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Maybe You remember from my previous profile here, that <'while cleaning the attic, <someone> confounded my games with garbage'> - it was an intentionally humourous, but true way of relating how my own chess playing records are fragmentary . Not a stern loss to anyone, of course - besides, perhaps, for myself if I was intending to collect my own games. Following games are from events that proceeded without a formal bulletin, and, in many instances, without even the assemblage of all score-sheets

Match Paraná vs Rio de Janeiro in the students olympiads – last round. We were leading, and a single point could be the ‘golden medal game’. In such situations You would avoid hazardous play, right? Yes, and in that specific event I was unbeaten so far – they joked: ‘Mr. Draw‘ ... Well, after some magistral wood-shifting, we arrived to 23.d3 – some nasty threats over the side, so... I won a ! Then, following in the same – wise – adagio time... a second ! (well, this time should be 33. takes the ‘h4’ – to avoid h4-h3 and some annoyances... Later (my 'zeitnot' again) he managed to obtain a series of checks, I returned part of the advantage and it became a lenghty s endgame – well, You know – white won (and – yes!- the golden medal was won already too – to be the second board with Sunyé in the first and Fukuda ('the samurai') in the third was so tranquilizing...)

[Event "JUBS - Bra U-26 Ol"]
[Site "João Pessoa"]
[Date "1979.7.??"]
[Round "last"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "Machado da Gama, Hermes A "]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 Bd7 8.Bd3 Bc6 9.c3 Nd7 10.O-O Nb6 11.Re1 O-O 12.Qc2 Nd5 13.Rad1 h6 14.Qd2 Be7 15.Ne5 Be8 16.Bb1 Nf6 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6 18.Ng4 h5 19.Nxf6+ Qxf6 20.Re5 g6 21.Qh6 Qg7 22.Qf4 Rd8 23.Rd3 Rd5 24.Rxd5 exd5 25.Qxc7 Bc6 26.Re3 Qf6 27.Qe7 Qf4 28.Qe5 Qh6 29.Qf6 Re8 30.Rxe8+ Bxe8 31.f4 h4 32.Qg5 Qf8 33.Qxd5 h3 34.gxh3 Qh6 35.Qf3 Bd7 36.Be4 Bxh3 37.Bxb7 Qh4 38.Qg3 Qh5 39.Bf3 1-0

From the last round of the traditional International Open in the ‘City of the Princes’ – he was playing for a win with black to become a joint winner – I selected a lesser known variation – and soon a very interesting motif appeared: 15.f4!! A piece ‘en prise’? – offer another! – many pages of analysis searching to demonstrate that the counter-sac was still the lesser evil... But after 20...0-0, the best finish was: 21.d5! (or to ‘e4’) h8 () 22.xf6 gxf6 23.xe5! g8 24.f4 fxe5 25.xe5+ f6 26.xb8 h3!? 27.xb7! and wins) – Well, I won, but after a protracted endgame full of vicissitudes and two time-scrambles ( My Botticelli became a shaggy sketch... I will spare You of the moves here – “and white won”) – thus: becoming myself a joint winner!... França Garcia, from São Paulo, died still very young, in tragic circumstances, in the early 80’s <note: "In 1982, at 26, from the consequences of a railway <accident>"> position after 15...e5

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[Event "Open"]
[Site "Joinville"]
[Date "1981.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "França Garcia, Antônio José"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 dxe5 5.Nxe5 e6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.Qf3 Bd6 8.Nxd7 Nxd7 9.Ne4 Be7 10.O-O Qb6 11.Ba4 Qa6 12.Nc3 Rb8 13.Bb5 Qd6 14.d3 a6 15.Bf4 e5 16.Bxe5 Qxe5 17.Rfe1 axb5 18.Rxe5 Nxe5 19.Qg3 Bf6 20.Re1 O-O 21.Rxe5 Bxe5 22.Qxe5 Bd7 23.Qxc5 1-0
A problem can contain three stages, called ‘phases’ (like musical ‘movements’, or theatrical ‘acts’, namely SET (suppose black was to play); VIRTUAL (tries) and REAL (solution) – A good solver is the interpreter of the composer’s message, being able to set up a ‘montage’ (edition) of the contents in every detail. In the following, there’s a whole virtual phase – white s try e7,f8,d8, and each to d4; and black dodges with just three moves: d6-d5, d5 and a4. The key (or ‘real play’) changes this setting. A finnish commentator wrote: “A dialogue between the white s and the black ”. Z Kornin
“Suomen Shakki” 1997

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#2 Mate in Two

A good plan for White: h6-g4-f6 or e5 - the question is: f5 of h3 (one can be the key, and the other a try...) - attention to black's best defense 1...c7!, and the Queen sacrifice 2.a6! - variations includes pin-mates, cross-checks and underpromotion

Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1998
1st Honorable Mention

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#3 White to play and mate in three moves

The idea - an eight variations "Siers-Rössel" composition with a Knight in a six jumps starting point. Be sure You find all variations, then the problem will be solved
Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1999
1st Honorable Mention

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#3 White to play and mate in three moves

<the very mag in which C. Schlechter won also 1st HM in the #3 contest in 1910>

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Maybe some of the fellow kibitzers here still remember the "Belén-Story" - from middle 2004... A complete overview of that 'online workshop' is to be found in an article, by Hanspeter Suwe, in magazine "König & Turm".

***** Babson-Task: The apotheosis of Echo-Promotions Theme... - Some Years ago, I imagined following scheme:

Try: =? - - - Refutation =!
Key: =! - - -

...extending the task to a virtual play! Try (pseudo-key) and try's refutation (only move) displaying an echo-promotion... (Well - Chess Composition is 'The Art of the Possible' - After many researches, we arrived to an unique working position http://christian.poisson.free.fr/pr...

More on 'Babsons' here in this animated <list> (in German) by Siegfried Hornecker. Some 'cyclic' included http://sh-kunstschach.eu/pgnlisten/...

And in this article in "Mat-Plus Forum" even a 'shortest proof-game' by Mario Richter http://www.milanvel.net/mp/snapshot...

On Composition - articles (<"The Task of the Changing Pin-Mates Following Flights">: http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...

<"An Original for the Holidays"> http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...

<"One Setting, Many Concepts"> http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...