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Fairy chess composition

New judge for JF-2013/II – Sébastien Luce

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A good news!! JF has a new judge for the competition JF-2013/II as a replacement to Diyan Kostadinov appointed before – Sébastien Luce!

I’m grateful to Sébastien (France) for kindly offering his help. Some words from Sébastien I am glad to share with you:

Born 1963, playing OTB chess intensively since being eight, including World junior championship in 1982. International Master since 1990, five times French team champion with Clichy. Progressively stopped competitions to become a professional chess trainer. Beginning composing in 2012, with a complete opus of more than 2500 problems (not all published yet), mainly in fairies.

I like paradoxes, and would like to present myself as a composer with the only orthodox #3 I have produced. It is a Plachutta Azerbaïdjan.

I saw on JF the demand of Julia to judge the Part II of JF 2013, after the resignation of the previous judge. I accepted with pleasure ! 

🙂

FINAL Award JF-2019/II by Petko Petkov

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On the occasion of the awarding of the Julias Fairies 2019-II, judge Petko A. Petkov announces the following: “In II. TANAGRA SECTION, by the request of the author, Daniel Papack, the 2nd Prize problem is eliminated from the competition. Problem by Daniel Novomeski( -/Ke3, h#4.5 ) gets the 2nd Prize, and problem by Geoff Foster (Kg2/Ka4, h#2.5) gets the 3rd Prize. Since there are no other changes, the Award with the specified correction should be considered final.”

Preliminary Award JF-2019-II is replaced with the FINAL Award JF-2019-II on the Tournaments page.

Attention! The recent issue of ANDA FAIRY PLANET No.5 (June 2023) by Petko Petkov is added to the Articles page.

RIFACE 2023 : composing tournaments

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The 44th RIFACE (International Meeting in France for Chess Problems Lovers) will take place, as usual, during the Pentecost week-end, from Friday, May 26th, 2023 (evening) to Monday, May 29th, 2023 (noon). We stay close to Paris, but this time in Gennevilliers, Hôtel Ibis Paris Gennevilliers.

PAY ATTENTION : the French Chess Solving Championship is registered for the World Solving Cup 2022-2023 and will take place Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 2 PM.

Themes of composing tournaments:

Thème aidés.pdf | Thème féerique.pdf | Thème rétro.pdf

Address to send the entries : RIFACE.2023@gmail.com for Helpmates and Fairies;
retro.riface2023@gmail.com for retro problems. Time limit to send the entries : Sunday 28th May at 15:00 (French time)

Originals May 2023

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JF Original Problems | May, 2023

The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A

Dear composers, I still have no judge for PG & Retro tournament, Retro & PG problems 2023-2024, I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job!
Also, I have to admit that the judge of JF-2013-II, Diyan Kostadinov, has to be replaced as he doesn’t seem to deliver the award ever. Again, I’d appreciate it a lot if anybody can overtake it!
The award of JF-2020-I by Eric Huber is expected in 2024.

  • (25.05) No.1752 (ser-h#13 ; Circe) – Paz Einat – “I am not a fan of miniatures nor of model mates, but when magic happens to include both – it certainly adds value.” Warm welcome to Paz after a long break from 2015!
  • (25.05) No.1751 (phser-dia33) – Paul Rãican & Dmitrij Baibikov – Parry-series proofgame with white moving last.
  • (18.05) No.1750 (h#2.5 ; Phantom Chess) – Hein Verduin – Warm welcome to Hein in Original Problems section of JF!
  • (18.05) No.1749 (h#2.5 ; Anti-Kings) – Michael McDowell – “It seems to be an original combination of fairy condition and theme.”
  • (18.05) No.1748 (h#2 ; illegal/shadow piece) – János Csák & Béla Majoros – different solutions in the twins, b) bPc5<–>bPd5. Same as for the problem No.1718 (June,2022) it is referred to the Retro&PG section if no objections.

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson

Originals April 2023

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JF Original Problems | April, 2023

The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A

Dear composers, I still have no judge for PG & Retro tournament, I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job.

The order of publication might be not the same as in the waiting list: the problems easy to test and to animate, C+, and those without additional questions to composers will go first.

  • (30.04) No.1747 (PG 9) – Velmurugan Nallusamy – “Dedicated to my dear wife – Sneha”.
  • (29.04) No.1746 (#2 ; Edgehog) – Hubert Gockel – “Threat reduction and return (as variant mates).”
  • (09.04) No.1745 (s=5) – Kurt Keller – “Happy Easter to all Julia’s Fairies readers!”
  • (08.04) No.1744 (hs#2) – Julia Vysotska – Composed for the 49th Latvian Chess Solving Championship (a part of WSC cup), which took place today. Solved by only one person out of 15 (Latvians and Lithuanians). Is it too difficult for fairy composers too? 🙂 Dedicated to Marjan Kovačević for his birthday today!

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson

Originals March 2023

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JF Original Problems | March, 2023

The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman
The judge of Retro & PG problems 2023-2024: N/A

Dear composers, I still have no judge for PG & Retro tournament, and I’d be grateful to the one who is willing to accept this job.

If you sent me a problem, but don’t see your name in the list below, please write me! Please don’t send me more than 1 problem at one time and don’t send the next one before the previous is published! Thank you!
The order of publication might be not the same as in the waiting list: the problems easy to test and to animate, C+, and those without additional questions to composers will go first.

To be published in April: Kurt Keller, Paul Rãican, Hubert Gockel

  • (31.03) No.1743 (A=>B in 13, Upside-Down Chess) – Kevin Begley – “Dedicated to Michel Caillaud Super-AUW for both white (QSRBQ) and black (qbsrq)…” . Warm welcome to Kevin! The presentation of inverted diagram is still under further improvement, but I’m glad to announce this original in March.
  • (31.03) No.1742 (reci-hs(=)#5.5) – Torsten Linß – “It’s dedicated to Shankar Ram and another example for a possible follow up on his much discussed reciprocal article. “
  • (31.03) No.1741 (pser-s#10 ; Superpawn, Berolina Super Pawn, Lion) – János Mikitovics – “black & white batteries, rundlauf, selfpin, selfunpin, excelsiors, Meredith”
  • (31.03) No.1740 (hs#4 ; Neutral piece, Zebra, Leaper(2,4) ; Anti-Circe, Circe) – Franz Pachl – ” … reciprocal captures of the fairy-pieces in the selfmate by doublecheck”
  • (31.03) No.1739 (hs#2 ; Isardam, Mars Circe) – Manfred Rittirsch – C+ by WinChloe, different interpretation of this combination of conditions by Popeye.
  • (30.03) No.1738 (-4&#1 Proca ; AntiCirce Cheylan, Circe) – Klaus Wenda & Andreas Thoma – “Type Cheylan to exclude the move ..”

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe‘s graphics, Christian Poisson

The judge of JF-2023: K. Seetharaman

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Dear composers, I’m happy to announce our judge for informal fairy tournament JF-2023 – the well known Indian composer Seetharaman Kalyan! I believe everybody knew Seetharaman as one of the most active members of chess problem society. Have to mention that Seetharaman was also one of the first visitors of just created Julia’sFairies website in April 2012, the one who was always ready to comment some new publications, to support any new ideas. Currently Seetharaman is editing fairy section of The Problemist. One of his most known inventions is Super Guards fairy condition (2012; 14 problems with SuperGuards published on JF). Composes problems in all genres. Age 74.

I’m very grateful to Seetharaman for his support and his good will in doing this job for JF!