<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Joose, deal all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Classical-style retros
dominated the scene until the end of the 1980s; then a PG boom began; some 10
years later, fairy retros came to prominence. Kornilov and I published two
articles in <i>feenschach</i> in the mid-2000s trying to encourage colleagues
to prevent the decline of the classical-style domain, but the trend towards a
retro section almost devoid of “classicism” could not be reversed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To me, and I am sure to quite
a few other retro friends, classical style was a very special kind of problems
engulfed in the magic of OTB chess. I don’t think composers like Plaksin,
Kornilov, Hazebrouck or me would have become retro analysts if retrograde
analysis had been associated at that time almost exclusively with e.g.
Anti-Circe retractors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kornilov and I wrote 20 years
ago that in some cases judging classical-style retros alongside of fairy retros
is like judging a runner and a motorcyclist as to whose speed is highest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But of course having three
subsections for retros: a) classical style; b) PGs; c) fairy retros would
require having at least 9 judges (3*3) and that is unrealistic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">However, classical-style
retroanalysis is far from exhaustion, as proven many times by composers like Dmitry
Baibikov, Joaquim Crusats, Michel Caillaud and some others. I fully agree with
Andrew:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">retro is
the home for retros - let's keep like that.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yours,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Andriy</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">вс, 26 янв. 2025 г. в 04:36, andrew buchanan <<a href="mailto:andrew@anselan.com">andrew@anselan.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Hi Joose,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I can understand that today PGs dominate some retro spaces. But in the long term, non-PG retros may come to prominence again, or new forms of non-PG retro may be imagined. Conceptually, retro is the home for retros - let's keep like that.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So my strong preference would be to keep Section H as retro, please, even though the chosen theme this year is almost certain to be PG.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for all your work, Andriy & others.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">All the best,<br></div><div dir="ltr">Andrew</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 01:44:31 AM GMT+8, joose norri <<a href="mailto:joose_norri@hotmail.com" target="_blank">joose_norri@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:
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Outside the topic of this post, well slightly, it's really the time to make it plainly a PG section. There is no sense in pretending anymore.</div>
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This, not being an official platform, I'll just put this forward. But naturally it could be put forward elsewhere too. If it is really wanted that it is a retro section, then this should be taken under serious consideration; or else it should be admitted that
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<b>Subject:</b> [Retros] Solicitation for themes for WCCT-12 Section H</span>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">At present, efforts are underway to launch WCCT-12 as soon as possible. Apparently, Valery Kopyl will be (or has already been) approved as WCCT-12 Director. To the best of my knowledge, the teams of the Russian
Federation and Belarus won’t participate again.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">I’ve been asked to solicit proposals for Section H themes, to be followed by voting on the choice of one theme.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">So far, only one proposal has been received, from Romania.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">I’ve sent a solicitation for themes for Section H to almost 20 addresses, but I believe it makes sense to repeat this solicitation here as well. So if you have for Section H themes, please send them to me
(preferably with at least one example). A possible deadline could be January 31.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">This will be followed by voting.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">Presumably, a PG theme will again be selected, as there seem to be not enough countries where composers publish high-quality classical-style retros. Moreover, although fairy retractors are abundant these
days, there are not many countries where such problems are created. But there is no ban on proposing any sort of retro themes.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"New serif"">Andrey (Andriy) Frolkin</span></p>
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