Original handwritten postcard from Pavlos Moutecidis sent to Ilja Mikan in 1975. It contains a chess problem with diagram and solution.

Pavlos Moutecidis (born 11 November 1930) - Greek composer and International Master of chess composition. Composed more than 3000 problems. In the years 1967 – 1975 he published many compositions in cooperation with Evgeny Sorokin.

Ilja Mikan (12 January 1911 - 12 April 1979) was a Czech composer. International Master of composition and judge for chess composition. He composed around 1200 problems, especially selfmates and three-movers in Bohemian school. He achieved 49.5 points in the FIDE Albums, won more than 215 awards, including 28 first and 47 other prizes. He was the editor of the problem section in the Czech chess magazines Sach, Ceskoslovensky sach and Sachove umeni, ran many chess columns and wrote many articles and books - Rychle vitezstvi (1947), 13 volumes of Gallery of Czechoslovak  composers (1965-75), Dobrodruzstvi 64 poli (collection of own problems, 1973) Ceske granaty 1898-1958 (works of Miroslav Havel, 1975). For many years he worked in the Czechoslovak chess organisation of composition chess and owned one of the most extensive chess libraries in Czechoslovakia.

Condition - Good to Very Good.