TIM KRABBE 60!

 
by Rene Olthof

Yesterday Tim Krabbe, author, chess player and cyclist, celebrated his 60th birthday.
For many, many years now chess players all over the world have been enjoying his articles on chess in general and chess curiosities in particular.
At the moment Krabbe, a celebrated author some books of whom have been turned into motion pictures both in the Netherlands and abroad, maintains one of the most attractive free chess sites of the world (www.timkrabbe.nl/chess)

On this site you can find the provisional award of two unique tourneys for chess composition, initiated by Krabbe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. One section for chess problems (moremovers) and one for endgame studies. The (provisional) winners are the Polish composer Andrzej Jasik and Emil Melnichenko from New Zealand, who was born in Salzburg (Austria) in 1950 and has been active and successful in the world of chess composition for more than 25 years.

The Provisional Award of the endgame study section can be downloaded (in English and in Dutch) as a PDF-file under www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60jt_en.pdf or www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60jt_nl.pdf.

For both sections Palview pages have been created. Here you can play over the problems and studies online or download them as PGN-files.

The complete set of links is as follows:

www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60pr.html
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60pr_e.html
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60pr.pgn
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/problems.htm
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60st.html
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60st_e.html
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/tk60st.pgn
www.timkrabbe.nl/tk60/studies.htm

Rene Olthof
Tourney Director TK60-JT
endgame Study Section