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Kostas Prentos - Retros Editor |
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I was born on August 28th,
1966, in Thessaloniki Greece. I graduated from the Economic
University of Thessaloniki and I work as an accountant. I am not
married.
I
learned the moves of chess when I was 12 years old and started
playing more seriously at the age of 16. All I could achieve in the
tournament arena was the title of FIDE Master in 1995.
In the
last years, I gradually lost interest and gave up tournament chess
to concentrate on problem solving and composing. As a result, I was
awarded the title of International Solving Master in 2004 and have
two GM norms.
I
composed my first problems before the age of 15, but I published my
first one much later. Between 1987 and 1991 roughly a dozen of my
problems were published. After a long break, I resumed chess
composition in 2001. I have published 175 problems in total. Two
thirds are proof games; of the rest, orthodox helpmates and fairies
hold the biggest share.
More
than half of my published problems are joint compositions. About 130
have been honored so far; 44 among them being prizes. To date, I
have 6 entries in the FIDE album (or 4.5 points) |
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Kostas Prentos & Dan Meinking
3rd Prize
StrateGems 2001
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h=6½
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4b3/7r/8/8/4p1p1/1K3prp/5Rqk/5Bss
Solution:
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1…Ba6! 2.Bb5 Kc2 3.Bf1 Be2 4.fxe2 Rf8! 5.Rf7 Kd2 6.Rf2 Rf3 7.exf3
Ke1=
Bi-coloured Turton and Bristol line clearances doubled.
ODT in a single solution.
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Kostas Prentos
1st-2nd Prize e.a.
Thema Danicum 2004
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h#3 2
solutions (4+7) C+ |
2r5/8/6b1/8/1p6/1P2p3/1p2P3/1sk1KS2
Solution:
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1.Rf8 Sg3 2.Rf3 exf3 3.Bc2 Se2#
1.Rd8? Sg3 2.Rd3 exd3 3.(Bc2)??
1.Rc2? Sg3 2.Rxe2+ ?? 3.Bc2 Sxe2#
1.Be8
Sd2 2.Ba4 bxa4 3.Rc2 Sb3#
1.Bf7? Sd2 2.Bc4 bxc4 3.(Rc2)??
1.Bc2? Sd2 2.Bxb3 ?? 3.Rc2 Sxb3#
Active black sacrifices for square vacation and creation of tempo.
Sacrificing on the wrong square fails each time, due to interfering
with the black blocker’s route to c2.
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Kostas
Prentos
& Andrey Frolkin
1st Prize
Die Schwalbe 2006
Dedicated to Werner Keym
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PG 26.0
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rs1q4/2ppp2k/3r3s/2b1pb1p/8/2PKp3/RPP5/2BQ1BSR
Solution:
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1.h4 a5
2.h5 a4 3.h6 a3 4.hxg7 h5 5.g4 Sh6 6.g8B Bg7 7.g5 Bd4 8.g6 f6
9.Bd5 Bc5 10.Bc6 0-0 11.g7 Kh7 12.g8R bxc6 13.Rg5 Ba6
14.Re5 fxe5 15.f4 Rf6 16.f5 Rd6 17.f6 Bc4 18.f7 Bxa2 19.f8Q
Be6 20.Qf3 a2 21.Qd5 axb1S 22.Ra2 Sc3 23.dxc3 cxd5 24.Kd2 d4
25.Kd3 Bf5+ 26.e4 dxe3 e.p.++
Combination of Ceriani/Frolkin AUW with Valladao. A task proposed by
Werner Keym, in a proof game rendering.
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Kostas Prentos
2nd Prize
Tzuica, Jurmala 2008
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hs#4 2 solutions (6+7) C+ |
b1r5/2pK3p/1p5k/2Q2P1p/2B2P2/8/4R3/8
Solution:
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1.Re7
Rh8 2.Bg8 Bd5 3.Ke8 Bxg8 4.Qc6+ Be6#
1.Bb5
Bh1 2.Rg2 Rg8 3.Kc6 Rxg2 4.Qf8+ Rg7#
Following black’s critical move, a white piece closes the line
providing a flight to the white king. Its black counterpart captures
this white piece creating a battery, which is activated by the white
queen’s checks. Orthogonal / diagonal transformation.
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