Julia’s Fairies 1st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT

Julia’s Fairies 1st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT

RigasBalzams-BlackCurrantJulia’s Fairies is pleased to announce its composing tournament within the
58th World Congress of Chess Composition

1st RIGA BLACK BALSAM TT

Judge: Julia Vysotska

Theme: Help-play with Half-neutral pieces. Thematic play of half-neutral pieces in H#/=/==, HS#/=/== problems in 2-5 moves; Ser-H#/=/==, Ser-HS#/=/== problems up to 10 moves. Other fairy pieces (also standard neutral pieces) are allowed. Fairy conditions are NOT allowed.

Computer tested problems only! Half-neutral pieces are fully implemented in the last version of Popeye and also most of problems can be tested by WinChloe, except half-neutral King (and Royal piece).

Please send entries to Julia Vysotska by e-mail at julia@juliasfairies.com until July, 31st, 2015
or during the Congress, for participants only, until 17:00 of August, 3rd, 2015.

Prizes are bottles of RIGA BLACK BALSAM Currant.
The tourney is open worldwide, however the prizes are for congress participants only.

See Examples with animated solutions in the detailed announcement or use PDF file to print out.

Welcome to participate! – Julia

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shankar ram
shankar ram
June 18, 2015 14:31

Whoa! Now Latvia joins the club with it’s drink!
(btw, No Mohito, Julia? ;-))

shankar ram
shankar ram
June 18, 2015 14:41

An interesting concoction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga_Black_Balsam
An ad also says: “If you haven’t tasted it, you haven’t been in Riga!”

seetharaman
seetharaman
June 20, 2015 21:05

Reminds me of a problem of T.R.Dawson!

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