Marjan KovaÄević
Marjan Kovačević ( Serbian Cyrillic Марјан Ковачевић; born April 8, 1957) is a Serbian chess composer.
Chess composition
In the third world championship of chess composition, he finished in fairy chess 2nd place in the 2nd Division. In the seventh World Cup, he was behind the Ukrainians Valentin Rudenko (108 rating points) with 86.5 rating points, the second most successful composer. He finished second in this event, the third in the three- Zügern and second place in the fairy chess. With the Serbian national team, he won the world championship title as well as the second European Championship in solving chess problems and studies in 2006 in Warsaw.
In 2007, his PCCC granted the title Grand Master for chess composition. Since 1988 he is Grand Master in solving chess compositions, his rating in solving is 2557 (as of July 1, 2012, 19 of the world rankings ), his previous highest rating of 2697 Since 1989 he has been International Jury for two Züger. . For Serbia is the living end in Zemun delegate to the PCCC.
Marjan Kovačević wrote books about chess compositions and chess articles, for example reviews for Mat Plus, the Serbian problem solver society and chess articles for the Belgrade daily Politika. From him several series also appeared in the Belgrade publishing Caissa Commerce plastic coated coasters with chess compositions and a solution coasters under the name " drink problem ".
OTB
In OTB his Elo rating is 2213 ( as of January 2009), but it will run as inactive because he has not played a game more -evaluated since 2004.
Example of composition
Solution: 1 ka5 - b5! ( 2 threatens Tc1 - c4 matte) 1 ... Dh5xc5 2 La7xc5 matt 1 ... d5 2 - DH5 Nb4 - c6 matt 1 ... DH5 - e8 2 Sc5 - d7 matt 1 ... DH5 e2 2 Sc5 -d3 matt 1 ... Sf2 -e4 2 Te2xe4 matt 1 ... Ld2 - c3 -c2 2 Nb4 matt 1 ... 2 Ld2xc1 Nb4 -d5 matt 1 ... 2 Nb4 Ld2 -e3 -d3 matt
Publications
- Milan Velimirović, Marjan Kovačević: 2345 chess problems - Anthology of Chess Combinations. Chess Informant, Belgrade 1997, ISBN 86-7297-031-4.