The International Tournament of Draught Problem Composition

in memory of Garry Dalidovich

REGULATIONS

(Organized by the Department of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Minsk Regional Executive Committee and by the Draught Composition Commission under Byelorussian Draughts Federation public institution (OOBFSh)

1. Purpose and Tasks of the Tournament:

1.1. Popularization of draught problem composition in Byelorussia

1.2. Improvement of techniques of Byelorussian problemists

1.3. Development of contacts between Byelorussian draught problem composers and foreign problemists.

2. Rules of Tournament:

2.1. The tournament will be run in three categories subject to the following conditions: The category A will be regulated by the Rules of Draught Problem Composition adopted for the Eastern Europe and categories of B and C will be run under the International Rules adopted by CPI FMJD (RI - Règles Internationales FMJD CPI).

2.1.1. Category A: problems*. The theme is free. There are no restrictions regarding the minimum or maximum number of pieces.

Additional requirements:

a) No secondary solution with the elevation of problem, in particular the task To Block a man, two men blocked, or the King and man blocked, the King blocked instead of a man; two and more men blocked instead of the King will be considered to be a solution of problem.

b) Each composition variation may contain o­nly two Duals.

2.1.2. Category B: problems without Kings in the initial position. The theme: the problem should result in an economical final blocking (Black pieces blocked), either immediately after the combination or after the endgame.

The blocking is economical when White has no more pieces left than necessary for winning.

Examples of permitted blockings: [№1. D0 – 45/ D50 – 0; №2. D46 – 41/ D47 – 0; №3. D50 – 44,35/ D49 – 40,45], examples of not permitted blockings: [№1. D0 – 35/ D44 – 40, (the victory may be achieved without piece 40); №2. D50 – 44, 35/ D45, 49 – 40, (the victory may be achieved without piece 40)].

Further conditions:

a) White to move and win;

b) In the initial position, the minimum number of pieces allowed is 9x10 or 10x9; the maximum number is 12x12. In the initial position, the difference between White and Black (Black and White) must not exceed o­ne piece. The problems have to meet the requirements of the Master Level or Superior Level as identified in 1^st Part of RI CPI FMJD.

2.1.3. Category C: problems with the same conditions as Category B, besides the number of pieces.

In the initial position, the minimum number of pieces allowed is 12x13 or 13x12; the maximum number is 14x14. In the initial position, the difference between White and Black (Black and White) must not exceed one piece. The problems shall correspond to the Master Lever or Superior Level as identified in 1^st Part of RI CPI FMJD.

Byelorussian problemists paid a membership deposit to OOBFSh and other interested problemists from any other country can participate without any fee.

2.2. The tournament is planned to be completed at 01.05.2008.

2.3. Each participant may present not more than two compositions per category. The letter or email must contain the full name, the postal address, a diagram of each participating composition, the category and the full solution.

2.4. Compositions shall be sent by 01.08.2007 to the address of Mr. Shulga Victor (the Contact) at 220051 Belarus, town of Minsk, Esenin Street, building 63, flat 7

Or e-mail: shulga-@mail.ru .

E-mail messages should contain what is mentioned under 2.3. The Contact will confirm the reception of the compositions to the participants.

2.5. The jury members for Category B and C:

Jaap Bus (Germany)

Evgraf Zubov (Russia)

Nikolay Grushevsky (Belarus).

The jury members for Category A:

Evgraf Zubov (Russia)

Leonid Vitoshkin (Belarus).

The contact of Tournament is Victor Shulga (Belarus).

2.6. The following composition are not allowed for categories A, B and C:

2.6.1. Team compositions

2.6.2. Compositions that participated in any other competition

2.6.3. Compositions which are corrected variation of compositions participating in previous competitions (except for category A)

2.6.4. Published (in particular at Internet) compositions

3. Winner criteria

3.1. In each category, winners will be determined separately

3.2. Each composition will be scored and a place will be awarded.

3.3. The final score of each problem will be the sum of the average of the highest and lowest scores and the central score.

4. Awards

4.1. Authors of problems which won 1^st – 3^rd places in each category will be awarded with diplomas of OOBFSh, medals and sponsor prizes.

4.4. These regulations have been agreed with CPI FMJD. According to the current Statute of CPI FMJD, participants of Category B and C will obtain score points for further award of international titles.

5. Announcements

5.1. The announcement of tournament will be made o­n the web-sites of A. Kandurov (http://www.shashki.com), TAVLEI (http://www.gambler.ru/plus/tavlei/), FMJD (http://fmjd.org) and OOBFSh (http://belarus.fmjd.org)

5.2.5.2. The provisional and final results will be published o­n the web-sites of A. Kandurov (http://www.shashki.com), TAVLEI (http://www.gambler.ru/plus/tavlei/), FMJD (http://fmjd.org) and OOBFSh (http://belarus.fmjd.org), site of Eric van Dusseldorp (http://www.ericsdamsite.com).