The Italian Problemist Association (API) organize the 3rd Mini-Tour called SAVANA-SAFARI. To the tourney will be admitted every kind of problems among 2-6 moves. Every work will have to contain one or more fairy pieces among the following, which are characteristic animals of the African savannah:

Each composer may participate with an unlimited number of problems, but only one of his/her entries per round will score points. Ten problems will be ranked in four rounds and will be awarded points as follows:

   The site Julia’s Fairies announces its 1st  Thematic Tourney JULIA’S FAIRIES - HSP 2012.

   Theme: Help-self problems (HSP) of any possible types: Help-self mates (HS#), HS=, HS==, HR#, HR=, etc. in any number of moves with battery-play with fairy elements.

The organizing board of Tata Steel Chess Tournament announces an international composing tourney for endgame studies. No set theme.

   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.

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.

   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 Romanian chess-problem magazine Quartz has dedicated its 8th Thematic Tourney to a new fairy condition: Memory Circe. There are two sections (retro and non-retro). The combination with other fairy pieces and / or conditions is accepted.

To celebrate Milan’s 75th birthday, StrateGems is announcing a jubilee tourney in the following sections:

Zlatko Mihajloski – 65 JT is announced by The Macedonian Problemist in honour of the 65^th birthday (on 15 March 2011) of its regular collaborator and National Master of Problem Chess.

The Gen. Fr. Kleeberg’s Community Centre in Wola Gulowska announces the twentieth third formal competition.