Fairings by Chris FeatherEnjoy the last Fairings issue in 2012 – Fairings No.28! All Fairings issues – 1-28 – you can see from the Articles page. Our gratitude to Chris Feather for sharing his ideas! |
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Updates as of 03-04.Nov, 2012: |
(03.11) I’ve added 4 more of my published problems. I guess that many of you have already seen them, as these are KoBul Kings problems I’ve already shown in thematic issue Ideas with KoBul Kings. Anyway, had to add them, as I’ve decided to to create a full list of all my published problems (luckily, I don’t have too many of them! 🙂 ). You can see 36 of them in My Problems section, or the last problems added directly from here:
- No.33 – Light Miniature with KoBul Kings
- No.34 – My the very best of KoBul Kings
- No.35 – Joint problem with Petko A. Petkov, Locusts in KoBul Kings problem
- No.36 – A simple one, good idea with a weak realization?
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Updates as of 30.Oct-02.Nov, 2012:Isn’t it a week of Superguards-problems? 🙂
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- (30.10) Welcome to India’s leading composer – C.G.S.Narayanan! See the first superguards problem published anywhere (not counting the examples in Tourney announcement) – No.159 !
- Superguards Tourney and the announcement by A.P.I. about new closing date for Enzo Minerva-50 JT 2012 are added to the Tourneys section.
- Also, I’ve added a page with tourneys’ results available from the top of the Tourneys page. There’re just a few results for now. But hopefully, will be more soon!
- (31.10) I’ve added 2 more of my published problems, h# with Mao/Moa again, which are like a series of problems together with recently shown No.30:
– No.31 – MAO, soma MOA, Locust, Lions pieces;
– No.32 – MAO, MOA, PAO, VAO pieces.
Superguards-tourney
To celebrate his birthday and his fairy invention Superguards,
K.Seetharaman, (India) announces
a Theme Tourney for problems featuring Superguards,
the new Fairy Condition.
Definition of Superguards:
Any piece (including Kings and pawns), which is observed by another piece of the same color cannot be captured. Pinned pieces also observe.
The tourney will have two sections:
Section A is for Directmates in Two or Three moves.
Section B is for Helpplay problems of up to three moves, of the following types:
Helpmates, Helpselfmates, Help-stalemates and Help-selfstalemates.
Twins allowed in Section A. Twins and multisolutions (but no Zero positions) allowed in Section B. No other fairy conditions or fairy pieces are allowed.
Judge: K.Seetharaman
Computer-tested problems may be sent to the Tourney Director Mr.C.G.S.Narayanan (India) by email. <cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com> At present Superguards problems can be checked in WinChloe. (version 3.20).
Book prizes will be awarded.
All participants will receive the award by email.
Closing date of the Tourney March 18, 2013.
→See the the full announcement with examples of Superguards problems HERE!
Welcome to participate!!
Site Updates-281012
Updates as of 28.Oct, 2012:Today I’ve added some more of my published problems. You can see 30 of them in My Problems section, or the last problems added directly from here:
The first snow is here, in Riga, starting Friday… 🙂 |
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Updates as of 24-25.Oct, 2012:
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You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.
(16.10) The Thematic tourney Julia’sFairies-HSP-2012 is closed. See my post about participants of the tourney! Thanks again to all authors! And.. I’d appreciate your ideas for the next tourneys!! But for now – we’re waiting for the results!
New: Forum
I’ve just added a Forum to the site!
Still not sure if it might be interesting or not, but probably have to try to find out! 🙂
For now I’ve created some groups there, but any changes are possible of course! I’d appreciate your suggestions about the topics to add!
TOP menu of the site is almost full and I don’t like to create the second line for it for now, so I’ve added a link to the Forum on the right part, right above Recent Posts.
You need a registration to post anything to the forum. If you have registered on the site (on the bottom part of the right area) – the same registration works for the forum. The Login on the welcome screen of the forum can be used instead of general Login on the site.
I’ve tested it a little. But, I’m afraid, some errors are still possible. Please be patient! And I’d be grateful for your help in testing!
Sincerely, Julia
Sant’Ambrogio-2012
The 5th Sant’Ambrogio 2012
Chess Problems Meeting
The purpose is to have three/four days for meeting each other and talking of chess composition! Of course there will be mini-lectures, composing tourneys etc. ”
Site Updates-211012
Updates as of 15-21.Oct, 2012:
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You can click on the Original Problems tab on the top to see the whole list of published problems. Problem numbers are links to the problems – click on any number to see the problem. Standard search using Ctrl+F also works for the list.
(20.10) Slowly I’m trying to add my published problems on the site. Mostly for myself, I guess 🙂 . But anyway, the new problems added to My problems are: No.18, No.19, No.20, No.22. (I’m using the order of composing; if some numbers are not shown yet – it means, that a problem is not published yet and will be shown under this number later, after publication)
(16.10) The Thematic tourney Julia’sFairies-HSP-2012 is closed. See my post about participants of the tourney! Thanks again to all authors! And.. I’d appreciate your ideas for the next tourneys!! But for now – we’re waiting for the results!
(15.10) New issue of Fairings by Chris Feather – Fairings No.27 – Oct/2012 – is added to the Articles page!
(15.10) Dear Visitors and Commentators! Today I’ve installed several plugins to prevent spam comments (several hundreds per day) and registration of spam-users (I had about 900 of them!). Otherwise I had to delete them manually. But of course, I’m afraid that either your comments can be considered as spam in some cases, or new registrations. I apologize for all possible inconveniences and I’d be grateful if you write me in case of any problems with commenting on the site. You know, I appreciate your comments here a lot, as I believe all the authors do.
JF-HSP-2012-Closed
The 1st Thematic Tourney by JULIA’S FAIRIES – HSP – 2012 Closed on 15-Oct-2012! |
I’m so much happy to tell you that 64 problems by 39 authors from 20 countries are submitted to the tourney! I appreciate your efforts a lot and I’m so thankful to all participants! I wish to all of you to be successful there!!
You can see a list of participants here! I hope that everything is right, but in case if you’ve sent an entry to me and haven’t find yourself in this list – please, let me know!
The Award will be published on Julia’s Fairies site in December of 2012. Also, it will be sent by email to all participants. Same as you, I will be waiting for it a lot! And I hope that the winners will get the sweets by Christmas!
RULES: Help-self problems (HSP) of any possible types: Help-self mates (HS#), HS=, HS==, HR#, HR=, etc.
in any number of moves.
THEME: Battery-play with fairy elements
JUDGE: IGM Petko A. Petkov – International Judge of FIDE