IM Diyan Kostadinov |
![]() So far Diyan has composed and published about 300 problems of all genres of composition and has won a great number of prizes in tournaments all over the world including Olympic Silver medal in 2010 (for Selfmates), Olympic Gold Medal in 2016 (for Selfmates), 2nd place for the World Cup in 2010 (for Fairy problems), 2nd place for the World Cup in 2011 and 2013 (for Selfmates), Bronze medal in Selfmate section of the World Championship in composing for individuals 2010-2012 and many more.
Diyan Kostadinov is awarded the title of National Master of Sports in chess composition (many times over reached the normatives for awarding this title just in 1 year!). From 2015 he is also "International Master of the FIDE for chess composition". Diyan has 42 FIDE Album points (the collections of the best chess problems from three year periods). He is International Judge of FIDE for chess composition (selfmates and fairies).
Diyan is an author of many scientific articles in international magazines and he has also delivered lectures on World congresses for chess composition. In 2006 Diyan has published a book with the selection of his problems.
He is the inventor of the fairy conditions "KoBul Kings", "Anti Take & Make", "Circe X", "SneK chess" and "Circle SneK".
It is probably interesting that Diyan is also a magician. Using the artistic name "Hektor", he is a laureate from the professional magician festivals: Smolyan 2001 (Excellent Prize of the Jury), 3rd Balkan Congress of magicians - Belgrad 2002 (3rd Prize for Manipulations), Sofia 2003 (The Golden cylinder), 4th Balkan Congress of magicians - Sofia 2004 (2nd Prize for Manipulations), 5th Balkan Congress of magicians - Istanbul 2006 (3rd Prize in Close-Up category and Special Prize for Manipulations), European and 6th Balkan Congress of magicians - Sofia 2008 (1st Prize in Card Magic category and Special prize for Manipulations).
Diyan works as a Casino Manager. He is also a project manager of the ChessComposer - an app for Adroid OS smartphones and tablets.
Since 2008 Diyan has been married to Snejina and their daughter Martina was born on 06.12.2017.
To see his selected compositions, please click HERE. |
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