppp/1p2p3/8/8/2P5/P1PPPPP1/RN1QKBNr]
7 - Bjorn Enemark (Danmark) Champagne Tourney, Portoroz, 2002 2nd Com
11+12. Shortest proof game in 6.0 moves
[rnb1kbn1/pppp1p1r/8/8/8/8/PPP1PP1P/RN3KNR]