Originals 04-070514

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4-7th of May, 2014:

  • (07.05) No.542 – Chris Feather – Nice thematic S-mates, surprising B-promotion! (I’ve got this problem by postal mail today. If anybody is in touch with Chris – please send him my greetings!)
  • (06.05) No.509.3 – Henryk Grudzinski  & Paul Rãican – PG 9,5; Take&Make – Another version of the complicated idea shown in No.509. Nice to see the joint work!
  • (06.05) No.541 – Michal Dragoun – Very interesting and complicated Anti-Circe play! (h#2; Lions)
  • (05.05) No.540 – Julia Vysotska – A play of two Rabbits for solvers! Although, in one phase, but  I hope that maneuvers of my Rabbits are enough complicated and pleasant at the same time.  
  • (04.05) No.509.2 – Henryk Grudzinski – PG 9,5; Take&Make – one more improvement to No.509 published on March, 7th

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(II)Dmitri Turevski. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 010514

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1st of May, 2014:

The first day of informal tournament JF-2014/II! Warm welcome to the authors and the judge! Good luck to everybody in this period!

Two problems of today with a very rich content:

  • (01.05) No.539 – Vlaicu Crișan – Proca Retractor which by author’s words might be one of the most difficult Proca Retractors Circe Assassin he has composed!
  • (01.05) No.538 – Petko A. Petkov – A non-standard Disparate #2 showing author’s favorite theme in the genre Disparate-promotions!

dominika-daniela-chessToday the weather in Riga was cold and rainy, and while I was busy with a site, preparing publications and trying to understand the problems, my daughters have got even more complicated position! (Dominika, 6 years (left), Daniela, 9,5 years (right))


All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(II)Dmitri Turevski. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 300414

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30th of April, 2014:

The last day of informal tournament JF-2014/I! If more problems come until midnight, I’ll publish them tomorrow, but will include into this tournament. For now two very interesting Marine problems by Luis Miguel Martín close this period:

  • No.536 – Reciprocal self-blocks between black Sirens with cyclic motives!
  • No.537 – A nice reciprocal play of two Marine Knights!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I)Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


End of JF-2014/I & start of JF-2014/II

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Dear Friends,

Today, on the 30th of April, is the last day of the first informal tournaments of this year – JF-2014/I. I will check again all published problems and versions participating in the tournament, but for now I’d like to tell thanks a lot to all participants for a very good problems! I believe it’s a strong tournament, and I hope that our judge, Vlaicu Crișan, will enjoy his work!

As I’ve written in the post of January,1st, this year I’ve decided keep the same system as in 2013, and to split the  informal tourneys for fairy problems published on Julia’s Fairies website into 3 periods and independent tourneys: 
I – January-April, II – May-August, III – September-December. 


You’re welcome to participate in the second informal tournament – JF-2014/II, May-August, 2014!
Any fairy problem can participate, and I’m here for you to publish it as soon as I can, usually in 1-2 days.

dturevskiI’m happy to introduce you the judge of this period – Dmitri Turevski – a talented Russian composer successfully participating in many strong competitions, a developer of the popular Linux/Windows graphical user interface to Popeye – Olive, and also of a chess problem database – YACPDB! Warm welcome to Dmitri! 


Originals 25-290414

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25-29th of April, 2014:

  • (29.04) No.535 – Kenneth Solja – Interesting four-men with a “leapfrog of two Locusts”!
  • (28.04) No.534 – Eric Huber – A very nice Tanagra with combination of two fairy conditions! Enjoy detailed author’s comments!
  • (27.04) No.533 – Sébastien Luce – А difficult four-men with exotic fairy Bishops!
  • (26.04) No.532 – Ján Golha – A Four-men Aristocrat with Echo-play!
  • (25.04) No.531 – Pierre Tritten – Multiple interchange of functions in Take & Make problem!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I)Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 15-210414

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15-21th of April, 2014:

  • (21.04) No.530 – Karol Mlynka  – Non-standard AUW with a use of royal neutral Pawn!
  • (18.04) No.529 – Rainer Kuhn  – Welcome to a new author with a nice Tanagra problem with two fairy conditions!
  • (16.04) No.528 – Nicolas Dupont  – A big surprise! The first PG problem with Disparate condition!
  • (15.04) No.527 – Daniel Novomesky – An elegant Tanagra-Aristocrat with excellent Isardam effects!
  • (15.04) Fairings No.37 by Chris Feather is added to the Articles section. The guests of this issue are: Geoff Foster and Klaus Wenda

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I)Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


Originals 100414 & 2 years of Julia’sFairies

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10th of April, 2014:

Today Julia’sFairies website celebrates its 2 years! And this morning I’m happy to publish and to show you this composition by IGM Petko Petkov:

  • (10.04) No.526 – An excellent Disparate composition, model mates, thematic try-play and instructive detailed comment by the author! The problem is dedicated to me, with author’s comment “in a honor of the two-years anniversary of Julia’sFairies website and successful creative work”. Thank you so much, dear Petko

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I)Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber. 


ANDON PETKOV – 100 MT

ann-apetkov-100mtANDON PETKOV – 100 MT
announced by Petko A. Petkov:

To mark the 100th anniversary of birth of my father, Andon Petkov, and the 70th anniversary of his tragic death, I announce

An international tournament for composing of HS#(HS=, HS==) problems

on the theme: HS# with a use of fairy elements – fairy pieces, or(and) fairy conditions – in two sections – a) Problems up to 3 moves; b) Problems in more than 3 moves.

All originals should be computer tested with any of the following programs: Popeye, WinChloe, Alybadix. Please send your originals by e-mail till October 1st, 2014, to the following address: Petko Petkov, ppetkov2702@gmail.com

The award will be published by the end of 2014.

Originals 01-020414

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1st-2nd of April, 2014:

  • (02.04) No.525 – Andreas Thoma – An interesting Retro created with Pawns only! Congratulations to Andreas with the first publication in Original Problems section of JF!
  • (01.04) No.524 – Michael Grushko – A four-men typical for Israeli maestro!

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of  Original Problems menu on the top. The judge for informal fairy tourney 2014(I)Vlaicu Crișan. The judge for Retro and PG problems 2013 – 2014Hans Gruber.