Category: Julia’s Fairies original problems

Updates as of 02th of July, 2013: (02.07) No.344 – Pierre Tritten & S. K. Balasubramanian – Non-standard combination of AUW and Albinothemes in 4 solutions! (02.07) No.343 – Vlaicu Crișan & Klaus Wenda – Complicated strategy is demonstrated in a joint problem by two big masters of modern composition – already well-known at Julia’s Fairies Vlaicu Crișan and Austrian GM dr. Klaus Wenda! (02.07) Fairings 32 – Chris Feather – I’m happy to tell you, that thanks to the help of Stephen Emmerson we can see the new issue of Fairings! It is also added to the Articles page.

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 28th of June, 2013: (28.06) No.342 – Julia Vysotska – Anti-batteries, reciprocal play of two pairs of pieces, Take&Make with activity of the white King! And a long comment  🙂

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 20-24th of June, 2013: (24.06) No.340, 341 – Václav Kotěšovec – Two unique aristocratic miniatures in typical great Vaclav’s echo style! (24.06) No.339 – Sébastien Luce –  A nice 5-men Aristocrat! (22.06) No.338 – Gani Ganapathi –  Non-standard play of different types of Pawns! (20.06) No.337 – Julia Vysotska – Bishop– and Rook-Locust reciprocally close lines for each other!

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 10-16 June, 2013: (16.06) No.336 – František Sabol – It’s a rare case when I’ve a selfmate to publish! Welcome to František ! (15.06) No.335 – Alain Bienabe – A very  nice 5-men!  (12.06) No.334 – Pierre Tritten – Fairy HOTF problem! (11.06) No.333 – Dominique Forlot  – Nice to see that condition “Back Home” by Nicolas Dupont is going to become popular! (10.06) No.332 – Nicolas Dupont  – Author shows an example of his own condition – “Back Home” – with 4 interesting promotions (see an article “The back-home fairy condition – Nicolas Dupont“)!

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 06 June, 2013: (06.06) No.331 – Chandrasekaran KR –  An active play of white Knights in Superguards problem!

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 02-04 June, 2013: (04.06) No.330 – Michael Grushko & Semion Shifrin –  Surprising four-men with AUW! (03.06) No.329 – S.K.Balasubramanian – Fireworks of Chinese-Indian effects! (02.06) No.327,328 – Stephan Dietrich -Two serial problems with jumping units – mooses, eagles, sparrows! (02.06) No.326.1 – Michel Caillaud & Julia Vysotska – Improved version to No.326 with a gratitude to commentators!

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 30-31 May, 2013: (31.05) No.326 – Michel Caillaud & Julia Vysotska – Entertaining problem with promoted Chameleons. (31.05) No.325 – Paul Rãican – A strange and difficult PG-play! (30.05) No.324 – Manfred Rittirsch – The problem below is C- and uses a combination of two conditions – Anticirce + Superguards. It opens a question about treating of this combination by solving programs.

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 23-25 May, 2013: (25.05) No.323 – Geoff Foster – A very nice three-men with Poseidons’ play! I’m really surprised that Poseidon has became so popular here! (23.05) No.322 – Pierre Tritten – Non-standard use of Poseidon with an exotic fairy condition! (and this time Pierre’s problem doesn’t show take&make!!)

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 13-15 May, 2013: (15.05) No.321 – Themistoklis Argirakopoulos – A fine marine AUW demonstrated with tries! (14.05) No.320 – Daniel Novomesky – Another nice Aristocrat-Miniature! A play of 5 Hurdle color changing Grasshoppers! (13.05) No.319 – Georgy Evseev – A nice Aristocrat-miniature with echo-play!! I like to see this “Marine problem” with Triton‘s play!

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov. 

Updates as of 08-10 May, 2013: (10.05) No.316,317,318 – Valerio Agostini & Antonio Garofalo, Gabriele Brunori – Salute to Italian trio with 3 different h#2 problems: Take & Make, Checkless Chess, Anti-Circe!  (09.05) No.315 – Stephan Dietrich – A nice four-men with Poseidon and echo-play!  (08.05) No.314 – Luis Miguel Martín – A nice “marine pins” after promotions into TR and NE! (08.05) No.286.1 – Gani Ganapathi & Juraj Lörinc –  This joint problem is an improved version to No.286 – an elegant and difficult for solving! As No.286 relates to the previous tourney, JF-2013-I, it will be excluded from there; but this new version participates in JF-2013-II.

Now there are three sections under the Original Problems top menu: Julia’sFairies-2012 with all problems of the year 2012; Julia’sFairies-2013(I) with all problems of January-April, 2013; Julia’sFairies-2013(II) will contain problems of May-August, 2013. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2013(II) – Diyan Kostadinov.