Yesterday, the number of problems in Meson went past 76,000, which to me at least is quite a milestone as I keyed them all in! Just recently I have caught up with the problems published in the German magazine Troll, which are made available by its chess problem editor Udo Degener on his website. Udo also edits the problem section of the German chess magazine Schach and he provides recent awards on his website.
Paul Valois continues to dig in the newspaper libraries. Just recently he has handed me the entire contents of the chess problem column in The Tablet from 1919 to 1968. I am in the middle of 1927 at the moment. I must take this opportunity of again paying tribute to Paul, whose research work is invaluable to Meson.
All the #2s from all the FIDE Albums (including the annexes) are now in Meson. Most of the other Meson types are too, with just the last four volumes to work through. When that is finished that will be another milestone. Probably just in time for the publication of another FIDE Album!
The Final of the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship (WCBCSC) is next Saturday, 16th February. As all invited competitors will have read in their invitations, the deadline for entries is Wednesday 13th February. If you haven’t yet confirmed your participation and wish to solve, then please contact me immediately. All the problems have been selected and all the sheets typeset and proofread. Only the copying remains to be done.
Earlier today, while listening to The World at One and planning the contents of this post, I heard the sad news that the fairly new digital radio station The Jazz, run by the same people as Classic FM, was to close down. Just when I had discovered it and was going to plug it here. Sadly, it seems that not all commercial DAB stations are commercial enough.
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