Fairy chess ( English fairy chess ) [1] - an area of chess composition in which there are changes to some of the generally accepted rules of the game or material [2] (new rules, pieces, other forms of the board are introduced, the goal of the game can be pat , etc.) .
Description
Widespread in the XX century in England , Hungary , Germany , the Netherlands . Thomas Dawson made a great contribution to the creation of new forms of fabulous chess.
In the Soviet chess literature, only a few fabulous varieties were published: cylindrical chess , a maximum player , tasks with new pieces (horseman, cricket, maharajah ). Major fabulous chess competitions were not held in the USSR.
Some practicing chess players treated them sharply negatively, for example, Mikhail Botvinnik called them “the quintessence of welter ” (“Welter in composition” co-authored with L. F. Spokoyn [3] ). Nevertheless, Soviet problemists had major achievements in individual fabulous chess competitions (for example, Yuri Gordian ). In the field of fairy-tale chess, Vladimir Nabokov tried his hand, who was proud of his task “White take a turn back”, dedicated to Yevgeny Znosko-Borovsky and published in the emigrant newspaper “ Latest News ” in Paris [4] .
In 1988, the magazine 64 - Chess Review made an attempt to systematize fabulous genres of chess composition:
- unorthodox genres proper (cooperative and reverse mats)
- maximum measure
- circus (including its varieties)
- madrasi
- patrol chess
- cylindrical chess
- grid board
- magic chess (two types - magic fields and magic figures)
- chess with neutral pieces
- chess with new pieces (crickets, horsemen, etc. - horse-type pieces are especially popular)
- Augsburg chess
- frankfurt chess
- chinese chess
- changes in the rules of the course of familiar pieces (for example, berolina - a pawn that moves diagonally and strikes forward vertically)
- chess with additional pieces (simulator, prism, billiard elephants)
- duel chess
- quantum chess
However, this list is not exhaustive.
Nowadays fabulous chess is an obligatory section in the team world championships [5] and in Russia in chess composition. All leading modern publications on chess composition, including Russian ones, also have a fairy-tale section.
See also
- Orthodox composition
- Unorthodox composition
- Special types of composition
- Chess challenge
- Genre (chess composition)
Notes
- ↑ Code of Chess Composition Ch. II, Art . 7, sn . 13 (English)
- ↑ Code of Chess Composition Ch. II, Art . 7, Sc . 12 (English)
- ↑ Botvinnik M.M., Calm L.F. Sumbur in composition . // "Chess in the USSR", 1936, No. 3. Date of treatment August 1, 2015.
- ↑ Nabokov V. Speak, Memory.— NY: A Wideview / Perigee Book.— 1966.— p. 15
- ↑ Rules for the World Chess Composition Team Championship
Literature
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 360. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- Fairy Chess // Games and Entertainment / Comp. L.M. Firsova. - Prince 2. - M .: Young Guard, 1990. - S. 83-86. - 234 p.