Important instructions for the composing tourneys (5-days CT & 8 hours CT):
Dear participants, tomorrow, 9th November 2022, at 2:00 PM (11:00 AM CET), the 5-days composing tourney will be announced (stipulation: h#2, judge: Shankar Ram, prize fund 1.200 euro).
Don’t miss to read the announcement before your long flights, and, please, take care about the new system of entering the entries through the Mat Plus website (see the instructions below)!
After the announcement you will be able to test the system. It will allow you to check your entries at any time and to correct them up to the final deadline, on 14th November 2:00 PM (11:00 AM CET).
The same system of entering will be used for both 8 hours competitions, to be announced on 13th November.
Instructions for entering your entries on MatPlus website (matplus.net):
WCCC Fujairah QCT & 5DT
For three competitions at the World Congress in Fujairah, authors will enter their problems through the Matplus website.
They are two quick composing tournaments (8 hours) #2 and h#2.5 and a 5-day composing tournament h#2. Only those problems where the author or at least one of the co-authors is a participant of the Congress are in the competition. One author’s name can be in a maximum of two problems in each of the tournaments.
This is the first time that problems for congress competitions have been submitted through this site.
How to submit problems through the site?
Problems can only be entered by a user logged in to the site. He selects the page Original… in the menu on the left. The MP-TEC (Technical Excellence Challenge) tournament has been active on that page for two months, and now there will be also three congress tournaments:
1. WCCC 5DT h#2, 2. WCCC QCT1 #2, 3. WCCC QCT2 h#2.5.
A new problem is entered by selecting the New option and then the entry form will be opens.
First, select the tournament (Section:).
In the field for the author’s name, the user’s name is immediately entered, which can be changed.
In the field Source(s)/Remarks you should enter the name of the tourney, for 5-days CT it is WCCC 5DT, and in the field Stipulation it is h#2.
There is a Help (‘?’) next to each input field.
The position is entered in three possible ways: algebraic, FEN or MPforsyth (condensed notation).
English symbols are mandatory!
Everything is explained in detail in the Help option.
Preview the entered position by clicking on ‘Preview‘.
The solution is entered using English notation. It is recommended to copy from the program that checked the correctness of the problem, deleting redundant variants and adding author’s comments and notes.
When the input is complete, it is necessary to click on Submit (above, in the middle).
You can see your entered issues by selecting: My originals
The overview entered compositions is possible as a list or as a diagram view.
Happy composing!
If you are not a MatPlus user, you can register (sign in) or ask any other registered person to enter and submit your problem.
Only in emergency cases, you should use the reserve option – sending email to the tournament director Borislav Gadjanski: borislav.gadjanski@gmail.com.