The arrows of St Sebastian – Award

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StSebastienThe arrows of St Sebastian – Award

“Dear chessfriends, I was very glad to receive 36 arrows from 13 composers: Stephan Dietrich, Maryan Kerhuel, Ralf Kraetschmer, Rainer Kuhn, Ingemar Lind, Juraj Lorinc, Karol Mlynka, Dieter Muller, Cornell Pacurar, Adrian Storisteanu, Pierre Tritten, Paul Raican, Jaroslav Stun.

I decided to divide the tourney in two sections. Section A, the most numerous for the problems using fairy piece(s) or/and condition(s) and Section B for the “orthodox” problems.” (Sebastien Luce, the judge)

The Award (PDF) | Announcement with examples (PDF)

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JF-LOGO-1Now you can easily find any problem published on JF by its number. The search by other criteria, like Author, Stipulation, Fairy elements is also improved. For any entry field you can use either the whole name of the parameter, or a part of it using ‘%’ for any symbol in the beginning, end or the middle of it. The Search page is the first option under “Original Problems” top menu. Bug reports are welcome! 🙂

Originals 07-120216

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7-12th of February, 2016

  • (12.02) No.1004.1 – Michael Grushko (ser-h#11; Circe Rex Inclusive; Castling Chess; Grasshopper). An improvement to No.1004, composed after comments.
  • (12.02) No.1005, 1006 – S.N. Ravi Shankar. C- problems as All-in Chess condition is not implemented yet: No.1005 (#4; All-in Chess; Sentinels); No.1006 (#6; All-in Chess; Relegation Chess).
  • (11.02) No.1003, 1004 – Michael Grushko. Castling Chess for the first time on JF in the both problems: No.1003 (ser-h#12; Circe Rex Inclusive; Castling Chess); No.1004 (ser-h#8; Circe Rex Inclusive; Castling Chess; Grasshopper).
  • (09.02) Fairings No.47 by Chris Feather, distributed by Stephen Emmerson, is added to the Articles section!
  • (09.02) No.1002 – Cornel Pacurar (-2 & #1 Proca Retractor; Anti-Circe Assassin). “A Proca Retractor employing, for the first time, the Anticirce Assassin condition!” (Author).
  • (07.02) No.959.2 – Ján Kovalič & Ladislav Packa (h#2; Take & Make). One more improvement to No.959. As the initial problem, No.959, relates to the previous period, JF-2015/II, I’ve agreed with the judge of it, Ofer Comay, that the improvement will be related to that period as well.

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

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1-3rd of February, 2016

  • (03.02) No.1001 – Georgy Evseev (hs#3.5; Phantom Chess; KoBul Kings).
  • (02.02) No.1000– Vlaicu Crișan (h#4.5; PWC; Contra-Grashopper; Rose-Locust). Unbelievably, we have no.1000 here, on JF, thanks to all of you, my dear authors! 
  • (01.02) No.999 – Sébastien Luce (h=5; Anti-Circe; Grashopper; Locust). “A gift for Julia and her wonderful website!“ (Author). Published with a gratitude! (JV)

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All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

Originals 30-310116

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30-31st of January, 2016

  • (31.01) No.998 – Anatoly Stepochkin (s#6; Maximummer; KoKo; Lion).
  • (31.01) No.996, 997 – Erich Bartel: No.996 (ser-=18; Circe File; Disparate); No.997 (ser-s#19; Circe Equipollents; Alphabetic Chess; Berolina Pawn).
  • (30.01) No.993, 994, 995 – Karol Mlynka: No.993 (#3; White Super-Transmuting King; Royal Nightrider-Locust); No.994 (h#2; White Super-Transmuting King; Rose); No.995 (hs=2; Circe Turncoats; Anti-Circe; White Super-Transmuting King; Royal Locust; Rook-Locust).

Animated diagrams use Py2Web by Dmitri Turevski and WinChloe’s graphics.

All previously published problems you can find in the subsections of Original Problems menu on the top. The judge of informal fairy tournament JF-2016(I) – Petko A. Petkov. The judge of Retro and PG problems 2015-2016 – Thomas Brand.

Krassimir Gandev – 70 JT 2016

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logo-kobulchesskrassimir-gandevKrassimir Gandev – 70 JT 2016

On 21st March 2016 the Bulgarian maestro IM Krassimir Gandev will celebrate his 70th Anniversary. The website for Chess Composition KoBulChess.com announces the “Krassimir Gandev – 70” JT 2016.

Theme: Fairy problems type #, H#, S#, HS#, =, H=, S=, HS=, ==, H=, S=, HS== in 2-4 moves and Series or Parry Series in 2-8 moves with Hurdle Colour Changing pieces. Other fairy pieces or conditions are not allowed.

Please send your entries by email: gandev70@abv.bg |  Deadline: 21.03.2016 | Judge: Krassimir Gandev 

The Award will be published on KoBulChess.com till 31.03.2016 |  Announcement with examples, PDF

Contacting Peter Harris?

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894-phDear Friends, Editors, I need your help, please! You all might know how many problems by Peter Harris I’ve published on JF. It’s about 125, since July, 2012 (no.39) when I started to publish original problems on JF. The last mail I’ve got from Peter was on the 13th of September, 2015 with 4 problems, asking to publish the three of them dedicated to the judges first (no.890,891,892 for Vlaicu Crisan, Dmitri Turevski, Kjell Widlert) and the one for me, on my birthday, a few days later  (no.894). During these three years Peter had some periods of active composing and some pauses too, but not for 4 months.. Anyway, even without a new compositions, Peter would answer my mails with Diplomas for the recently rewarded problems if he would be well, I believe. The last weeks I’ve sent some more mails to Peter and also to his email provider, Vodamail (no answer); sms-es to his phone, and tried to call him too, but there’s answering machine only. I don’t have any contacts of Peter’s friends or relatives to ask about him. Maybe anybody has? Maybe anybody has heard anything from Peter after September, 2015? I believe, we must find out what we can about Peter. Thank you! – Julia

WCCI 2013-2015: 2 days left

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wfcc-logo-transparentJust 2 days left to submit your entries to  the 2013-15 WCCI. The tourney director is Dmitry Turevsky (email: dmitri.turevski@gmail.com). Participants may submit their entries by January 20, 2016. See the list of Received entries at wfcc.ch website.

Judges for Fairies & Retros: 

G) Fairies: Juraj Brabec (SVK), Aleksandr Bulavka (BLR), Georgy Evseev (RUS), Petko Petkov (BUL), Kjell Widlert (SWE)

H) Retros: Dmitry Baibikov (ISR), Nicolas Dupont (FRA), Andrey Frolkin (UKR), Bernd Graefrath is generic cialis just as good (GER), Kostas Prentos (GRE)

Theoretical Articles 36 Comments

gw-JF885-retractor-articleHow to solve defensive retractors under the condition of AntiCirce

by Günther Weeth, Stuttgart

Shortly after the fabulous start of that successful story of the Proca retractor under the condition of AntiCirce Wolfgang Dittmann dealt with the question of how to approach that new type as a solver. He laid down a summary of methods that might pave the way to the solution of problems of that kind in two articles: Die Schwalbe, vol. 204, December 2003, “Lösungsstrategien im Verteidigungsrückzüger mit Anticirce-Bedingung”) and – as a supplement – in Die Schwalbe, vol. 207, June 2004 where he provides valuable information concerning the testing program “Pacemaker” established by Thomas Kolkmeyer. Since then the fairy condition of “AntiCirce” has not only stood its ground in the field of the Proca retractor but also in a wider range of retro problems. The new type has been welcomed by a small number of highly motivated solvers, even so by such solvers being somewhat reluctant to tackle it in the first two or three years of its existence. →The Article (PDF, 8 pages)

KoBulChess Informal Tourneys 2016

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The website KoBulChess announces Informal Tourneys 2016 for the sections:

Twomovers (#2), the judge: Eugene Rosner (USA)

Threemovers (#3), the judge: Evgeni Bourd (Israel)

Helpmates (H#2), the judge: Shankar Ram (India)

Helpmates (H#n), the judge: Petko Petkov (Bulgaria)

Selfmates (S#), the judge: Ivan Soroka (Ukraine)

Fairies, the judge: Kjell Widlert (Sweden)