I am glad to present you the personal web page of Julia Vysotska. She is very talented chess problem composer from Latvia and her site deserve our attention.

   As she wrote herself the main goals of the site are:

The award of 30th TT CCM was just published. Theme of the tourney was: fairy twomovers (#2 with at least one fairy element present) showing multiple threat in at least one try or solution.

  The Festival, organized by the Serbian Chess Problemists Society, will take place from 11th till 13th May 2012, as announced last Summer. The main event is the Open Solving Championship of Serbia (May 12th–13th, WCSC system, Directors: Gligor & Ivan Denkovski). The list of qualifiers from Serbia is completed, while all solvers from other countries will be welcome.

Here is the latest issue of Fairings (March 2012) by Chris Feather.

This is the second part of Alaikov's selected compositions. Here are included helpmates and fairy problems.

Here are the top three winners on each section of "Petko Petkov - 70JT" 2012 organized by Strate Gems in occasion of the 70th anniversary of GM Petko Petkov who is the World ranking number one and the best Bulgarian chess composer.

(18.03.2012) Here are presented recently honored chess compositions by bulgarian composers.

This is the first part of selected compositions by the famous bulgarian chess composer GM Venelin Alaikov. Twomovers, threemovers, moremovers and selfmates are included in part one. Part 2 will present helpmates and fairy problems. 

   Chess Composition Microweb announces formal thematical tourney for fairy helpmates in any number of moves (i.e. h#n with at least one fairy element present, n can be any) showing set play besides real solution. The set play can be of any length, from one halfmove long to one halfmove less than the normal solution, the important difference is the other side starting.

   KoBulChess.com announces memorial tourney on the occasion of GM Venelin Alaikov's 80th anniversary (born on 18.02.1933) in the following sections: 

The new issue of Fairings serie by Chris Feather is here.

The Israeli twin composers Hillel and Yoel Aloni will celebrate their 75th anniversary on September 30th 2012. To commemorate this event and their immense contribution to the development of Israeli chess composition, the ICCS (Israeli association for chess composition) announces a formal composing tourney for twin endgame studies.

Today (27^th February 2012) GM Petko Petkov is celebrating his 70^th jubilee! Petkov is one of the most famous chess composers with enormous contribution to this art. He is the author of more than 6000 (!) chess problems and a great number of books and theoretical articles, for many years he has been a constant leader in the world rank list of points in FIDE albums, Olympic and four times World champion, he has supported dozens of Bulgarian and foreign composers in their development…

The chess problem solving contest is over. It was carried out during the memorial tournament “Alexander Hadjipetrov”.